Quotes that hit me

Smarter Faster Better - Charles Duhigg

• Need for control  is biological imperative.
• Each choice no matter how small reinforces 
• perception of control.
• Internal locus of control vs external locus of control. 
• Teams need psychological Safety

360 Degrees Leadership - John Maxwell

• Leadership is a choice you make, not position you sit.
• When opportunity comes its too late to prepare.
• A position doesn't make leader, leader makes the position. 
• Try to stay on top of your game, instead of top of your org.
• Good leaders rarely think in terms of boundaries, They think of opportunities. 
• We can get so much focused on dreams, Loosing sight of our responsibilities. 
• If we focus on being some other place because we think it is better, then we will neither enjoy where we are Nor do what we need to succeed. 
• I am huggable and Buggable.
• It's more important to get along than to get ahead.
• Vision begins with one person, but it is only accomplished by many people.
• Instead of wanting a position where people follow you, Become a person people want to follow. 
• Successful people make decisions early and Manage daily.
• The greatest enemy of good thinking is business.
• Show me what you can do, don't just tell me What you can do.
• When you help someone bigger than you, It makes you part of something bigger.
• It's not how heavy the load is, it's how you carry it.
• There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.
• The higher level you play, the lesser they accept excuses.
• It's easier to move from failure to success than excuse to success.
• The goal is more important than role.
• Trust your hunches , they are usually the facts filed away just below the conscious level.
• The difference between good idea and great idea is often the value added during the collaborative process.
• The key to personal development is growth oriented not goal oriented. 
• If your past accomplishments are not looking small then you haven't grown.
• Leadership is all about growing others.
• To connect with people walk at their pace.
• The best designers are those who thought about their experience than others.
• You cannot give what you do not have, 
• In order to develop people, you need to keep growing yourself.
• Your desire is your power.
• For schooling 70% might wotk, not for trust.
• Vision tells them where they need to go, Purpose tells them why they need to go.
• Not all good decision makers are leaders, but all the leaders are decision makers.
• Start doing what is necessary,  then what is possible, Suddenly you will be doing impossible. 
• If you can lead volunteers well, you can be a good leader. Because you have no leverage on volunteers.
• LATTE METHOD: Listen, Acknowledge,  Take action, Thank, explain why it happened.
• People become good by nature, habit, instructions.