Love Works: Seven Timeless Principles for Effective Leaders
For values or guiding principles to be truly effective they have to be verbs. It’s not “integrity,” it’s “always do the right thing.” It’s not “innovation,” it’s “look at the problem from a different angle.” Articulating our values as verbs gives us a clear idea . . . we have a clear idea of how to act in any situation.
Simon Sinek • Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
The most meaningful relationships are achieved when you and others can speak openly to each other about everything that’s important, learn together, and understand the need to hold each other accountable to be as excellent as you can be. When you have such relationships with those you work with, you pull each other through challenging times; at the... See more
Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
• About 99% of the time, the right time is right now.
• No one is as impressed with your possessions as you are.
• Dont ever work for someone you dont want to become.
• Cultivate 12 people who love you, because they are worth more than 12 million people who like you.
• Dont keep making the same mistakes; try to make new mistakes.
• If you stop to listen
The Technium • 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
Success in the future will be based on the fuzzy intangibles: the way you speak as a leader, the culture you nurture, the processes for managing information you set up for your people, the partnerships you form around technology’s opportunities and challenges.