Quotes about Development

If you want to succeed at Level 4, you need to become an investor in people. This means adding value but also expecting to see a return on your investment—not in personal gain but in impact.

move up to another level in your career and personal life, then

How to prepare someone for leadership: I do it. I do it and you watch. You do it and I watch. You do it. You do it and someone else watches.

If you don't already have a mentor, go out and find one. If you can't get someone to help you in person, begin the process by reading books. That's where I got started. The main thing is to get the process under way.

People are anxious to improve their circumstances but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

Treat a man as he appears to be and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he already were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be.

Unless you want to carry the whole load yourself, you need to be developing leaders.

If you want to be the best leader you can possibly be, no matter how much or how little natural leadership talent you possess, you need to become a serving leader.

A person who cannot sacrifice will never belong to himself; he belongs to whatever he was unwilling to give up. If you want to develop maturity and gain the value of learning, you need to learn to give up some things today for greater gains tomorrow.

Every day I read, write, think, ask questions, and file what I learn. These are the five disciplines I practice to keep improving.

Anything really worthwhile in life takes time to build.

Spend 80 percent of your time on the most promising 20 percent of the potential leaders around you.