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Great communication depends on two simple skills:

• context, which attunes a leader to the same frequency as his or her audience
• delivery, which allows a leader to phrase messages in a language the audience can understand.

- John Maxwell, leadership specialist; author

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. - Leonardo da Vinci, Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau, American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist.

Coaching Thought:

'The only way to do great work is to love what you do.  If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking.  Don’t settle.' -Steve Jobs

Coaching Thought:

Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is an essential condition in becoming an integrated person. -Warren G Bennis

Coaching Thought:

'Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.'- Thomas J. Watson Sr.

If you believe, as I do, that your employees truly are your most valuable asset, you will do whatever you can to help them do their jobs as well as possible.~ Harvey Mackay