Performance, health and happiness are grounded in the skillful…

Performance, health and happiness are grounded in the skillful management of energy. Leaders are the stewards of organizational energy, in companies, organizations, and even in families. They inspire or demoralize others first by how effectively they manage their own energy and next by how well they mobilize, focus, invest and renew the collective energy of those they lead.

— from Fuel (Energy)

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Because you cannot do any of the rest on an empty tank. You cannot navigate wisely, you cannot love well, and you certainly cannot lead others when your own reserves are gone — which is why the best leaders understand themselves to be, above all, the stewards of the energy around them, their own and their people's. Your mood, which is simply the readout of your energy state, turns out to be the single most important key to whether you can actually use the good ideas you have. — Fuel (Energy)

The leaders who lift people up do it with a strange combination: high love and high discipline at the same time. They are stewards of the energy of the whole — in a company, in a team, in a family — and they raise or drain that energy first by how they manage their own. Never forget that the people under your leadership do not merely work for you — they experience you, or they are consumed by you, and they walk away from every encounter feeling either inspired or quietly diminished. — Leadership & Business (Leadership/Business)

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