Quotes about leadership
leadership sports baseball
Inner peace is not found in things like baseball and world championships. As long as I feel I've done the best job I possibly could, I'm satisfied. Sparky Anderson
leadership focus clarity
Clarity affords focus. Thomas Leonard
leadership battle half
Half-heartedness never won a battle. William McKinley
leadership self-esteem quality
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. William James
leadership motivation philosophical
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
leadership kings rain
But me thought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain. Samuel Pepys
leadership character men
The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron. Samuel Smiles
leadership skills people
People who know what they want and why they want it, and have the skills to communicate that to others in a way that gains support Warren G. Bennis
leadership skills followers
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
leadership jobs reality
The first job of a leader is to define a vision for the organization...the capacity to translate vision into reality.
leadership world hospitality
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
leadership vision hospitality
The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.
leadership art boys
I'd always rather err on the side of openness. But there's a difference between optimum and maximum openness, and fixing that boundary is a judgment call. The art of leadership is knowing how much information you're going to pass on - to keep people motivated and to be as honest, as upfront, as you can. But, boy, there really are limits to that.
leadership dream believe
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
leadership running thinking
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation.
leadership opposites future-leaders
That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
leadership groups great-leader
Without a terrific leader, you're not going to have a Great Group. But it is also true that you're not going to have a great leader without a Great Group.
leadership organization wake-up
A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless ... someone's got to make a wake up call.
leadership ideas want
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally, and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures
leadership wise reality
Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.
leadership eye horizon
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
leadership people followers
The new leader is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change.
leadership music dance
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
leadership labels born-leaders
I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.
leadership followers telling-the-truth
Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
leadership eye views
The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
leadership managers asks
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
leadership leader makers
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
leadership iron soul
The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom-as something they thought was almost a necessity. It's as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need.
leadership believe unique
Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should they be. Effective leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do.
leadership weather mountain
Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.
leadership future-leaders born-leaders
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born...
leadership business failure
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.