The Complete 101 Collection: What Every Leader Needs to Know

Ken Blanchard says, “There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you are interested in doing something, you do it only when it is convenient. When you are committed to something, you accept no excuses.” Don’t equip people who are merely interested. Equip the ones who are committed.

You can’t turn people loose without structure, but you also want to give them enough freedom to be creative. The way to do that is to give them the big three: responsibility, authority, and accountability.

The ability to find another’s seed of success takes commitment, diligence, and a genuine desire to focus on others. You have to look at the person’s gifts, temperament, passions, successes, joys, and opportunities. And once you find that seed, you need to fertilize it with encouragement and water it with opportunity. If you do, the person will blos

Ben Franklin set aside time every day to review two questions. In the morning he asked himself, “What good shall I do today?” In the evening he asked, “What good have I done today?”

The BEST mentoring leaders are encouragers.

But you don’t have to be a remarkable or unusually talented person to mentor others.

there are really two kinds of leaders: those who attract followers and those who attract other leaders.

When I teach leadership seminars, I always teach what’s known as the Pareto (80/20) Principle: In a nutshell, it says that if you focus your attention on the top 20 percent in anything you do, you will get an 80 percent return.

Make the goals measurable. Your potential leaders will never know when they have achieved their goals if they aren’t measurable.

Put the goals in writing. When people write down their goals, it makes them more accountable for those goals.