At the end of it all, sometimes you reach the organizational goals you’ve set, and sometimes you don’t. But either way, if you’re a leader, people’s lives should be better because of the influence you’ve had along the way.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
Young kids with positive male role models have something to live for, somebody who is proud of them, somebody who cares about their well-being. Donald Miller
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
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Accumulating things is highly prized in our society, as are status and fame. On the other hand, the truly important things of life often happen in quiet, private moments—moments of faith, family, and building relationships.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
As you build your leadership skills, it’s important to remember that why you lead is as important as whom you lead. Leading for the benefit of others is a much more compelling and powerful motivation than leading merely to get ahead or to hit an arbitrary target.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
We need strong men to build into the lives of our younger men and boys. Not extraordinary people; just ordinary, everyday men who care enough to invest themselves—their time, attention, and wisdom—in the lives of others, whether as a part of their natural leadership environment or as an additional relationship they purposefully undertake.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
Part of our purpose in life is to build a legacy—a consistent pattern of building into the lives of others with wisdom, experience, and loyalty that can then be passed on to succeeding generations.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
Mentors build mentors. Leaders build leaders.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
Mentor leaders tend to lean toward longer-term results.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
The difficulty for most people is that maintaining a long-term perspective requires faith.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
I always talked to my players about doing the right thing the right way.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
Our talents and our treasures may pay dividends so far down the road we may never see the outcome. But with the faith that comes from doing the right thing at the right time in the right way, the mentor leader knows that the payoff will be great—and possibly eternal.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
1. Evaluate your integrity: Are your actions consistent with your words? 2. Evaluate your impact: Are you making lives better? 3. Evaluate your perspective: Do you see people as central to the mission of your organization? Or do you see them simply as the means—the fuel—to get your organization from here to there? 4. Evaluate your goals: Are you building relationships, or are you building a tower to climb to the top? 5. Mentor leaders see the opportunity to interact with people—and to build into their lives along the way—as part of the journey itself. How are you looking for ways to directly engage with and influence other people? 6. How does your leadership style need to change so that people will flourish and grow around you? 7. You can lead from a position of authority, but the most effective leaders lead as they build relationships of influence. What can you do to move from an authority-based model to an influence-based model? 8. Identify one person whom you can begin to mentor. Don’t look too far or too hard. The opportunity is right in front of you—at work, in your family, or with a friend. Granted, it could be a special situation, outside of your everyday circles of influence, like my relationship with Michael Vick. But more than likely, the person is someone with whom you already have a relationship. 9. Visit The Mentoring Project’s Web site (www.thementoringproject.org) and consider how you can get involved. 10. From your perspective, what is the difference between “success” and “good success”?
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
It’s not about me. It’s not about you. It’s about others.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
Even if you’re the most fantastic leader in history, you can’t do everything in your organization yourself. How much better would things be if you were building leaders who were building leaders who were building leaders? This principle of leader multiplication will reap great rewards.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
Hersey and Blanchard discovered that different styles of leadership—telling, selling, participating, and delegating—are appropriate at different times, depending on the audience (those we lead) and the situation.
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Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
Am I prepared to have great success and not get any credit for it?
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
A compelling vision and a clear mission statement are absolutely critical to effective leadership and a leader’s ability to lead.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
For the mentor leader, though, life is about the destination and the journey.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
As the leader of his family, he realized that his decision needed to be about them. So he passed on the opportunity.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Dwight D. Eisenhower
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A mission statement—whether it’s for an organization, institution, family, team, or individual—serves to answer a fundamental question: Why do we exist?
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
Values, very simply, can be thought of as the “rules of the road.” They tell us and others what is important to us—as leaders, as an organization, and as individuals.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
1. Evaluate your focus: Is it centered on benefiting others? 2. Evaluate your influence: Are you focused on developing your “coaching tree”—building leaders who build leaders, generation after generation? 3. Evaluate your audience: Are you able to preserve a long-term focus on growing others while at times appropriately exercising more direct control and involvement? 4. Look ahead: Know your vision, mission, and values, but remember that life is about the journey, too. 5. Focus on the present: What can you do today to build into the lives of the people around you? Don’t miss the now. Remember, tomorrow may never come. 6. Evaluate your vision: What do you hope the future will look like as you proceed? 7. Evaluate your personal and organizational mission: Does it clearly tell you and the world what you’re about, why you’re here, and why you have chosen these goals? 8. Evaluate your values: Are your “rules of behavior” consistent with your principles? Does your “rudder” steer you in a good direction for how you will behave and treat others? 9. Evaluate your approach with your family, team, business, friends, and others: Mentoring is a lifestyle. 10. Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving. Jesus said, “For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45).
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
As Coach Noll pointed out to me, every player loves to work on his strengths, but only the great ones work on their weaknesses. Coming to grips with our strengths and our weaknesses is essential to our roles as leaders—and as mentor leaders, in particular—if we hope to have a positive impact to mentor and lead others.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. James Baldwin
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
Unloving people are unloved people. The people who are hurting you are hurting themselves. Hurt people hurt people. Ken Whitten
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Henry David Thoreau
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
Your employer deserves your loyalty and whatever time it takes to perform your job. However, that job, that career, has to fit into your life in the appropriate place.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
In the end, you just need to understand that someone else’s agenda cannot determine how you will achieve balance and order the priorities in your own life.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
Don’t tell me what a player can’t do. Show me what he can do and we’ll utilize his strengths. Bill Walsh
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Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
He says that instead of spending so much time working on our weaknesses, or on those things we aren’t naturally gifted to do, we should surround ourselves with people whose strengths complement our weaknesses.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
used to say he would not select the fifty-three best players, but the fifty-three players who gave us the best team.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
People respect a leader who doesn’t have all the answers as long as they can see that the leader is committed to personal growth.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
1. Take a look inside: Mentor leaders know who they are, what motivates them, and why they do what they do and react the way they react; and they are always ready to change in order to become all that God intends. 2. Evaluate your motives: Are you working for yourself? for God? for others? 3. Come to grips with your past: Get help if you need to. Effective leaders get past the past—the things that tie them down. They realize that forgiveness leads to freedom. 4. Be who you are. Mentor leaders lead as the people God made them to be, and they don’t try to be someone else. 5. Evaluate your priorities: Consider the order of importance you place on your relationship with God, your family, your work, your friends, and everything else. Be willing to reevaluate over time. 6. Take a look in the mirror: Recognize that God has given you incredible gifts, abilities, and strengths that are unique to you. 7. Complement your strengths with the strengths of others: Remember, not only were you created for community, but others were too. You were not created to do everything by yourself.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
Mentor leaders should simply be who they are. There’s no need to try to be someone else.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
To follow his thinking, then, the kind of people we spent time with affected our character, and our character affected our performance on the field.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
In a crisis, people crave character.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. George MacDonald
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Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
I have identified four primary trustworthy traits: competence, integrity, security, and authenticity.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
To succeed in any endeavor, we have to know what we’re doing and why we’re doing it.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
From my perspective, a genuine sense of self-worth—the kind of confidence that can’t be shaken by circumstances—is best obtained through a relationship with God. The knowledge that He created me and cares for me does more for my mental health and overall well-being than any self-help book ever could. I am both humbled and empowered by the knowledge that Jesus Christ performed the ultimate act of sacrificial service for me. To know that God loves me that much is powerful.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
Being accountable is one of the most important things a leader can do. To me, it’s closely aligned with character.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
When you know the people who are following you, maybe some of the decisions get tougher. Maybe they are more painful. Maybe the additional information you have—about a person’s home life, family, finances, or personality—might make a particular decision more difficult. But you aren’t looking for easy, I hope.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
Constant awareness of the opportunities we have to make a difference in other people’s lives is what distinguishes mentor leadership from other leadership models I’ve seen. Every opportunity matters—regardless of size. Those opportunities matter to someone; and because of that, they matter to God.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one. Mother Teresa
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Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
You’ve been entrusted with a unique set of circumstances, relationships, and opportunities. No one else stands precisely where you do. Your day-to-day relationships elevate you to a singular position of importance in the lives of your family, friends, coworkers, teammates, and neighbors—the people all around you. They believe in you and derive value from your input. No one else can have the same impact in their lives.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
I’ve heard too many people say that because they aren’t professional coaches, or because they are too young or too old, they can’t lead. That’s unfortunate. Think of the mentors you’ve had in your own life. Were any of them rock stars?
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Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
I’ve learned that I have to be intentional. I need to be intentional about being a mentor, recognizing my platforms and taking advantage of the opportunities I have to impact people around me.
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Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
Sure, the system was wrong and needed to be fixed, he said. But until it was fixed, the real question was, What can I do with the platform I have? What solutions can I offer? Just complaining did nothing to help the children in his classroom, and it would have distracted him from seeing the opportunity he had before him—to have a positive impact on his students’ education and ultimately on their lives.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. Benjamin Disraeli
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Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
“Why would you let anything stop you from doing what you have the ability to do?”
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. Edmund Burke
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Two of the greatest influences in our lives will be the people we associate with and the books or other media we read or watch. So, choose wisely.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
Preach the gospel at all times; when necessary, use words. Attributed to St. Francis of Assisi
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“When you’re a teacher, you talk when you teach. You don’t talk during the test.” I was about twelve and, not surprisingly, had no response to this. “If you teach well enough,” he continued, “you really don’t have to worry when the students are taking the test—they are prepared and can take care of themselves.”
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
What you do gives credibility to what you say, regardless of the setting.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
Remember, in times of crisis people will follow those with character. Not competence or authority, but character.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven. Knute Rockne
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
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A team that is functioning well is more than just the sum of its parts.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
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To maximize team performance, the leaders must create the appropriate culture: a culture that underscores the mission, vision, and values of the organization. A healthy culture values its people.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
It isn’t necessary that all teammates become the best of friends, but a level of respect and appreciation will characterize teams that are truly maximizing their output.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being. Thomas Carlyle
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I told our coaches, players, and staff that if all we did was win a Super Bowl, we would fall far short of our potential and accomplish far less than Jim Irsay had in mind when he hired me.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
Differences among the team will enhance its drive for success, if handled properly within the context of the culture, vision, mission, and values of the organization.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
Embracing diversity in the nonessentials will strengthen and enrich your organization.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
“We need every man on this roster to win, but no player is so important that we can’t win without him.”
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
If you and your team are truly in it together, you won’t find yourself in the situation where it’s “my way or the highway.”
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
So many times I’ve found a valuable nugget that has really helped me from a book or an article that someone passed on to me. C. S. Lewis figured it out long before I did. In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the third book of his Chronicles of Narnia, which was written to illustrate matters of life and faith, Lewis mentions the critical tie between books and life. In a climactic scene in which Eustace confronts a dragon but doesn’t know what it is, Lewis interjects, “Edmund or Lucy or you would have recognized it at once, but Eustace had read none of the right books.”
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Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
The mercenaries will always beat the draftees, but the volunteers will crush them both. Chuck Noll
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Working together is what leads to exceptional results. One of the best ways to get people to work together is to prepare as if you will be leading a team of volunteers.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
You must get to know the members of your team and learn how to energize them before you can expect them to buy into a common mission. You have to be able to explain the mission in terms they can understand and persuade them that it is worth pursuing.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
To succeed as a mentor leader, put other people first. Others first. Whatever your corporate mission, paint a clear and compelling picture that others can understand and embrace. State your mission in terms that appeal to your team’s best instincts. Persuade and empower as if you’re leading and mentoring volunteers. Others first, for maximum team performance.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
As a mentor and a leader, I have found that I cannot move the ball forward with positive, nurturing leadership until I engage with those I am blessed to lead. Once I’ve engaged with them, I am able to educate and equip. Throughout the process, it is essential to encourage, empower, and energize in order to finally elevate the people around me.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
Good teachers help every student earn an A. Wilbur Dungy
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Our job as a coaching staff is to show you what to do and how to do it. Your job as players is to do it consistently. Chuck Noll
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In essence, they strive to furnish what is needed for the task—physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually—and to accomplish the mission.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
I think, for most people, poorly defined tasks are one of the highest areas of dissatisfaction.
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Equipping is an ongoing process for a mentor leader. As various tools are mastered, we can keep honing them and looking to add more.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Goethe
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Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
Not every situation calls for encouragement. Sometimes direction, correction, or admonishment is the most appropriate response.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
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As we look ahead . . . leaders will be those who empower others. Bill Gates
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That is true empowerment: preparation followed by appropriate freedom.
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“Powerful Beyond Measure” became his rallying cry. The concept was that together they were more powerful than the measurement of their individual talents.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
The safe play would have been to punt, play defense, and hope to get the ball back with a chance to score. However, he had been telling his players, “Don’t be afraid to win.” They had played tentatively all year, as if they were waiting for something bad to happen in every game. Not surprisingly, it often had. Funny how those self-fulfilling prophecies have a way of coming true.
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Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
The Bills took the field needing to keep their lead. But instead of playing not to lose, Perry told them to win with authority and not to wait for something to happen.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
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But raising up leaders is the truly selfless goal of every mentor leader, the culmination of focusing on others.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
I always wanted the teams I coached to be in better shape when I left than when I got there. I also wanted the organization to continue to thrive after I was gone. That’s how I saw my job as a mentor leader.
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, and Nathan Whitaker
The first question that the priest asked, the first question that the Levite asked was: “If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?” But . . . the good Samaritan . . . reversed the question: “If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?” Martin Luther King Jr.
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The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. Nelson Henderson
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The mentor leader’s ultimate measure of success is simply this: Did you add value to the lives of others?
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The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan
John Bunyan
The Interpreter answered, This parlour is the heart of a man that was never sanctified by the sweet grace of the gospel; the dust is his original sin and inward corruptions, that have defiled the whole man. He that began to sweep at first, is the Law; but she that brought water, and did sprinkle it, is the Gospel.
The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan
John Bunyan
for first must give place to last, because last must have his time to come; but last gives place to nothing; for there is not another to succeed.
The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan
John Bunyan
nor have I anything to offer my readers except my conviction that when pain is to be borne, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.
The Problem of Pain
C. S. Lewis
If the universe is so bad, or even half so bad, how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?
The Problem of Pain
C. S. Lewis
It is no more possible for God than for the weakest of His creatures to carry out both of two mutually exclusive alternatives; not because His power meets an obstacle, but because nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.
The Problem of Pain
C. S. Lewis
Again, the freedom of a creature must mean freedom to choose: and choice implies the existence of things to choose between.
The Problem of Pain
C. S. Lewis
What we need for human society is exactly what we have—a neutral something, neither you nor I, which we can both manipulate so as to make signs to each other. I can talk to you because we can both set up sound-waves in the common air between us. Matter, which keeps souls apart, also brings them together. It enables each of us to have an ‘outside’ as well as an ‘inside’, so that what are acts of will and thought for you are noises and glances for me; you are enabled not only to be, but to appear: and hence I have the pleasure of making your acquaintance.
The Problem of Pain
C. S. Lewis
That God can and does, on occasions, modify the behaviour of matter and produce what we call miracles, is part of Christian faith; but the very conception of a common, and therefore stable, world, demands that these occasions should be extremely
The Problem of Pain
C. S. Lewis
Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life it’self.
The Problem of Pain
C. S. Lewis