The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization

The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.

If you wouldn't follow yourself, why should anyone else?

The bottom line in managing your emotions is that you should put others – not yourself – first in how you handle and process them. Whether you delay or display your emotions should not be for your own gratification. You should ask yourself, What does the team need? Not, What will make me feel better?

Tend to the people, and they will tend to the business.

The leader’s Attitude is like a thermostat for the place she works. If her attitude is good, the atmosphere is pleasant, and the environment is easy to work in. But if her attitude is bad, the temperature is insufferable.

The company owner doesn't need to win. The best idea does.

Leadership is more disposition than position—influence others from wherever you are.

It is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success.

Nothing will make a better impression on your leader than your ability to manage yourself. If your leader must continually expend energy managing you, then you will be perceived as someone who drains time and energy. If you manage yourself well, however, your boss will see you as someone who maximizes opportunities and leverages personal strengths. That will make you someone your leader turns to when the heat is on.

Advice is what we ask for when we already knew the answer but wish we didn't.

A Chinese proverb says, “Those who drink the water must remember those who dug the well.” Gratitude is one of the most attractive of all personal attributes;

Successful people do the things that unsuccessful people are unwilling to do. —JOHN C. MAXWELL

You never really know something until you teach it to someone else.

Good leaders know when to display emotions and when to delay them.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

a smart person believes only half of what he hears, but a really smart person knows which half to believe.

It’s easier to move from failure to success than from excuses to success.

Henry Ford, who said, “Don’t find a fault; find a remedy.

Managers work with processes—leaders work with people.

If we despise the position we have, it may be because of what I call “destination disease,” which can also be called the greener grass syndrome. If we focus on being some other place because we think it’s better, then we will neither enjoy where we are nor do what we must to succeed. 3.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

And you will have greater credibility with your leader if you admit your shortcomings and refrain from making excuses.

To become a 360-Degree Leader, you will have to pay a price. You will have to give up other opportunities in order to lead. You will have to sacrifice some personal goals for the sake of others. You will have to get out of your comfort zone and do things you’ve never done before. You will have to keep learning and growing when you don’t feel like it. You will have to repeatedly put others ahead of yourself. And if you desire to be a really good leader, you will have to do these things without fanfare or complaint.

we need to make a few critical decisions in major areas of life and then manage those decisions day to day.

Successful leaders are like icebergs. When you look at an iceberg, you see only about 10 percent of it, and the rest of it is hidden under the water. When you look at successful leaders, you see only a fraction of their lives. You see the part that looks really good, but there’s usually a lot that remains hidden that’s neither exciting nor glamorous.

Leadership is a moving target, and it always will be. If you desire to become a better leader, get comfortable with change. And if you want to lead up, learn to think like a leader. Think people, think progress, and think intangibles.

It isn’t hard to be good from time to time in sports. What’s tough is being good every day.

It doesn’t matter what job you do or what position you obtain; you will have limits. That’s just the way life is. When