CHAPTER 3
ASPIRE HIGHER
Continually Lift People, Performance, and Profits
You’ve got to get better. Everyone does. The torch of self-improvement should burn bright throughout your life. You will never “graduate” as a leader. You will never be granted absolution from the obligation to improve. The people you lead deserve your continuous work on yourself so you can do a better job for them. You’re not expected to be perfect, and too much perfectionism will interfere with your leadership (can you say, “micromanager”!), but you are expected to continue refining, shaping, strengthening, developing, advancing, and elevating yourself. You are, and always will be, a work in progress.
EARN IT
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