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“One thing about Sam is that you always know exactly where you stand with him.”

“The main thing is that greatness is doable. Greatness is many, many individual feats, and each of them is doable.”― Angela Duckworth, “Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance”

"Peace is not absence of conflict; it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means."—Ronald Reagan

“The most essential quality for leadership is not perfection but credibility. People must be able to trust you.”

A few days after he took over as interim head football coach at Clemson University in the middle of the 2008 season, the (then) 38-year-old Dabo Swinney, with no head coaching experience, attended a breakfast with the board of trustees that would set the tone for the championship program he intended to build.

Simon Sinek, author of the perennial bestseller “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Action,” put it best when he said, “Customers will never love a company until the employees love it first.”

When you think about it, no matter what industry you’re in, the market landscape is shifting at an unprecedented pace. And if our organizations are going to stay on the cutting edge and achieve sustainable success, we must continually make adjustments.

It’s easy to keep our integrity intact when things are going well—when our leadership status or company success is not threatened.

“Most organizations exploit only a fraction of the knowledge, experience, and intellectual capital that is available to them. But the healthy ones tap into almost all of it.”

“We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.”

These words by Abraham Lincoln capture the essence of what maturity looks like in a leader.