Quotes about Development

You will never get to the point that you no longer make mistakes, that you no longer fail. But that's okay.

make the most of the difficult situation of working for a bad boss, learn to think like a leader yourself. Think people, think progress, and think intangibles.

People approach any task with one of two mindsets: what I call the "Be-Good" mindset, where your focus is on proving that you have a lot of ability and already know what you're doing, and the "Get-Better" mindset, where your focus is on developing ability. You can think of it as the difference between wanting to prove that you are smart, and wanting to get smarter.

Goethe recommended, "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.

Commit to Spend the Time Needed to Develop Leaders:

Find someone to mentor. Once you reach a certain level in your leadership, the most valuable thing you have to give is yourself. Find someone to pour your life into. Then give him time and resources to become a better leader.

People who make growth their goal—instead of a title, position, salary, or other external target—always have a future.

Successful leaders help their people find their right seats. Sometimes that requires moving people around to find where they make the greatest contribution. Sometimes it means trying and failing. As a leader, you have to take it all in stride. Positioning people correctly is a process, and you have to treat it that way.

As you release tasks to the leaders you're developing, you need to trust them, believe in them, and hold them accountable.

The best way to develop rational, well-balanced confidence is to go after a few victories immediately following a failure.

If we're not failing or making mistakes, it means we're playing it too safe.

Education makes all the difference.