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Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man.
To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.
Don't prioritize your schedule, schedule those priorities.
We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success
When we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other.
Communication is the most important single activity of man.
Make time for planning: Wars are won in the general's tent.
Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.
Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.
What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.
Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms.
The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions
While values drive behaviors, principles govern consequences.
The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.
The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.
Empathy takes time, and efficiency is for things, not people.
It's like the more you know the more you know you don't know.
Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.
Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.
Visualising something organises one's ability to accomplish it.
You think effectiveness with people and efficiency with things.
Remember, technology is a great servant, but a terrible master.
Distinguish between the person and the behavior or performance.
Sometimes poor behavior is simply bad execution of good intent.
Building and repairing relationships are long-term investments.
All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements
See every problem as an opportunity to exercise creative energy.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
The key to growth is to learn to make promises and to keep them.
Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.
You can't talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.
Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.
It is possible to be busy-very busy-without being very effective.
Effective interdependence can only be built on true independence.
Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.
We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.
In the end, life teaches us what is important, and that is family.
We can never really change someone; people must change themselves.
Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.
If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.
To Retain those who are present, be loyal to those who are absent.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations
Independent thinking alone is not suited to interdependent reality.
You can't talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!
To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.
There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.