Quotes About Growth

In order to be happy, human beings must feel they are continuing to grow. Clearly, we must adopt the concept of continuous improvement as a daily principle.

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

Knowledge people and service people learn the most when they teach .

I'll never give up on a player regardless of his ability as long as he never gives up on himself. In time he will develop.

The true leader makes each team member twice the person they were before.

Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.

Don't buy into the notion that mistakes can somehow be avoided. They can't be.

He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.

Leadership means realizing potential-in yourself and in the people you lead.... The leader and followers cocreate their identities and performance.

People have a reservoir of talent worth discovering. They just have to be given the opportunity to discover it in themselves

Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.

Innovation needs to be nurtured throughout an organization. Management is doing things right, whereas leadership is doing the right things.

I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.

Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary... But to survive, we must learn.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

While personal maturity may mean being able to see beyond yourself, leadership maturity means considering others before yourself.

In times of change, learners inherit the earth

A real leader has the ability to motivate others to their highest level of achievement; then gives them the opportunity and the freedom to grow.

The more seriously you take your growth, the more seriously your people will take you.

Winning companies win because they have good leaders who nurture the development of other leaders at all levels of the organization.

Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more.

Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

The responsibility of leadership is not to come up with all the ideas but to create an environment in which great ideas can thrive.