Quotes about leaders
leadership style quality
Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage. John W. Gardner
leadership lasts firsts
The first and last task of aleader is to keep hope alive.
leadership unqualified facts
If the modern leader doesn't know the facts, he is in grave trouble, but rarely do the facts provide unqualified guidance.
leadership hope alive
A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.
leadership engagement different
It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something very different. John Templeton
leadership advertising scales
Yahoo! is the only company with both scale and leadership in branded and search advertising. Terry Semel
leadership strong government
We need to awaken the next generation to understand that we are all change-makers. The nation is not as strong as its government but its next generation Nick Vujicic
leadership sports mean
You've got to realize that in any competition there is always a winner and loser. When it turns out that you're the loser on a given day, you can be a graceful loser, but it doesn't mean that you're a loser in the sense that you're willing to accept losses readily. Concede that on that day you weren't the best and that you were beaten in competition. But that should make you more dedicated and hard working. It's wrong to accept defeat as a loser. Be graceful about losing, but don't accept it. Nolan Ryan
leadership senior people
Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
leadership leader decision
Leaders make decisions that create the future they desire. Mike Murdock
leadership organization joy
Work without joy is drudgery. Drudgery does not produce champions, nor does it produce great organizations. John Wooden
leadership basketball teamwork
The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
leadership might purpose
Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right." Max Stirner
leadership art belief
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. Max de Pree
leadership responsibility reality
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.
leadership important needs
In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
leadership needs followers
A good leader needs to stand behind his or her followers as often as he or she needs to stand in front of them. Marilyn vos Savant
leadership moving want
Do not tell them how to do it. Show them how to do it and do not say a word. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves. Maria Montessori
leadership basketball motivational-sports
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way. Pat Riley
leadership sports use
Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement. Plato
leadership taken new-beginnings
The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken.
leadership goliath business-leadership
It's alright to be Goliath but always act like David. Phil Knight
leadership teaching people
People learn the most when teaching others. Peter Drucker
leadership want forget
If you want it, measure it. If you can't measure it, forget it.
leadership jobs deployment
The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass. She therefore makes sure she puts into the leadership position, into the standard-setting, the performance-making position the person who has the strength to do the outstanding pacesetting job. This always requires focus on the one strength of a person and dismissal of weaknesses as irrelevant unless they hamper the full deployment of the available strength.
leadership average needs
No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
leadership leader made
Leaders grow; they are not made.
leadership responsibility leader
The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.
leadership jobs maturity
The person who will make the greatest contribution to a company is the mature person-and you cannot have maturity if you have no life or interest outside the job.
leadership mean responsibility
Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank.
leadership opportunity thinking
Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.
leadership sight personality
Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
leadership wise responsibility
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.