"Notes" of An Elder

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"Notes" of An Elder is a depository of pertinent information, knowledge and wisdom. Available weekly will be an elder's "thinking menu" for your use. Enjoy this bounty.

• Nobody needs a boss. Everybody needs a leader.

• Before you can be good, you’ve got to be bad.

• The biggest risk of all is to take no risks.

• What’s popular isn’t always right and what’s right isn’t always popular.

• Nothing destroys a good impression faster than overstaying your welcome.

• “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.” ― Nelson Mandela

• If you can’t truly help someone, at least don’t hurt them.

Advice

To be persuasive, we must be believable. . .

To be believable, we must be credible . . .

To be credible, we must be truthful.

― Edward R. Murrow

• Managers know the right answers. Leaders know the right questions.

• I can’t free myself from a mistake until I acknowledge that I made one.

• We have within us two guides ― the ego and the heart.

• Forty years ago, I knew everything. Now I know nothing.

• You can’t change what you don’t know. So being able to recognize the problem is half the solution.

• I need to stop worrying about finding the right answers and learn to ask myself the right questions.

Magic Question

What am I not doing that I should be doing?