Never ask your employees to do something you wouldn't be willing to do yourself.
Interpretation
Leaders should set an example by being willing to undertake the same tasks they ask of others.
This quote emphasizes the importance of leading by example in a leadership role. It suggests that a leader should demonstrate the same commitment and willingness to engage in the work expected of their employees, fostering a culture of shared responsibility and respect within the organization.
In practice
During a company meeting, a manager quotes this to emphasize the company's values.
We'll have a sales leader go run engineering. A lawyer go run business development. A business development leader go run our consumer operations. We're going to train a generalist group of leaders who know how to learn and operate in collaboration teamwork. I think that's the future of leadership.
Our success at Cisco has been defined by how we anticipate, capture, and lead through market transitions. Over the years, I've watched iconic companies disappear - Compaq, Sun Microsystems, Wang, Digital Equipment - as they failed to anticipate where the market was heading.
There are two types of companies: those that have been hacked, and those who don't know they have been hacked.
It's connectivity that really makes the industrial Internet work: it's giving the right information at the right time to the right person or right machine to make the right decision.
Widening the talent pipeline sufficiently will require a generational commitment to teaching math and science, providing technical training, and mentoring young people of all backgrounds so they understand the full range of possibilities that a career in technology affords.
Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life's worst hazards and misfortune.
We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.
If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu.
In the 101st Airborne Division headquarters in Mosul, we had a sign on the wall. It was a question that we would ask ourselves before every new operation or policy initiative. It asked: Will this policy or operation take more bad guys off the streets than it creates by its conduct?
As a player, you can be more spontaneous and instinctive, but now as a coach I have to find a psychological balance within the team.
The reason we are here is thinking, 'What can we do to make this club a better club?' I don't want the guys to think about what the club can do for them.
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