Let’s get right on top of the bottom line: You must live your personal values at work.

— Stan Slap

Leadership creates performance in people because it impacts willingness; it’s a matter of modeling, inspiring, and reinforcing.

— Stan Slap

To integrate one’s experiences around a coherent and enduring sense of self lies at the core of creating a user’s guide to life.

— Stan Slap

Your dreams and the dreams of your company may be different, but they are in no way incompatible.

— Stan Slap

Being relevant to your customers only when you’re trying to sell something means choosing to be irrelevant to them for the rest of the time.

— Stan Slap

What managers want most from companies they stop themselves from getting.What companies want most from managers they stop them from giving.

— Stan Slap

There will be plenty of other problems in the future. This is as good a time as any to get ahead of them.

— Stan Slap

Do you think your people struggle with being true to themselves? Do their values match up with their work?

— Stan Slap

Profitability. Growth. Quality. Exceeding customer expectations. These are not examples of values. These are examples of corporate strategies being sold to you as values.

— Stan Slap

The purpose of leadership is to change the world around you in the name of your values, so you can live those values more fully.

— Stan Slap