Trying to determine what you should be doing by measuring yourself against what your peers are doing is a bad idea. Instead create your own personal peer pressure by constantly measuring your current performance against your past performance. #peerpressure

The real challenge facing those who seek to do the right thing is not just doing the right thing for the moment -- that is called expediency, but to have the courage to do the right thing for the long term -- that is called having principles. #DoingRightThing

Offering and engendering loyalty is the single most important concept a leader can implant in the culture of an organization. Loyalty in and of itself will not solve all of an organization's challenges, but strong reciprocal loyalty will put the organization in a better position

One of the best ways for a manager to earn loyalty from employees is to adopt the philosophy that the manager works for the employee and not the other way around. #LoyaltyMatters

Success is more about actions taken in the past, not what will happen in the future. A company or individual that views the past as a precursor of the future is exposed to failure when the future becomes different than the past -- which is always the case. #SuccessFormula

A key responsibility of a leader is to give others a reason to follow. #Leadership

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When do you know you are getting really old? When the first thing you do in the morning and the last thing you do at night is take your medications. #oldage

Those addicted to peer-group analysis and comparison clearly signal that they are more concerned with keeping up, rather than keeping ahead of the competition. #PeerGroup

Nothing inhibits the ability of an organization to innovate and grow more than to be burdened with leaders who slavishly follow the siren song of peer group comparison and its evil twin "best practices."

When a leader finds themselves believing they are entitled to something that others are not entitled to because the leader believes that "but for me" the success of the organization would not have been achieved, they have started down the slippery slope of entitlement.

What distinguishes an entrepreneurial culture from a bureaucratic one is a sense of ownership among its members, a feeling of participation by all, a common mission, an environment that encourages risk and where all who add value share in the rewards of achieved success.

When it comes to negotiating a deal, if you are always willing to walk away from a bad deal, you will never be taken advantage of and will, more times than not, walk away winning. #negotiating

The best way to lead a big company is to lead it like it isn't. #leadershipmindset

To be a successful agent of change, it is not just okay, but mandatory to always ask: Why? and Why not? Why? Because if you don't ask, you will never find out why. #Change

The management mentality of "peer-group comparison" could be referred to as "suicide by imitation."

Bosses who fail tend to be those who believe their job is to "be" the boss. #boss

Innovation is the perspiration behind the inspiration. #innovation

Trying to determine your level of success by studying what your peers are doing is a bad idea. Instead, create your own personal peer pressure by measuring your current performance against your past performance. #PeerPressure