"In general, organizations are afraid to fire customers, no matter how unreasonable. This is a mistake. It's good for you."
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"All organizations start with WHY, but only the great ones keep their WHY clear year after year."
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"Truly human leadership protects an organization from the internal rivalries that can shatter a culture. When we have to protect ourselves from each other, the whole organization suffers. But when trust and cooperation thrive internally, we pull together and the organization grows stronger as a result."
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"Leadership is a choice. It's not a rank, it's a choice. I know many people who are at the top of their organization who have authority. We have to do what they say because they have authority over us. But they're not leaders. We wouldn't follow them. They may be at the top of the company but they're not leaders."
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"Leaders, whatever the size of their organizations, are those willing to put the interests of other people before their own."
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"The leader's job is to lead and protect. Not have all the answers, not know everything to do, not to micromanage and tell people what to do or how to do it. A leader's job is to lead and protect. That's their job, and it's the people within the organization - their job is to get the work done."
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"It's always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win."
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"Those who lead inspire us Whether they are individuals or organizations, we follow those who lead not because we have to but because we want to."
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"All the great organizations in the world, all have a sense of why that organization does what it does."
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"Great leaders and great organizations are good at seeing what most of us can’t see. They are good at giving us things we would never think of asking for."
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"Organizations should say and do the things they ACTUALLY believe."
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"People have accused me of only working with good companies. No I don't. I work with some very dysfunctional companies or unbelievably dysfunctional organizations. The people that bring me in know what they're doing won't work for the future. They know they want to change and they want to change for the right reasons. They believe what I believe and that's why they called me."
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"I'm up here in Cleveland tonight and there are a lot of folks who are concerned about it. Twenty-five percent of the people up here get their health care through religious organizations and so that religious freedom issue is very important to them."
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"Management capability is always less than the organization actually needs."
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"Once your leaders get corrupted one way or another, it's hard to stop the organization from being corrupted."
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"I've seen, all too often in my career, people coming in to lead agencies and organizations and trying to impose change from the top down. Never works. You never have enough time."
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"I've always competed in those shows. Like, I won 'Fear Factor', I did 'I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here', I did 'The Mole', 'Celebrity Apprentice' with Donald Trump. I've done a lot of those shows, all in the hope of being a blessing to my mom's organization."
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"Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don't forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization."
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"Trust is the glue in relationships and organizations"
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"Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for."
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