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"Employees are given the chance to help shape their company by participating in a company-wide communications program making suggestions on waste reduction, environmental improvement, customer satisfaction, quality improvement, and safety issues."
"When we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other."
"Before a performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone". Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you."
"Empathic listening is so powerful because it gives you accurate data to work with. Instead of projecting your own autobiography and assuming thoughts, feelings, motives and interpretation, you're dealing with the reality inside another person's head and heart. You're listening to understand. You're focused on receiving the deep communication of another human soul."
"The great contributors in life are those who, though afraid of the knock at the door, still answer it."
"Trust is central to an economy that works."
"To judge individuals before understanding them is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself."
"As we create synergy among the roles of our lives, there's more of us to put into the time we have."
"Consult the wisdom of your heart as well as your mind."
"All things are created twice. All things. Vision is the first creation. For a house it's called the blueprint. For a life it's called a mission. For a day it's called a goal and a plan. For a parent it's called a belief in the unseen potential of a child. For all, it is the mental creation which always precedes the physical, or second, creation."
"By centering our lives on correct principles and creating a balanced focus between doing and increasing our ability to do, we become empowered to the task of creating effective useful and peaceful lives."
"It is extremely ironic that the more we care about what people think about us the less we care about people, and the less we care about what people think about us the more we begin to care for others"
"Those who get the most out of life and those who give the most are those who make the choice to act."
"Over time, I have come to this simple definition of leadership: Leadership is getting results in a way that inspires trust."
"...churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and projects that they become insensitive to the pressing human needs that sourround them, contradicting the very precepts they profess to believe deeply."
"Character grows in the soil of experience with the fertilization of example, the moisture of ambition, and the sunshine of satisfaction. Character cannot be purchased, bargained for, inherited, rented or imported from afar. It must be home-grown. Purely intellectual development without commensurate internal character development makes as much sense as putting a high-powered sports car in the hands of a teenager who is high on drugs. Yet all too often in the academic world, that's exactly what we do by not focusing on the character development of young people."
"Whether you're on a sports team, in an office or a member of a family, if you can't trust one another there's going to be trouble."
"Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other."
"If you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in some short-term, psych-up, superficial way."
"Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect."