"I craft my dreams into ambitions, refine my ambitions into goals and turn my goals into plans" Michael Johnson
Olympic Champion
“You achieve success as a leader when people will follow you anywhere, if only out of curiosity .”
General Colin Powell
“It is a terrible thing to look over your
shoulder when you are trying to lead
and find no one out there"
FD Roosevelt
What is the overall business objective?
What are the immediate priorities?
How are you contributing to these priorities?
Providing Direction(The T-test)
“My main job was developing talent. I
was a gardener providing water and other nourishment.
Of course, I hadto pull out some
weeds, too"
Jack Welch
COMMITMENT
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“The most important thing to do is to make
sure that you’ve got the best people. That is
going to be the key to your success.”
Dame Stella Rimingtonformer Head of MI5
“The definition of insanity is
doing the same thing over and over, and expecting different
results.”
Benjamin Franklin
“I’m an optimist. I am always excited by the prospect that
something can be done better”.
Charles Dunstone , Carphone Warehouse
What are the good things we do that we must keep doing?
What are the bad things we do that we must stop doing?
What things do we do only occasionally that we should do consistently?
What things don’t we do that we should start doing?
Challenge & Question Everything
““HeavierHeavier than air than air flying machinesflying machines
are are IMPOSSIBLEIMPOSSIBLE””
Lord Kelvin, President of the Royal Lord Kelvin, President of the Royal Society,Society, 1895 1895
“ “I I think think therethere IS A IS A
world marketworld market for for maybemaybe five five computers” computers”
Thomas Watson Jr, Head of Thomas Watson Jr, Head of IBM,1943IBM,1943
““The device The device is inherently of is inherently of
no value no value to to us”us”
Western Union’s opinion of Western Union’s opinion of Alexander Graham Bell’s Alexander Graham Bell’s Telephone 1876Telephone 1876
“ “640K640K of memory of memoryought to be ought to be
e n o u g h e n o u g h for for anybody…”anybody…”
Bill Gates, 1981Bill Gates, 1981
"If you don't know
why you've failedhow can youimprove?
If you don't know
why you've succeeded it must be an accident".
Lord Sebastian Coe
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