The High-Potential Leader Quotes

“Investing a half hour a day in reading, seven days a week, 365 days a year, is a habit that will bring more value to you and your leadership strength than any other investment of your time. It doesn’t have to be books, and if it is, don’t brag about how many you’ve read. Just search for the new ideas, new insights, and new pieces of information.”
― Ram Charan, The High-Potential Leader: How to Grow Fast, Take on New Responsibilities, and Make an Impact

“How you meet your own commitments is important. Are you doing it by draining energy—driving people relentlessly, or burning them out by making impossible demands? Or are you expanding the capacity of the organization by helping people grow and expand their own capacities? In other words, there’s a right and a wrong way to delegate.”
― Ram Charan, The High-Potential Leader: How to Grow Fast, Take on New Responsibilities, and Make an Impact

“It takes a deep personal commitment to devote the time and energy to ensure that you have the very best person in each of the jobs you oversee. You may want help from HR or recruiting firms, but this is your personal responsibility. The better you are at it, the more you expand your own capacity and capability.”
― Ram Charan, The High-Potential Leader: How to Grow Fast, Take on New Responsibilities, and Make an Impact