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— Michael Dell

“A manager’s emotional commitment is worth more than their financial, intellectual and physical commitment combined.”

— Stan Slap

“Companies should be the best possible place to practice fulfillment, to live out values and to realize deep connectivity and purpose.”

— Stan Slap

“It’s impossible for a company to get what it wants most if managers have to make a choice between their own values and company…

— Stan Slap

“Why live my personal values at work? This is an excellent question to ask. If your attorneys are planning an insanity defense.”

— Stan Slap

“This is your one and only precious life. Somebody’s going to decide how it’s going to be lived and that person had better be…

— Stan Slap

“Emotional commitment is a personal choice. Managers understand this even if their companies don’t.”

— Stan Slap

“Management controls performance in people because it impacts skills; it’s a matter of monitoring, analyzing and directing.”

— Stan Slap

“When you’re not on your own agenda, you’re prey to the agenda of others.”

— Stan Slap

“Any expert will tell you that if you want emotionally committed relationships then people must be allowed to be true to who they are.”

— Stan Slap

“Managers know what they want most: to be allowed to achieve success by leveraging who they are, not by compromising it.”

— Stan Slap

“Leaders make a lot of mistakes but they admit those mistakes to themselves and change because of them.”

— Stan Slap

“What managers want most from companies they stop themselves from getting. What companies want most from managers they stop them from giving.”

— Stan Slap

“When you don’t know what true for you, everyone else has unusual influence.”

— Stan Slap

“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