You need courage to be creative. You need the courage to see things differently, courage to go against the crowd, courage to take a different approach, courage to stand alone, if you have to, courage to choose activity over inactivity.
Jim RohnRead
Learn to help people with more than just their jobs: help them with their lives.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of supporting individuals beyond their professional roles, focusing on their overall well-being.
Jim Rohn highlights the significance of offering assistance that encompasses not only professional development but also personal growth and emotional support. By showing genuine care for people's lives, leaders can foster deeper connections and contribute to their overall happiness and success, creating a more motivated and dedicated team.
In practice
In a motivational speech at a leadership conference.
You need courage to be creative. You need the courage to see things differently, courage to go against the crowd, courage to take a different approach, courage to stand alone, if you have to, courage to choose activity over inactivity.
It isnβt what the book costs. Itβs what it will cost you if you donβt read it.
Don't wish for less problems; wish for more skills.
The major value of reaching goals is not to acquire it, but it's the person you become while you're working to acquire it.
Faith is the ability to see things that don't yet exist. Faith, though, can turn difficulty into reality, positive reality.
Leaders must understand that some people will inevitably sell out to the evil side. Don't waste your time wondering why; spend your time discovering who.
Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
It is the business of a general to be serene and inscrutable, impartial and self-controlled.
The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass. She therefore makes sure she puts into the leadership position, into the standard-setting, the performance-making position the person who has the strength to do the outstanding pacesetting job. This always requires focus on the one strength of a person and dismissal of weaknesses as irrelevant unless they hamper the full deployment of the available strength.
Either love your players or get out of coaching.
Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable.
I must have assistants who will solve their own problems and tell me later what they've done.
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