Cy Wakeman > Quotes

“We over-manage and under-lead, trying to control people rather than connecting to them and developing their potential.”
― Cy Wakeman, Reality-Based Leadership: Ditch the Drama, Restore Sanity to the Workplace, and Turn Excuses into Results

“In fact, employee evaluations, if you keep them at all, should be centered not on past performance but on readiness for the future.”
― Cy Wakeman, No Ego: How Leaders Can Cut the Cost of Workplace Drama, End Entitlement, and Drive Big Results

“Our circumstances aren't the reasons we can't succeed. They are the circumstances in which we must succeed.”
― Cy Wakeman, No Ego: How Leaders Can Cut the Cost of Workplace Drama, End Entitlement, and Drive Big Results

“We talk more about our people than we do to them.”
― Cy Wakeman, Reality-Based Leadership: Ditch the Drama, Restore Sanity to the Workplace, and Turn Excuses into Results

“Whether you believe something possible or impossible -- either way, you will be right.”
― Cy Wakeman, Reality-Based Leadership: Ditch the Drama, Restore Sanity to the Workplace, and Turn Excuses Into Results

“Gratitude fused with generosity expands the blessing. A practice of gratitude that fuels generosity can change other people’s lives in an impactful way. Breathe in gratitude, breathe out generosity. Repeat. A vital, virtuous cycle.”
― Cy Wakeman, Life's Messy, Live Happy: Things Don't Have to Be Perfect for You to Be Content