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Leaders who practice the Law of Victory have no Plan B. That is why they keep fighting.
when the opposing team is scoring a lot of unanswered points and starts to develop momentum, a good coach will call a time-out. Why? He’s trying to stop the other team’s momentum before it becomes too strong. If he doesn’t, his team will likely lose the game.
When you have momentum, you don’t worry about small problems,
People like associating themselves with winners.
started my career, I wasn’t as bad as people thought. Today, I’m not as good as people give me credit for. Why the difference? Momentum!
Leaders always find a way to make things happen.
You want to continually praise effort but reward accomplishments. The more you reward success, the more people will strive for it.
busyness does not equal productivity. Activity is not necessarily accomplishment.
Life is too short not to do some things you love.
The life of a leader can look glamorous to people on the outside. But the reality is that leadership requires sacrifice. A leader must give up to go up.
THERE IS NO SUCCESS WITHOUT SACRIFICE
“When you become a leader, you lose the right to think about yourself.”
Leaders must be willing to give up more than the people they lead.
The problem for leaders comes when they think they have earned the right to stop making sacrifices. But in leadership, sacrifice is an ongoing process, not a one-time payment. If leaders have to give up to go up, then they have to give up even more to stay up.
The only way to stay up is to give up even more.
Only the right action at the right time will bring success.
To Add Growth, Lead Followers—To Multiply, Lead Leaders
Add ten followers to your organization, and you have the power of ten people. Add ten leaders to your organization, and you have the power of ten leaders times all of the followers and leaders they influence. That’s what I call leader’s math. It’s the difference between addition and multiplication.
Stage 1: Developing yourself Stage 2: Developing your team Stage 3: Developing leaders
Success doesn’t count for much if you leave nothing behind. The best way to do that is through a leadership legacy.
“A life isn’t significant except for its impact on other lives.”
I do what I should rather than what I want because I am conscious that I am setting an example for others.
