Quotes About Development

You will never get to the point that you no longer make mistakes, that you no longer fail. But that's okay.

REAL: relationships, equipping, attitude, and leadership.

as the Chinese proverb asserts, "Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still." —

Los líderes llegan a ser sobresalientes no por su poder, sino por su habilidad para empoderar a otros. El éxito sin un sucesor es en definitiva el fracaso.

Los equipos optimizan el potencial de un líder y minimizan sus debilidades.

People approach any task with one of two mindsets: what I call the "Be-Good" mindset, where your focus is on proving that you have a lot of ability and already know what you're doing, and the "Get-Better" mindset, where your focus is on developing ability. You can think of it as the difference between wanting to prove that you are smart, and wanting to get smarter.

Aquello que persistimos en hacer se vuelve más fácil de realizar, no porque la naturaleza de la tarea en sí haya cambiado, sino porque ha aumentado nuestro potencial para realizarla».

Don't ever be too impressed with goal setting; be impressed with goal getting. Reaching new goals and moving to a higher level of performance always requires change, and change feels awkward. But, take comfort in the knowledge that if a change doesn't feel uncomfortable, then it's probably not really a change.

Goethe recommended, "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.

Commit to Spend the Time Needed to Develop Leaders:

Find someone to mentor. Once you reach a certain level in your leadership, the most valuable thing you have to give is yourself. Find someone to pour your life into. Then give him time and resources to become a better leader.

1. The Assumption Gap—"I Assume That I Will Automatically Grow

People who make growth their goal—instead of a title, position, salary, or other external target—always have a future.

Successful leaders help their people find their right seats. Sometimes that requires moving people around to find where they make the greatest contribution. Sometimes it means trying and failing. As a leader, you have to take it all in stride. Positioning people correctly is a process, and you have to treat it that way.

As you release tasks to the leaders you're developing, you need to trust them, believe in them, and hold them accountable.

The best way to develop rational, well-balanced confidence is to go after a few victories immediately following a failure.

If we're not failing or making mistakes, it means we're playing it too safe.

Cuando las personas cometen errores, generalmente hacen una de tres cosas como respuesta a ellos: deciden no volver a cometer nunca otro error, lo cual es imposible. Permiten que su error los convierta en cobardes, lo cual es necio. O deciden aprender de su error y aplicar la lección a su vida, lo cual es beneficioso.

Education makes all the difference.

What's worse than training your people and losing them? Not training them and keeping them.

Leaders have to deal simultaneously with people issues and business issues, and they need to be able to do both effectively. That's an art. As you work to develop people, maintain a relational approach, valuing them and adding value to them. At the same time, do what you must to achieve a good bottom line.

Failure is inevitable; learning is optional

A leader is great, not because of his or her power, but because of his or her ability to empower others. Success without a successor is failure. A worker's main responsibility is developing others to do the work.

Si usted desea mejorar una organización, mejore a sus líderes. Si quiere hacer crecer una organización, haga crecer a sus líderes. Cuando usted aumenta la cantidad de líderes que tiene y los mejora, el potencial de la organización se incrementa en gran manera.