"Leadership is not communicating what we need. Leadership is communicating what we can contribute."
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"Would anybody be offended if we gave a $150 million bonus to Gandhi? How about a $250 million bonus to Mother Teresa? Do we have an issue with that? None at all. None at all. Great leaders would never sacrifice the people to save the numbers. They would sooner sacrifice the numbers to save the people."
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"The irony is, the advertising industry knows everyone hates what they produce. This is why they keep looking for new ways to force people to stay tuned."
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"We call them leaders because they go first, because they take the risk before anybody else does, because they will choose to sacrifice so their people will be safe and protected."
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"It's better to do it than to talk about how perfect it could be."
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"There are two kinds of experts: academic experts and practical experts. One is not better than the other, but they are very different, and each offers very different value."
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"To become an academic expert takes years of studying. Academic experts are experts in how and what others have done. They use case studies and observation to understand a subject."
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"Leadership is not a rank or a position, it is a choice - a choice to look after the person to the left of us & the person to the right of us."
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"When I was in college, my school newspaper accepted an ad from a Holocaust revisionist organization. This would have been offensive on most college campuses across the country, but I went to a school with a very large Jewish population, so the ad, as you might expect, stirred absolute outrage."
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"When we can communicate from the inside out, we're talking directly to the part of the brain that controls behavior, and then we allow people to rationalize it with the tangible things we say and do. This is where gut decisions come from."
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"Entrepreneurs must be practical experts. They needn't set out to be subject matter experts in what they do; they must set out to solve a problem or pursue some cause or purpose greater than themselves."
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"Academic experts may not be good at doing what they are experts in themselves, but they are good at explaining the subject matter to others. They write books, teach courses and offer lessons and give steps others can follow."
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"I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I wasn't flying as much."
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"Instead of showing up to let everyone know how great we are, show up to find out how great everyone else is."
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"Stress and anxiety at work have less to do with the work we do and more to do with weak management and leadership."
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"Any parent who tells their kids that they can't attend a school play or go to a soccer match because they have to work is kidding themselves. It's OK to miss a game or two or a performance here and there, but it's not all right to miss the majority of them."
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"Notoriously outspoken, his sentences always punctuated with profanities, General George S. Patton was the epitome of what a leader should be like - or so he thought. Patton believed a leader should look and act tough, so he cultivated his image and his personality to match his philosophy."
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"Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates."
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"I try to find, celebrate and teach leaders how to build platforms that will inspire others."
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"Most politicians are not authentic."
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