The first step out of the gate has to be knowing where you want to end up. What do you really want from your company?
~ Stan Slap
The first step to solving any problem is to accept one’s own accountability for creating it.
~ Stan Slap
You don't have to fear your own company being perceived as human. You want it. People don't trust companies, they trust people.
~ Stan Slap
Being relevant to your customers only when you’re trying to sell something means choosing to be irrelevant to them for the rest of the time.
~ Stan Slap
There will be plenty of other problems in the future. This is as good a time as any to get ahead of them.
~ Stan Slap
The economy is in ruins! Bottom line? Good management will defeat a bad economy.
~ Stan Slap
Your company is its own competition and can deliver itself debilitating blows the competition only dreams of.
~ Stan Slap
Instead of waiting for a leader you can believe in, try this: Become a leader you can believe in.
~ Stan Slap
The purpose of leadership is to change the world around you in the name of your values, so you can live those values more fully.
~ Stan Slap
Profitability. Growth. Quality. Exceeding customer expectations. These are not examples of values. These are examples of corporate strategies being sold to you as values.
~ Stan Slap
When you’re a manager, you work for your company. When you’re a leader, your company works for you.
~ Stan Slap
Work/life balance is not about escaping work. It’s about living exactly the way you want to when you’re at work.
~ Stan Slap
What first separates a leader from a normal human being? A leader knows who they are as a human being.
~ Stan Slap
True leaders live their values everywhere, not just in the workplace.
~ Stan Slap
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.
~ Stan Slap
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.
~ Stan Slap
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.
~ Stan Slap
Human behavior is only unpredictable and dangerous if you don’t start from humanity in the first place.
~ Stan Slap
Imagine a world where what you say synchs up, not sinks down.
~ Stan Slap
Why live my personal values at work? This is an excellent question to ask. If your attorneys are planning an insanity defense.
~ Stan Slap
Here’s what you need to know most about leadership: Lead your own life first. The only thing in this world that will dependably happen from the top down is the digging of your grave.
~ Stan Slap
The myth of management is that your personal values are irrelevant or inappropriate at work.
~ Stan Slap
It’s impossible for a company to get what it wants most if managers have to make a choice between their own values and company priorities.
~ Stan Slap
Try not to take this the wrong way, but your brain is smarter than you are.
~ Stan Slap
A manager’s emotional commitment is the ultimate trigger for their discretionary effort, worth more than financial, intellectual & physical commitment combined.
~ Stan Slap
You can stuff yourself with emotional fulfillment until it’s dribbling down your chin & your ego will quickly chomp it down and demand more.
~ Stan Slap
Your dreams and the dreams of your company may be different, but they are in no way incompatible.
~ Stan Slap