Your listening, not your speaking, is your most direct access to leadership effectiveness. — Al Ritter Copy Share Image
“When you don’t know what true for you, everyone else has unusual influence.” — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“When you’re a manager, you work for your company. When you’re a leader, your company works for you.” — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“The heart of a company’s performance is hardwired to the hearts of its managers.” — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“Emotional commitment is a personal choice. Managers understand this even if their companies don’t.” — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“When you’re not on your own agenda, you’re prey to the agenda of others.” — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“Your values are your essence: an undistorted mirror showing you at your pure, attractive best.” — Stan Slap 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
“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
“Your company is its own competition and can deliver itself debilitating blows the competition only dreams of.” — 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
“What managers want most from companies they stop themselves from getting. What companies want most from managers they stop them from giving.” — 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
“Do you think your people struggle with being true to themselves? Do their values match up with their work?” — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“Success for Managers means: I want to be in healthy relationships. I want a real connection with people I spend so much… — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“The economy is in ruins! Bottom line? Good management will defeat a bad economy.” — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“Try not to take this the wrong way, but your brain is smarter than you are.” — 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
“Your dreams and the dreams of your company may be different, but they are in no way incompatible.” — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“It’s impossible for a company to get what it wants most if managers have to make a choice between their own values… — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“The high quality of a company’s customer experience rarely has anything to do with the high price of their product.” — 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
“A manager’s emotional commitment is worth more than their financial, intellectual and physical commitment combined.” — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“Leaders make a lot of mistakes but they admit those mistakes to themselves and change because of them.” — 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
“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
“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
“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
“There will be plenty of other problems in the future. This is as good a time as any to get ahead of… — 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
“Human behavior is only unpredictable and dangerous if you don’t start from humanity in the first place.” — 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
“Hard-core results come from igniting the massive power of emotional commitment. Are your people committed?” — 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
“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
“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
“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
“Your company really has to work for you before you’ll really work for your company.” — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
