Quotes About Growth

Commit to Spend the Time Needed to Develop Leaders:

Find someone to mentor. Once you reach a certain level in your leadership, the most valuable thing you have to give is yourself. Find someone to pour your life into. Then give him time and resources to become a better leader.

1. The Assumption Gap—"I Assume That I Will Automatically Grow

Do something you hate every day, just for the practice.

People who make growth their goal—instead of a title, position, salary, or other external target—always have a future.

Successful leaders help their people find their right seats. Sometimes that requires moving people around to find where they make the greatest contribution. Sometimes it means trying and failing. As a leader, you have to take it all in stride. Positioning people correctly is a process, and you have to treat it that way.

Playwright George Bernard Shaw asserted, "A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

We are all failures—at least, all the best of us are. —J. M. BARRIE W

The best way to develop rational, well-balanced confidence is to go after a few victories immediately following a failure.

If we're not failing or making mistakes, it means we're playing it too safe.

A leader who loves the status quo soon becomes a follower.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Poet Lord Byron was right when he stated, "Adversity is the first path to truth.

ARE YOU CONTENT WITH THE STATUS QUO, OR ARE YOU WILLING TO TAKE RISKS TO GAIN HIGHER LEVELS OF ACHIEVEMENT?

Cuando las personas cometen errores, generalmente hacen una de tres cosas como respuesta a ellos: deciden no volver a cometer nunca otro error, lo cual es imposible. Permiten que su error los convierta en cobardes, lo cual es necio. O deciden aprender de su error y aplicar la lección a su vida, lo cual es beneficioso.

If you want to tap into your discernment potential, work in your areas of strength.

What is the greatest lesson you have learned? By asking this question I seek their wisdom. What are you learning now? This question allows me to benefit from their passion. How has failure shaped your life? This question gives insight into their attitude.

you must be interested in finding the best way, not in having your own way.

Education makes all the difference.

Are you at the head of your class? If so, then you're in the wrong class.

What's worse than training your people and losing them? Not training them and keeping them.

Un carácter débil limita a una persona.

Failure is inevitable; learning is optional

Los puntos críticos pueden proveer perspectiva, que es la capacidad de ver los cambios mayores dentro del marco de una vida entera y dejar que actúe el poder sanador del tiempo.