14 Quotes by Curt Coffman

People don't change that much. Instead of trying to put in what God left out, try drawing out what God left in!

Brand is how others see you, culture is how you see yourself.

Great managers play favorites and spend most of their time with their most productive people. Not because they discriminate, but because they deserve the attention and have so much to teach you.

Leaders must embrace those they need the most versus holding them hostage.

Eighty percent of all cultures are the same, it is the 20% that make a culture unique and slam dunks the brand promise to the customer.

Managers forget what it was like to be an employee and the qualities important for managers to have. Also, managers need to maintain strong relationships with the people they manage.

One mistake is that managers practice position-ship rather than leadership. They focus on constituency, the people they need the most and depend on, only caring about how they are viewed by the leaders above them, thereby following position-ship.

Most companies have become very good at measuring the engagement levels of the workforce. However, they do not take the next step to discover ways to build these engagement levels.

Employees will tolerate a lot from a great manager. But employees are very quick to leave a manager. The manager is the way in which all broader initiatives are translated and filtered and make sense to individual employees.