“Your dreams and the dreams of your company may be different, but they are in no way incompatible.” — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“The myth of management is that your personal values are irrelevant or inappropriate at work.” — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“Why live my personal values at work? This is an excellent question to ask. If your attorneys are planning an insanity defense.” — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“Management controls performance in people because it impacts skills; it’s a matter of monitoring, analyzing and directing.” — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“Work/life balance is not about escaping work. It’s about living exactly the way you want to when you’re at work.” — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence." (Harvard… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“Any expert will tell you that if you want emotionally committed relationships then people must be allowed to be true to who… — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“Companies should be the best possible place to practice fulfillment, to live out values and to realize deep connectivity and purpose.” — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“The company may have captured their minds, their bodies and their pockets, but that doesn’t mean it’s captured their hearts.” — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“Providing the ultimate solution to work/life balance: not escaping from work but living the way you want to at work.” — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the… — Grace Hopper Copy Share Image
“You don't have to fear your own company being perceived as human. You want it. People don't trust companies; they trust people.” — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“You can stuff yourself with emotional fulfillment until it’s dribbling down your chin & your ego will quickly chomp it down and… — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“This is your one and only precious life. Somebody’s going to decide how it’s going to be lived and that person had… — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“Here’s what you need to know most about leadership: Lead your own life first. The only thing in this world that will… — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“The first step out of the gate has to be knowing where you want to end up. What do you really want… — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“Leadership creates performance in people because it impacts willingness; it’s a matter of modeling, inspiring, and reinforcing.” — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“A manager’s emotional commitment is worth more than their financial, intellectual and physical commitment combined.” — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“Careful now: even a financially rewarding, intellectually stimulating work environment isn’t the same as living your own values.” — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“A company can’t buy true emotional commitment from managers no matter how much it’s willing to spend; this is something too valuable… — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“Managers know what they want most: to be allowed to achieve success by leveraging who they are, not by compromising it.” — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“What companies want most from their managers is what they most stop their managers from giving. What managers want most from their… — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it;… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
“To integrate one’s experiences around a coherent and enduring sense of self lies at the core of creating a user’s guide to… — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“The purpose of leadership is to change the world around you in the name of your values, so you can live those… — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
Over time, I have come to this simple definition of leadership: Leadership is getting results in a way that inspires trust. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“Success means: I want to know the work I do means something to somebody and helps make the world, if not a… — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“Most managers have plenty of emotional commitment to give to their jobs. If they can be convinced it’s safe and sensible to… — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“A manager’s emotional commitment is the ultimate trigger for their discretionary effort, worth more than financial, intellectual & physical commitment combined.” — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“Emotional commitment means unchecked, unvarnished devotion to the company and its success; any legendary organizational performance is the result of emotionally committed… — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“When rewards come from an external source instead of an internal source, they’re unreliable, which means they’re dangerous if you grow to… — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
The definition of leadership is that you have to find great people and ask them to do extraordinary things. I've been doing… — Kevin O'Leary Copy Share Image
“Profitability. Growth. Quality. Exceeding customer expectations. These are not examples of values. These are examples of corporate strategies being sold to you… — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
To me, a leader is a visionary that energizes others. This definition of leadership has two key dimensions: a) creating the vision… — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
“Being relevant to your customers only when you’re trying to sell something means choosing to be irrelevant to them for the rest… — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“Leaders are people who know exactly who they are. They know exactly where they want to go. They’re hell-bent on getting there.” — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
