4 Quotes by Rob Asghar

When you become a leader, every circumstance you face will be one that tends to overinflate your ego and set you up for failure.

The Single Biggest Reason Talented People Fail Many gifted, intelligent, charming, decent, charitable and hard-working people fail. One should go so far as to say that most such people fall short of their dreams or at least their potential, because of one reason: They failed to identify in themselves an Achilles’ heel that was common knowledge to other people.

The reality is that insincerity is that force that holds society together. Ambrose Bierce defined politeness as “the most respectable hypocrisy.

As a leader, you have to have an almost infinite love for your organization or your cause to be able to find advisers who won’t simply parrot your views. The parroting isn’t necessarily a consequence of their selfishness or their desire for self-preservation. It’s because of the “loyalty bind,” which gives them an exaggerated view of your effectiveness.