“Future leaders will be less concerned with saying what they will deliver and more concerned with delivering what they have said they would.”

— Dave Ulrich

David Ulrich cited in: Stephen Covey (2006), The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything, p. 172

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