Quotes by Stan Slap

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A company can’t buy true emotional commitment from managers no matter how much it’s willing to spend; this is something too valuable to have a price tag. And yet a company can’t afford not to have it.

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When you’re not on your own agenda, you’re prey to the agenda of others.

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The worst thing in your own development as a leader is not to do it wrong. It’s to do it for the wrong reasons.

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Try not to take this the wrong way, but your brain is smarter than you are.

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Values are the individual biases that allow you to decide which actions are true for you alone.

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Why live my personal values at work? This is an excellent question to ask. If your attorneys are planning an insanity defense.

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When rewards come from an external source instead of an internal source, they’re unreliable, which means they’re dangerous if you grow to depend on them.

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Any expert will tell you that if you want emotionally committed relationships then people must be allowed to be true to who they are.

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A manager’s emotional commitment is the ultimate trigger for their discretionary effort, worth more than financial, intellectual & physical commitment combined.

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What companies want most from their managers is what they most stop their managers from giving. What managers want most from their jobs is what they most stop themselves from getting.

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Your company really has to work for you before you’ll really work for your company.

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Human behavior is only unpredictable and dangerous if you don’t start from humanity in the first place.

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When you don’t know what true for you, everyone else has unusual influence.

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Providing the ultimate solution to work/life balance: not escaping from work but living the way you want to at work.

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Most managers have plenty of emotional commitment to give to their jobs. If they can be convinced it’s safe and sensible to give it.

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Get one Manager Commitment as a result of the other Manager Commitment and you have a powerful equation for Earnings: E=MC2.

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Your dreams and the dreams of your company may be different, but they are in no way incompatible.

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The company may have captured their minds, their bodies and their pockets, but that doesn’t mean it’s captured their hearts.

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Emotional commitment is a personal choice. Managers understand this even if their companies don’t.

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A manager’s emotional commitment is worth more than their financial, intellectual and physical commitment combined.

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This is your one and only precious life. Somebody’s going to decide how it’s going to be lived and that person had better be you.

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