Quotes about leadership
leadership believe organization
I believe that the capacity that any organization needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed. Margaret J. Wheatley
leadership hero roles
Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes. Margaret J. Wheatley
leadership motivation real
In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions. Margaret J. Wheatley
leadership motivation differences
It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do. Margaret J. Wheatley
leadership sports brother
The fellow that calls you 'brother' usually wants something that doesn't belong to him. Kin Hubbard
leadership moving grief
The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page in Australia's history by righting the wrongs of the past and so moving forward with confidence to the future. We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians... Kevin Rudd
leadership opportunity thinking
Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively. Peter Drucker
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. Peter Drucker
leadership wise responsibility
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. Peter Drucker
leadership personality empowering-others
The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. Peter Drucker
leadership should-have organization
People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are. Peter Drucker
leadership organization doe
Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future. Peter Drucker
leadership future-leaders great-leader
Leadership is defined by results not attributes. Peter Drucker
leadership wise funny-inspirational
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done. Peter Drucker
leadership jobs firsts
Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you. Peter Drucker
leadership teamwork jobs
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done. Peter Drucker
leadership sports love-you
The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours. Peggy Fleming
leadership people psychology
The universe stands aside for those people who know where they are going... Paulo Coelho
leadership wisdom country
Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom when Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his country where formerly he was not even allowed to vote. We were enlarged by tears of pride as we saw Nelson Mandela's former prison guards invited, courteously, by him to watch from the front rows his inauguration. Maya Angelou
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. Max de Pree
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. Max de Pree
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. Plato
leadership goliath business-leadership
It's alright to be Goliath but always act like David. Phil Knight
leadership commitment successful
He will return with a greater understanding of himself, greater leadership capabilities, better work habits, and a better knowledge of what it takes to be successful. It really depends on the young man's desire, commitment, work habits, and how important it is to him when he returns. LaVell Edwards
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