Your struggles have not been a waste. They've come to strengthen you. And grow your capacity to lead - and win.
Our children are the rock on which our future will be built, our greatest asset as a nation. They will be the leaders of our country, the creators of our national wealth, those who care for and protect our people.
It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do. We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.
At around 50 employees, you get to the point where you can't see what's going on all the time. So you start to have weekly check-ins, and you have days that go by without knowing exactly what's going on.
Leaders are made, they are not born
We will have to learn to lead people rather then to contain them.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
I do not believe that reorganization will fix what is wrong with our intelligence community….Failures were caused by performance, not organization.
Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .
Women and girls are naturally agents of change. If we teach one girl to code, she will go on to teach more - we've seen this in our own programs and workshops around the country.
Many women try to advance in their careers by having all the answers; by being the go-to person for information and advice; or by building expertise in a particular field. However, as they progress, gain broader responsibilities, and grow into leadership roles, they realize that their span of control is too vast to be able to know every answer.
Relationships are the foundation of leadership.
Political prodigies are rare in a nation that grooms top leaders through decades of Communist Party road-testing and pageantry. And because Chairman Mao's cult of personality led the country into extremism, the Party spent the next three decades engineering its politicians to be as indistinguishable as possible.
You never really know how good of a leader you are until there is something there is lead us to, toward or through or to overcome.
Great leaders gain authority by giving it away.
I spend most of my career as a management consultant, a businessman working with family-owned small and medium-sized businesses. The businesses that make up the core of our economy.
Leaders aren't born they are made.
In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.
I don't care what sport you're talking about. What you see with great franchises is structure - a structure that doesn't just take you from year to year, but day to day.
Leaders are not born, they're made.
Without a vision people in leadership positions perish. You not only lose your people, you lose the person who is in a leadership position - you lose it all.
Conservatives recognize that college campuses and their frames of reality have an outsized impact on the culture, training the next generation of leaders.
Many of our nation's great leaders began their careers at a service academy. I encourage anyone interested in a rewarding college experience or military career to apply as soon as possible.
I'm fascinated by management and organizations: how organizations get things done and how successful organizations are built and maintained, how they evolve as they grow from start-ups to small companies to medium companies to big companies.
No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary people perform better than they seem capable of, to bring out whatever strength there is in its members, and to use each person's strength to help all the other members perform.
