Vision is knowing who you are, where you're going, and what will guide your journey.
Ken BlanchardRead
The best minute you spend is the one you invest in people
Interpretation
Investing time in people leads to stronger connections and personal fulfillment.
This quote emphasizes the importance of investing time in relationships with others. By dedicating even just a minute to engage, support, or connect with people, we enrich our lives and foster deeper bonds that contribute significantly to our happiness and well-being.
In practice
During a team meeting, you might say, 'Remember, the best minute you spend is the one you invest in people.'
Vision is knowing who you are, where you're going, and what will guide your journey.
One of the topics I'm most passionate about is servant leadership - the greatest leaders recognize that they're here to serve, not to be served.
Servant-leader ship is all about making the goals clear and then rolling your sleeves up and doing whatever it takes to help people win. In that situation, they don't work for you, you work for them.
Congratulations offer more potential than cash. The amount of available cash is limited, but managers have an unlimited supply of congratulations. It's important to pay people fairly, but managers also should heap on congratulations and feed people's souls.
If your employees are disengaged, and they don't take care of your customers, it doesn't matter how good your strategy is - your customers will still go somewhere else.
The biggest obstacle that stalls leaders' growth is the human ego. When leaders start to think they know it all, they stop growing.
Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.
A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.
What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me?
I think that even though some of the things on 'Humans of New York' are kind of very personal and very revealing, I think the discomfort with sharing that tends to be overwritten by the appreciation of being able to distill the experience of your life into a story and share it with other people.
Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything
It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply liked to feel that she was prevented from leaving, that she was needed.
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