Quotes

Start treating teams, not individuals, as the fundamental building blocks of the organization.

Adam Grant – Professor of organizational psychology at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Your title makes you a manager. Your people make you a leader.

Donna Dubinsky

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Alvin Tofler

That’s your responsibility as a person, as a human being – to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as possible. And if you don’t contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you’re not thinking.

Malcolm Gladwell

The thing to do, when you don’t know, is not to bluff and not to freeze, but to learn. The way you learn is by experiment—or, as Buckminster Fuller put it, by trial and error, error, error.

Donella H. Meadows, Diana Wright – Thinking in Systems: A Primer

Many of the other skills of management can be delegated, but not coaching. The path to success in a fast-moving, highly competitive, technology-driven business world is to form high-performing teams and give them the resources and freedom to do great things. And an essential component of high-performing teams is a leader who is both a savvy manager and a caring coach.

Eric Schmidt (former Google CEO) – Trillion Dollar Coach

You have priorities, whether you name them or not. If you want to grow, you’d better name them, and you’d better name the behaviors that support the priorities.

Daniel Coyle – The Culture Code

If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don’t take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.

Nassim Taleb

People with humility don’t think less of themselves – they think about themselves less.

Ken Blanchard

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Ernest Hemingway

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams

We hope that you are thinking about how to make your team great, and how you can propel yourself to be great, to go beyond your self-imposed limits. Because the world faces many challenges and they can only be solved by teams. Those teams need coaches.

Eric Schmidt (former Google CEO) – Trillion Dollar Coach

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

Gen. Colin Powell