The first job of a leader—at work or at home—is to inspire trust. It’s to bring out the best in people by entrusting them with meaningful stewardships, and to create an environment in which high-trust interaction inspires creativity and possibility.


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Start with the end in mind.
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There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy.
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Interdependency follows independence.
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You can say 'No' and smile only when there is a bigger 'Yes' burning inside of you.
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Synergy is almost as if a group collectively agrees to subordinate old scripts and to write a new on...
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We see the world, not as it is, but as we areor, as we are conditioned to see it.
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Principles are the territory. Values are maps. When we value correct principles, have trutha knowled...
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One of the best parts of being a family is that you can encourage one another. You can believe in on...
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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the...
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Any time you think the problem is out there, that very thought is the problem.
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Plante uma idéia, colha uma ação; plante uma ação, colha um hábito; plante um hábito, colha u...
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If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.
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The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic p...
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Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.
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All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation ...
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It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the business of life, to work harder a...
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If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong pl...
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I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a "transformer" in any situation...
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We accomplish all that we do through delegation -- either to time or to other people.
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The ''Inside-Out'' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with se...
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Nothing is more exciting and bonding in relationships than creating together
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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. An...
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Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harv...
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When you listen with empathy to another person, you give that person psychological air.
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In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
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We may be very busy, we may be very efficient, but we will also be truly effective only when we begi...
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The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
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We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations
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There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
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Priority is a function of context.
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