Book: Start with "Why?" How great leaders inspire action

Successful succession is more than just a choice of the person with the appropriate skill set is search for someone who shares the original idea of creating the company. Great second or third control is this post not in order to bring his own vision of the future; they raise the initial flag and lead the company to the next generation. That's why we call it succession, not replacement. There must be a continuation of the world.

Any effective movement needed a leader who will remind people about WHY they participate in it.

If you give people the tools and increase their performance, then they will all have the opportunity to achieve their true potential.

Future leaders and employees need to be inspired by something more than the force of personality of the founder.

It is easy to remain faithful to the leader, it is difficult to find effective ways to always keep the main dream of the organization.

The pessimists are usually right, but optimists change the world.

Not Martin Luther king changed America, and the millions of people he inspired.

The energy motivates but charisma inspires.

Many companies have star employees, vendors, and so forth, but very few have a culture that creates great people like a pattern, not an exception.

If you wonder how the Colgate company has created thirty-two kinds of toothpaste, you should know that this is due to the fact that each day its employees come to work with the objective of creating a perfect pasta, not in order to, for example, make people more confident.

The role of the leader is not to come up with big ideas. The leader must create conditions for the emergence of great ideas.

You accept people not for skills but for attitude. Skills you will be able to teach them.

We thrive in places that reflect our values and beliefs.

Leadership is not the same as the leader. To be a leader means to hold the upper bar where you have your work or due to luck or the conduct of domestic policy. However, leadership implies that people with a great desire to follow you - and not because they have to do it or they paid for it, but because they want to.