Leadership focuses on people. My definition of a leader is someone who helps people

succeed.

- Carol Bartz

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do

something you want done because he wants to do it.

- Dwight Eisenhower

True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the

leaders.

- Robert Townsend

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut

through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution

everybody can understand.

- Colin Powell

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not

more followers.

- Ralph Nader

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you

with their results.

- George Patton

Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right

thing.

-Warren Bennis

The best leaders … almost without exception and at

every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

-Tom Peters

Key Leadership Takeaways

• People focus

• Motivate

• Delegate

• Simplify

• Develop your people’s skills

• Communicate vision

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to

life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way

your mind looks at what happens.

- Kahlii Gibran

Take charge of your attitude. Don’t let someone choose it

for you.

- Anon

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

-Winston Churchill

The greatest discovery of our generation is that human

beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

As you think, so shall you be.

- William James

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t,

you’re right.

- Henry Ford

Excellence is not a skill.

It is an attitude.

- Ralph Marsten

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what

we give.

- Winston Churchill

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine

your altitude.

- Zig Ziglar

Key Attitude Takeaways

• Positive, happy mindset

• Consistency

• Can do

• Balance

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if

you just sit there.

- Will Rogers

Be willing to make decisions. That’s the most important

quality in a good leader. Don’t fall victim to what I call the

ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome. You must be willing

to fire.

- T. Boone Pickens

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep

moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t

quit.

- Conrad Hilton

The most successful people are those who are good at

plan B.

- James Yorke

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

- Gandhi

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

- Dorthea Brande

Change, BEFORE you have to.

- Jack Welsh

We don’t stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing.

- George Bernard Shaw

Key Action Takeaways

• Initiative

• Decisiveness

• Never give up

• Maintain options

• Walk the talk

• Ok to fail

• Adaptability

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication

and influence as to talk well.

- John Marshall

Effective questioning brings insight, which fuels curiosity,

which cultivates wisdom.

- Chip Bell

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no

substitute for paying attention.

- Diane Sawyer

Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your

door very softly.

- Frank Tyger

Real listening is a willingness to let the other person

change you.

- Alan Alda

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another

person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important

thing we ever give each other is our attention.

- Rachel Naomi Remen

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that

reflects it.

- Edith Wharton

The most important thing in communications is to hear

what isn’t being said.

- Peter Drucker

Key Listening Takeaways

• Listen, observe before speaking

• Question for insight

• Receptivity to others ideas

We don’t accomplish anything in this world alone … and whatever

happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one’s life and

all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that

creates something.

- Sandra Day O’Conner

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never

say “I”. And that’s not because they have trained themselves not

to say “I”. They don’t think “I”. They think “we”; they think

“team”.

- Peter Drucker

Passion isn’t something you have, its what you do and

share.

- Anon

The team with the best players wins.

- Anon

It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody

cares about who gets the credit.

- Robert Gates

None of us is as smart as all of us.

- Ken Blanchard

Teamwork divides the task and doubles the success.

- Anon

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the

team.

- John Wooden

Key Teamwork Takeaways

• Only we, no I

• Share passion

• Whole greater than parts

• No concern for being star

FINAL THOUGHTS

Actively manage your company’s culture based on

these mindsets, skills and core values

Make everyone accountable for these core values

Thank You !

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• mike@digitalsparkmarketing.com

About Dr. Schoultz

Dr. Schoultz has thirty five years of business development, marketing, technology, and business operations experience.

He served as VP / President of Distribution Technologies, a company he helped to found and grow to a 700 M + / year market leader.

Dr. Schoultz Ph. D. is from the University of Virginia.