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Good leaders are the kind of people who go around passing out the credit and encouragement--not trying to scoop up all they can for themselves. They recognize the importance of other people's contributions and soft-pedal their own.










A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contributions to praise the skills of the others.
Norman G. Shidle









Always Remember: You can't teach anything that will compare with example.







If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
CHINESE PROVERB










Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish one's growth without destroying one's roots.







"There is only one boss--the customer. Customers can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending their money somewhere else."
Sam Walton of Walmart.










Managers often neglect to thank employees properly for a job well done. As a result, workers neither feel nor demonstrate loyalty to the firm.








Those who cannot believe in themselves cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.
Roy L. Smith












"Therefore do not be anxious for tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."
JESUS - from The Bible, Matthew 6:34









There are two kinds of failures:
the people who will do nothing they are told, and those who will do nothing else.








Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have of trying to change others.








Tact is
the knack of making a point without making an enemy.









Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of fact.
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)








Failures don't plan to fail.
Most of them just fail to plan.







When a crisis breaks, don't minimize the bad news. Try to get all the information out immediately.
WHY: It looks worse when the information dribbles out. People rightly wonder "What else are they keeping from us?"