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
True leaders live their values everywhere, not just in the workplace.
~ 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
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
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.
~ Stan Slap
What managers want most from companies they stop themselves from getting.What companies want most from managers they stop them from giving.
~ Stan Slap
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.
~ Stan Slap
A manager’s emotional commitment is worth more than their financial, intellectual and physical commitment combined.
~ Stan Slap
Emotional commitment is a personal choice. Managers understand this even if their companies don’t.
~ Stan Slap
Values are deeply held personal beliefs that form your own priority code for living.
~ Stan Slap
Careful now: even a financially rewarding, intellectually stimulating work environment isn’t the same as living your own values.
~ Stan Slap
Values are the individual biases that allow you to decide which actions are true for you alone.
~ Stan Slap
Any expert will tell you that if you want emotionally committed relationships then people must be allowed to be true to who they are.
~ Stan Slap
When you’re not on your own agenda, you’re prey to the agenda of others.
~ Stan Slap
Leadership creates performance in people because it impacts willingness; it’s a matter of modeling, inspiring, and reinforcing.
~ Stan Slap
Management controls performance in people because it impacts skills; it’s a matter of monitoring, analyzing and directing.
~ Stan Slap
To integrate one’s experiences around a coherent and enduring sense of self lies at the core of creating a user’s guide to life.
~ Stan Slap
Leaders are people who know exactly who they are. They know exactly where they want to go. They’re hell-bent on getting there.
~ Stan Slap
Leaders make a lot of mistakes but they admit those mistakes to themselves and change because of them.
~ Stan Slap
Managers know what they want most: to be allowed to achieve success by leveraging who they are, not by compromising it.
~ Stan Slap
Companies should be the best possible place to practice fulfillment, to live out values and to realize deep connectivity and purpose.
~ Stan Slap
When you don’t know what true for you, everyone else has unusual influence.
~ Stan Slap