Leadership Quotes: Guidance for Todays Leaders - Page 25
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A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.Collection: Leadership
Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it’s unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume that there’s no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there’s a chance you may contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours.Collection: Leadership
I will always welcome joyfully any opportunity that comes my way to be of service to youCollection: Leadership
More than anything else today, followers believe they are part of a system, a process that lacks heart. If there is one thing a leader can do to connect with followers at a human, or better still a spiritual level, it is to become engaged with them fully, to share experiences and emotions, and to set aside the processes of leadership we have learned by rote.Collection: Leadership
Followers are the customers of the Higher Ground Leader, who strives to meet or exceed the outer and inner needs of followers.Collection: Leadership
In order to solve problems, information has to be shared; and not only information, but doubts, fears and questions.Collection: Leadership
It is the responsibility of leadership and management to give opportunities and put demands on people which enable them to grow as human beings in their work environment.Collection: Leadership
How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a group.Collection: Leadership
It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.Collection: Leadership
There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.Collection: Leadership
Lombardi has to have the highest threshold of pain in the world - none of our injuries hurts him at all.Collection: Leadership
Big thinkers are specialists in creating positive, forward-looking, optimistic pictures in their own minds and in the minds of others.Collection: Leadership
Until Sammy Baugh - pro football in Texas was a one-paragraph story on the third page of the Monday sports section.Collection: Leadership
[Margaret] Thatcher had just become prime minister; there was talk about whether it was an advance to have a woman prime minister if it was someone with policies like hers: She may be a woman but she isn't a sister, she may be a sister but she isn't a comrade.Collection: Leadership
In a team sport like basketball, every time you help somebody else, you help yourself.Collection: Leadership
Leaders are creatures of their environment, but unlike most creatures, they are also movers of it. As movers of and within the organization, they push it forward, at the same time shaping it as much as it shapes them.Collection: Leadership
Solution = Conflict + CollaborationCollection: Leadership
People who believe in themselves and in a cause greater than themselves can achieve great things-as long as they have a well-intentioned leader to point them in the right direction.Collection: Leadership
I came out to beat everybody in sight, and that's just what I'm going to do.Collection: Leadership
A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.Collection: Leadership
A leader has to appear consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent.Collection: Leadership
A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.Collection: Leadership
It is often said that the best leaders are those who serve.Collection: Leadership
A real leader has the ability to motivate others to their highest level of achievement; then gives them the opportunity and the freedom to grow.Collection: Leadership
Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement.Collection: Leadership
I didn't follow the policies of those already in the business. If I had, I would never have made a go of it. Instead, I started out with the determination to make a better nickel chocolate bar than any of my competitors made, and I did so.Collection: Leadership
A half-century after racing the Russians to the moon, the U.S. is barely suiting up in the international race to secure interests in the Arctic.Collection: Leadership
To function efficiently, any group of people or employees must have faith in their leader.Collection: Leadership
If you're a leader, you don't push wet spaghetti, you pull it.Collection: Leadership
I've prided myself on being in excellent condition-as good as any man in my profession. Now this doesn't come from sitting around on your rear end. This comes from hard, hard work.Collection: Leadership
The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers. ... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.Collection: Leadership
The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leader and followers.Collection: Leadership
We must move as quickly as possible to a one-world government; a one-world religion; under a one world leader.Collection: Leadership
It's very difficult to evaluate a leader in a very short-term perspective because to be a leader you must be able to have a long-term perspective. You must be able to carry changes which take many years. And this is why you can really only see whether it has been a good leadership after some years have passed.Collection: Leadership
The will to win is more important then the skill to win. It is possible to achieve only what you actively pursue. Cogito, ergo sum. I think, therefore I am. Keep your head high and work hard everyday, because you'll never get that day backCollection: Leadership
A coach is someone who always makes you do what you don't want to do, so you can be who you've always wanted to be.Collection: Leadership
I believe in women. I believe in myself. I believe in my body.Collection: Leadership
Turn off your mind, and focus on what you've got to do - task at hand.Collection: Leadership
This is a major strategic challenge affecting not only our military, but ultimately, America's leadership in the global world order, we are at a point where our national aspirations are at risk of exceeding our available resources.Collection: Leadership
Humility is always one play away.Collection: Leadership
A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. life with ups and downs is better than a flat life or one that goes in circles. Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.Collection: Leadership
He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a saint, or a mahatma or more likely a humbug but he certainly won't make a leader or for that matter a good soldierCollection: Leadership
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.Collection: Leadership
Leaders are like gardeners ... As leaders we are not only responsible for harvesting our own success but for cultivating the success of the next generation.Collection: Leadership
Our first responsibility as a leader is to create an attractive dream, to proclaim a destination, communicating it in detail to others who might be interested in joining our expedition.Collection: Leadership
One common behavior of late Stage 3 [in the process of a company's decline] is when those in power blame other people or external factors- or otherwise explain away the data- rather than confront the frightening reality that the enterprise may be in serious trouble.Collection: Leadership
Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into a great leader. All are to be tomorrow's big leaders - those who in solitude sit above the clang and dust of time, with the world's secret trembling on their lips.Collection: Leadership
No athletic director holds office longer than two losing football coaches.Collection: Leadership
No leader can possibly have all the answers . . . .The actual solutions about how best to meet the challenges of the moment have to be made by the people closest to the action. . . .The leader has to find the way to empower those frontline people, to challenge them, to provide them with the resources they need, and then to hold them accountable. As they struggle with . . . this challenge, the leader becomes their coach, teacher, and facilitator. Change how you define leadership, and you change how you run a company.Collection: Leadership