Came across these insights from a workshop I’d attended by Morris Shechtman a while ago. In sharing the best of these nuggets with you – caution – some may challenge your thinking, like they did mine: “In an era where information travels and technology spreads almost instantaneously, success requires that we look inside ourselves for solutions to our work-related problems.” Morris Shechtman, author of Fifth Wave Leadership: The Internal Frontier.

Which of these perceptions resonate with you?

1. The two key skills in life are the ability to make decisions and the ability to build relationships. Everything else is a distant second.

2. In today’s world, if you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get less than you’ve always gotten.

3. Sustainable organizations have charismatic cultures, not charismatic leaders.

4. The easier you are to read, the better you’re able to lead.

5. Don’t expect people to grow without feedback.

6. Goals are where you’re going. Values are how you going to get there.

7. Feedback is truly the gift that keeps giving.

8. Great risk goes with great opportunity – you can’t have the one without the other.

9. Your people are your greatest asset and your greatest risk.

10. Leadership is a perpetual exercise in managing conflict.

11. If you’re not judgmental, you don’t really care.

12. We lead our lives based on one of two theories: the theory of plenty or the theory of scarcity. We learn one of these well before we’re five.

13. Mediocrity is the choice to live with disappointment.

14. Disappointment is the catalyst for the next stage of growth.

15. There are no business problems – there are only personal issues which get manifest at work.

16. Successful people use feedback immediately.

17. People don’t resist change, they resist loss.

18. Personal growth is the key to retention.

19. Growth isn’t about more; its about new.

20. It is empowering to give people the dignity of their struggles.

Please share your favorite business success quote in the comments.