Associates

What all come to understand is that there is no such thing as a neutral exchange. You leave someone either a little better or a little worse.3 The best among us leave others a little better with every nod, every inflection, every interface.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Does the hard-skilled manager who sits in lofty obscurity lording over his reports trump the hard-skilled manager who walks among his people, who is known, seen, and respected by his people? While the former might win some success by forcing his hand for a time, his influence is fatally flawed because his power is not bestowed on him by his people.