Quotes from Susan Scott

As a leader, you get what you tolerate. People do not repeat behavior unless it is rewarded.

Do you view your relationship as something to be endured for the sake of the kids, or because you don't want to be alone, or because you don't think you could do better?  Or do you view your relationship, even with its imperfections, as a worthwhile work in progress?  How would your view influence how you interact with your partner, what you do, what you say?  What results would those interactions produce?

The first thing the attendees saw when they walked in was a poster with the question "What are our mokitas?"—a Papua New Guinea word for that which everyone knows and no one will speak of: the elephant in the room.

Seeking out people with different views, different perspectives, different ideas is often challenging, because it requires us to set aside judgment and open our minds. But we have to remind ourselves that to get beyond where we are, where I believe most of us are, we would all be be well served to choose our music carefully, to stop talking and listen to one another.

I have not yet witnessed a spontaneous recovery from incompetence.

Burnout…occurs because we're trying to solve the same problem over and over.

Principle 4: Tackle your toughest challenge today. Burnout doesn't occur because we're solving problems; it occurs because we've been trying to solve the same problem over and over. The problem named is the problem solved. Identify and then confront the real obstacles in your path. Stay current with the people important to your success and happiness. Travel light, agenda-free.

Our power as individuals is multiplied when we gather together as families, teams, and communities with common goals.

People feel disrespected when they show up and others don't. The message received is that those who arrive late value their own time more than that of their colleagues.

Once you achieve intimacy and connection, I predict that innovation, partnership, execution and success won't be far behind.

Has a sense of humor. (Preferably warped.) We know who we are

I want us all to stop thinking only in terms of accomplishments, of task and completion, of beating the competition, of gathering income and merchandise, of winning praise, and instead, live our lives forging the deepest relationships we can with ourselves and with one another. i want us to respond to adversity by deepening our engagement in our lives. It isn't complicated.

Ask yourself, "How did I get here? How is it that I find myself in a company, a role, a relationship, or a life from which I've absented my spirit? How did I lose my way?

If you are open, vulnerable, disclosing, more likely than not it will be reciprocated and walls will come down.

Accountable Authentic Collaborative Courageous Passionate Lifelong learner Welcomes feedback Biased toward action Solution oriented Change agent

In Henry David Thoreau's Walden, written during his year in a one-room cabin with few possessions, is this quote: "The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life that is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

The problem named is the problem solved.

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Maya Angelou said, "When someone shows you who he is, believe him the first time." Or her.  What we do is who we are.  When someone says, "That's not me," after doing something or saying something hurtful, they are mistaken.  That is them.  That is exactly them or at least a part of them and it may be a part of them that you do not want in your life.

The opposite of love isn't hate.  It's indifference, lethal neutrality, apathy.  You don't care. Instead of energy there's malaise, inertia. Instead of chemistry there's emptiness. Instead of substance there's frivolousness. The relationship is all but dead.

A leader's job is to get it right for the organization, not to be right.

What matters anywhere in your organization, matters everywhere in your organization.

What is needed now is for leaders to become more open, more flexible, less egoistic and less hypocritical. We must loosen our death grip on whatever we believe to be the truth simply because it is how we want the truth to look. We must be honest with ourselves and invite honesty from others.

The truth will set you free - but first it may thoroughly irritate you.