Eikenberry Quotes

Deep down you know you can be remarkable. You shouldn't settle for anything less than your best self, reaching ever closer to your potential -- whether as a leader or in any other part of your life.

Recognizing and accepting both the responsibilities and the opportunities leadership offers you is a significant step in your development as a leader.

Focusing on others will give you more influence and power than focusing on yourself.

You have a wonderful child. Then, when he's thirteen, gremlins carry him away and leave in his place a stranger who gives you not a moment's peace.

As Eikenberry once put it to him, “If you had a choice about where to deploy thirty thousand new American troops, you would put five thousand into training Afghan forces, five thousand along the border with Pakistan, and twenty thousand in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas,” inside Pakistan. “That’s exactly the point,” Karzai answered. “You’re fighting a second-best strategy. You’re fighting Taliban foot soldiers in Afghanistan and destabilizing the country. You can’t play the game of saying Pakistan is your ally and telling me in private that they’re not.”14

Karzai believed that Pakistan should be the main effort of the American war. As Eikenberry once put it to him, “If you had a choice about where to deploy thirty thousand new American troops, you would put five thousand into training Afghan forces, five thousand along the border with Pakistan, and twenty thousand in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas,” inside Pakistan.

La victoria verdadera y duradera proviene de ayudarles a otros a que ellos también ganen.

Sin crecimiento y progreso continuos, palabras como mejorar, logro y éxito no tienen significado”.

the Col slammed his canopy and immediately started his engine.  Lt Eicher was calling trying to tell him what the DASC had said but he either didn’t hear or wasn’t going to pay attention.  We could hear him doing his engine accels once he taxied onto the runway and in a flash he was rolling down the runway. The fog was low enough now that we couldn’t see the tops of the pine trees.  We heard the “Whoosh” of the nozzles being slammed down and watched the aircraft jump into the air and disappear into the fog.  I think we both waited for the sound of an ejection or crash but all we heard was the aircraft at full power climbing away.      Todd turned to me and said, “That may be the last time we’ll see that man alive.”      Poor Lt Eicher was horrified and looked at Major Eikenberry with this look on his face and said, “What do I do now?

La confianza se basa en pruebas. Sin ellas, no tenemos de otra, sino tratar de adivinar si podemos confiar en las personas.

Pregúntate si la información te llega de manera proactiva o tienes que rastrearla constantemente.

Specific (Específica) Measurable (Medible) Actionable (Accionable) Realistic (Realista) Time-driven (Dentro de un marco de tiempo)

Los pasatiempos y el tiempo libre no estructurado son más importantes de lo que crees. Las actividades que alejan tu cerebro del trabajo a menudo despertarán algunas de tus mejores ideas, te harán más feliz y tu vida será más fácil de disfrutar.

Lo que sea que te haga feliz es de gran valor para ti, así que tómatelo seriamente.

Las personas con metas tienen éxito, porque saben hacia dónde se dirigen”.

Si intentas tomar el poder o reclamar autoridad, entonces, no estás liderando. Cuando tú logres liderar tal como veremos a lo largo de este libro, lo más probable será que se te otorgue mucho “poder”.

The battle between perception and reality will always be won by perception. If your team members don’t see the actions that show that you are thinking about them, want them to succeed, trust them, and more, it really doesn’t matter what you are thinking or what your intention is. Kevin has long said “people watch our feet more than our lips,” but when they are remote, they can’t even watch our feet very easily. If you are to be truly Other focused, you must diligently show it to others through your actions.