Habits of a leader

1. Start with a comprehensive recognition of reverence for identifying the specific actions and attitudes relevant to your team's performance.
2. Be clear on your expectations of effort and execution of your standard.
3. Let all know that you expect them to possess the highest level o...

1. Exbihit paralyzing patience.
2. Engage in massive delegating.
3. Act in a tedious, overly cautious manner.
4. Become best buddies with certain employees or play favouritism.
5. Spend excessive time socializing with superiors or subordinates
6. Fail to continue perfo...

If you don't have purpose that is shared between everyone, you will not do anything that is timeless.

You must focus on building what you want to see in the world. When you have a passion for building for yourself, that' will draw other people to your cause and your team.

"The Art Spirit", by Robert Henri is about creativity through the lens of an art student. 

The book starts, "Art, when really understood, is a province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things - anything. Well, it is not an outside extra thing. When the artist is al...

1. Praise is more valuable than blame.
2. Set expectations. Use every means before and after comment to tell troops what they're going to do and what they have done.
3. Discipline is based on pride in the profession of arms, meticulous attention to detail, and mutual respect and confi...

It's not just how important the end product is but the actual craft of doing the work, inventing within the work.

Few have the courage and stamina to see it through. You have to make up your mind to be alone in many ways. 

The old masters did know how they compose their pictures. Do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them. 

It's easy to fall in the footsteps of others, to do what they do because you think it's the right way. You may think if they've had s...

An art student must be a master from the start. He must be a master of his own tools. That mastership is not a destination. It is a process and constant practice.

It is not enough to think of great things. What really matters is the work. To implement those ideas. Other's success s...

Bill Walsh took a football team near the bottom and brought them to the top. He focused entirely on a new standard of performance.

The most challenging transition for an entrepreneur is going from individual action to leading a team. First, start with an idea and a philosophy of pu...

Keep a list of everything that you want to do every day and a list of things that you don't want to do. This will help to establish patterns for yourself. Every day for a week, wake up to this note. Check it throughout the day and before you fall asleep.

For example:

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