I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You've got to be truthful. I don't think you should be vulnerable every day, but there are moments where you've got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are, and not be afraid of it.

Howard Schultz
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More Quotes By Howard Schultz
  1. People want guidance, not rhetoric. They need to know what the plan of action is, and how it will be implemented. They want to be given responsibility to help solve the problem and authority to act on it.
  2. One of the fundamental aspects of leadership, I realized more and more, is the ability to instill confidence in others when you yourself are feeling insecure
  3. To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader.
  4. Work should be personal. For all of us. Not just for the artist and entrepreneur. Work should have meaning for the accountant, the construction worker, the technologist, the manager and the clerk.
  5. There are moments in our lives when we summon the courage to make choices that go against reason, against common sense and the wise counsel of people we trust.
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