Умение руководить людьми - главный фактор, определяющий различие между успехом и провалом, между удачно сложившейся жизнью и посредственным прозябанием.

Короткий конспект книги Бодо Шефера «Простое лидерство»

О чём эта книга? Зачем её нужно прочесть? Какую пользу и выгоду принесет вам обмен времени и внимания на прочтение?

Люди - как музыкальные инструменты: их звучание зависит от того, кто к ним прикасается. Вергилий

Эта книга, о человеке, который сумел настроить «расстроенный инструмент» - команду, которая была на грани развала. Вернее, она была уже развалена...

У каждого человека есть свой КЭ - коэффициент эффективности. Делает ли он то, что в состоянии делать, добивается ли тех целей, которые перед собой поставил? Причина снижения КЭ в компании- плохое управление!

3 аспекта эффективного лидерства: 1. Задачи для разума (Что надо делать?) 2. Вспомогательные средства для рук (С помощью чего надо делать?) 3. Принципы для сердца (Как и зачем и надо делать?)

«Для чего вы сюда пришли?» Задайте такой вопрос своим сотрудникам на собрании. Пускай каждый ответит, знает ли он, чего от него ожидают? Пускай поставит себе оценку своей эффективности для команды?

Степень эффективности, которую вы проявляете в жизни, находится в прямой зависимости от вашего умения управлять людьми.

Фокусируйте возможности и концентрируйте энергию людей.

Сотрудники, которые не знают, чего от них ждут, увольняются.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

I don't really dance. I don't drink or smoke. Being at parties is very awkward.

Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, 'How are you, you old scoundrel!' clearly I don't really mean he's a scoundrel.

It depends on how my football career goes, but when I am finished, I would love to go the NFL and be a kicker. Even if I got to play just one game, it is something I would like to do.

Spirituality is no different from what we've been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning to pray, and reading Scriptures rightly. It's just ordinary stuff.

I do want to try to put things in perspective today relative to the U.S.-Canada relationship. I would like to start by talking about how important this relationship is to the people of the United States.

Secessionists, whether in Scotland, Catalonia, Quebec or anywhere else, invariably assume that a person must either be Scottish or British, Catalan or Spanish, Quebecois or Canadian. What about those who feel they are both?

If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it's being true to their nature... that's what takes a long time to learn.

As I get older, I have a different look on life. I just try to be a little more tolerant and a little bit more centered about what's going on around me and not so emotional.

When I write legally, I try to write very plain, very vanilla, very clear.

It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches. In those churches, the priests can be married, but the bishops have to be celibate. They are very good priests.

There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes.

A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.

Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.

The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.

Nobody expected Darryl Glenn to win, and he's won every time.

You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right.

Our country will be stabilized, with all key establishments in society working in unity with full awareness among Thais of their duties and responsibilities.

Voters tell politicians what they want through the ballot box. Constantly second-guessing them by speculating whether the parties should gang up on each other misses the point.

If I have open time, and I'm in Manhattan, I'll just walk to wherever I'm going, even if I could get there faster on the subway. I just love walking the streets of New York.