David Cottrell Quotes

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• Successful people keep moving, even when they are discouraged and have made mistakes.
• We all need people who will help us look at situations from a different perspective.
• Even though your responsibilities increase when you become a manager, you lose some of the rights or freedoms you may have enjoyed in the past.
• A real leader spends his time fixing the problem instead of finding who to blame.
• When you accepted your job, you were not chosen solely to fill a position on the organization chart; you were chosen to fill a responsibility.
• I have found success is ultimately realized by people who make more right choices . . . and recover quickly from their bad choices.
• When you write things down, you commit to doing them. If you simply tell me what you want to do, there is really no commitment…
• There is no 'grand conspiracy' preventing your from accomplishing what you need to do.
• When you depend on another's perceptions to match your expectations, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.
• People quit people before they quit companies.
• For you to be successful and provide your employees with the necessary tools for success, you and your boss must work together - no matter…
• Take the time and energy to manage your boss the same way you manage your team.
• One of the main things for a leader is to eliminate confusion.
• You have to escape from management land and get in touch with your people.
• Your job is not to lower the bottom by adjusting for and accommodating the lowest-performing employees. You should be raising the top by recognizing and…
• The worst type of employee you can have is one who has mentally quit and is still physically coming to work every day.
• The single greatest demotivator of a team is having members who are not carrying their load.
• It is rare for people to say they want to be held accountable, but in reality, everyone wants everyone else to be held accountable.
• If your focus is always changing, expect confusion to be rampant on your team.
• One of the major sources of stress, anxiety, and unhappiness comes from feeling as if your life is out of control.

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