Great leaders have learned to apply and teach the lessons from past failures!!!

The responsibility of leadership is to plan and set the path forward. Planning helps leaders hold people accountable Without a plan and deadlines, work just continues until somebody gets around to completing it. But if you have leaders who understand the importance of planning and hold people to deadlines, suddenly people start to respect the plan. When people respect the plan, their behaviour changes.

The speed of the leader determines the speed of the gang. – Mary Kay Ash

It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. It doesn’t matter how many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you because all that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.–?Mark Cuban

People's problems must sometimes be dealt with harshly. When you make an example of someone, make sure everyone knows what the lesson is. Punish one, teach a hundred. – The Mafia Manager

Sometimes, I think my most important job as a CEO is to listen for the bad news. If you don’t act on it, your people will eventually stop bringing bad news to your attention and that is the beginning of the end. – Bill Gates

Kindness is more powerful than compulsion.– Charles Schwab

There are no working hours for leaders.– James Cardinal Gibbons

Don’t encourage overtime. Tell your people that the best way to impress you is to do a great job in the time allotted for it and then go home and relax. – The Mafia Manager

Too many companies want their brands to reflect some idealised perfected image of themselves. As a consequence, their brand acquires no texture, no character.?– Richard Branson

Entrepreneurial business favours an open mind. It favours people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely for the joy of doing so.?– Richard Branson

A real leader faces the music even when he doesn’t like the tune. – Arnold H. Glasgow

A little thing is a little thing but faithfulness in a little thing is a great thing.– Hudson Taylor

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.– Steve Jobs?

Be as careful as to the books you read as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter. – Poxton Hood

Beware of those who stand aloof and greet each venture with reproof. The world would stop if things were run by men who say ‘it can’t be done. – Samuel Glover

Be great in little things. – St. Francis Xavier

Be a lifelong student, and read as many books as possible. – Nelson Mandela

Calamity is the test of integrity. – Samuel Richardson

Your arrows do not carry, observed the master; because they do not reach far enough spiritually. – Zen Master

Cowards die many times before their death. The valiant never taste death but once. – William Shakespeare

You are in a war. You must plan to take the other guy down first and do it. Winning is not the best thing; it’s the only thing. If it were not, no one would keep score. To win the war, you must take charge. You must set the organization’s objectives, establish a chain of control, delegate, appraise performance, adjust and act. – The Mafia Manager

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees all others. – Winston Churchill

When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough. – Donald Trump

To win one hundred battles in one hundred victories is not the ACME of skills. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the ACME of skill. – Sun Tzu

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable as a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other thing under the sun. – John D. Rockefeller

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. – Winston Churchill

To lead people, walk behind them.– Lao Tzu

If you see a snake, just kill it. Don’t appoint a committee on snakes. – Henry Ross Perot

The most important thing in your business relationships is your reputation for honesty. If you can genuinely and sincerely fake honesty, you will be a success. Never doubt it.– The Mafia Manager

Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they are going to make mistakes.– Henry Ross Perot

After loyalty comes ability, skill and competence. Promote only able people (and the occasional humbler). You find able people by testing them. – The Mafia Manager

Do not fear when your enemies criticize you. Beware when they applaud. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. – John F. Kennedy

Fire is the test of gold, adversity of strong men. – Seneca

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.– John D. Rockefeller

Be prepared for betrayal from anyone on your staff, but especially from those you have the most trust in. Every betrayal must be repaid as quickly and as publicly as possible. If you should let a betrayal go unpunished, you are through as a leader.– The Mafia Manager

When people are placed in positions slightly above what they expect, they are apt to excel. – Richard Branson

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgments. – Dr Warne W. Dyer

He who establishes his argument by noise is weak and command shows that his reason is weak. – Montaigne

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great action.– J. F. Clarke

At meetings, have someone else float your newest ideas. Watch the reaction of the rest of your staff. Note who opposes, who supports, who links up with whom. See who responds with an open mind, whose mind is already made up, one way or the other. If you are going to walk on water, you have to know where the rocks are. – The Mafia Manager

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do because then they will act. – Jack Welch

It takes character and control to be understanding and forgiving.– Dale Carnegie

Before making an important decision, get as much as you can of the best information available and review it carefully, analyze it and draw up worst-case scenarios. Add up the plus or minus factors, discuss it with your team and do what your guts tell you to do. – The Mafia Manager

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.– Steve Jobs

Inventories can be managed but people must be led. – Henry Ross Perot

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and only five Minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you will do things differently.– Warren Buffett

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish. – Sam Walton

Don’t be too familiar with your followers; it may at first inspire affection but eventually, like all familiarity; it will breed contempt. – The Mafia Manager

I hire people brighter than me and I get out of their way. – Lee Iacocca

It’s all right to be Goliath but always act like David. – Philip Knight

If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you hear a voice within you saying ‘you are not a painter’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. – Vincent Van Gogh

There will be times when you will have to be abrasive, even brutal to members of your staff. Don’t worry that your people will say bad things about you because of this. They already have. But in general, try to be pleasant and accommodating. Try to please the greatest number who work for you that you can; antagonize the fewest. Blow smoke. – The Mafia Manager

The best leaders take full responsibility for their team’s performance, whether the outcome is good or bad. As a leader, you should aim to praise your team when they perform well and provide constructive criticism to help them improve. As a key figure in a department or company, every leader should demonstrate confidence to instil motivation. The best leaders rarely follow established pathways or copy the routes others have taken. Instead, they embrace new ways of thinking and strategies that others have yet to try.

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