Leadership Quotes: Guidance for Todays Leaders - Page 28
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Leadership happens at every level of the organization and no one can shirk from this responsibility.Collection: Leadership
I don't think either team can win it.Collection: Leadership
Assume responsibility for outcomes as well as for the processes and people you work with. How you achieve results will shape the kind of person you become.Collection: Leadership
The essence of power is the knowledge that what you do is going to have an effect not just an immediate but perhaps a lifelong effect on the happiness and wellbeing of millions of people and so I think the essence of power is to be conscious of what it can mean for others.Collection: Leadership
The world will not wait for us.Collection: Leadership
In sum, the truth is that we luxuriate in the comfortable assertion that women enjoy equality. We have salved our consciences by eliminating the more obvious discriminations like unequal rates of pay for work of equal value. But, in fact, we have not eliminated the inheritance of the millennia that women are lesser beings, an inheritance which still manifests itself in a whole range of prejudice and other forms of discrimination.Collection: Leadership
While society cannot provide employment for its members, the production/work/income nexus has to be abandoned as a justification for our present parsimony to the unemployed. An assumption cannot be used to justify making second-class citizens of those who are unfortunate enough to constitute living proof of the inaccuracy of that assumption.Collection: Leadership
No person among us desires any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation.Collection: Leadership
Communication is the real work of leadership.Collection: Leadership
Pakistan's political leadership needs to make a clear choice to fight the Taliban decisively, not with half measures, the burden is on Prime Minister Sharif to show he can unite the country to defend its children.Collection: Leadership
Leadership is an elusive concept, hard to describe and impossible to prescribe. It is more evident in its absence, so that when leadership is needed, its lack is sorely felt.Collection: Leadership
For Aboriginal leaders, the social and moral obligation that comes with community leadership is life-long. Those who lead, who have authority, must care for and look after those who come behind.Collection: Leadership
These Australians hear the whispering in their heart and know it can only be silenced by coming to terms with the original owners of this beautiful and bounteous land. Many Australians of goodwill sense that a moment for national leadership has slipped past us and is gone.Collection: Leadership
In a climate of uncertainty and fear, without strong and visionary leadership, people panic.Collection: Leadership
If leadership is the act of going beyond what is ... it begins by going beyond what is within ourselves.Collection: Leadership
If the experience of leadership is like being at the edge of an unfamiliar chasm, the act of leadership is building a bridge across that chasm.Collection: Leadership
Managers must see themselves as experimenters who lead learning, not dictators who impose control.Collection: Leadership
There is a difference between having a vision and suffering from a hallucination.Collection: Leadership
It's instructive to consider the more spectacular and well-known falls from grace of leaders in the public eye... In the main, the issues behind these falls could be grouped under a lack of competence, a lack of support or loyalty from those they sought to lead, and a lack of failure of integrity. Of all these the last is the most egregious, the most fatal. We so much want our leaders to be unfailingly decent that an obvious or perceived flaw in integrity can be the toxin which kills them off.Collection: Leadership
We want our leaders to be fair dinkum, as much among us as above us.Collection: Leadership
We all of us have a reputation, something we are known for, and sometimes it may be different from what we would like to be known for. At the core of this is the simple but fragile heart - our integrity - which is always under challenge, under tests both trivial and profound every day of our lives.Collection: Leadership
Communication is the conduit of leadership from the Prime Minister down to the leading hand of a small group of council workers fixing the roads. Leadership uncommunicated is leadership unrequited!Collection: Leadership
Let's start therefore with a universal truth: leaders are fundamentally accountable.Collection: Leadership
Our vision is to look through the eyes of our kids. We are a lucky, peaceful nation. We are an unselfish people. That's one of our proudest national attributes.Collection: Leadership
Leaders who fail to appreciate this fundamental precept of accountability must also fail to muster the profound commitment true leadership demands.Collection: Leadership
I must say that part of our national wealth is not only the nation's people but those people who lead them.Collection: Leadership
I saw one of my primary tasks was to do what I could to restore confidence, to ensure that people knew and cared about their predicament and that governments were committed to helping. Equally an optimism had to be engendered, a belief that not only would they recover but would emerge 'bigger, brighter and better than ever.'Collection: Leadership
In business, integrity is just as important as in any of the great public offices... but I believe one of the first and fundamental obligations of competent business leadership is above all to protect the reputation and integrity of the business - to that degree the integrity of the business is the integrity of the leader.Collection: Leadership
But the people of the disaster area fundamentally needed to understand that the rest of Australia had noticed their misery and their stoicism and their intense sense of community and determination to arise from the sodden wreckage of their homes, and that Australians would dig deep to help. I helped to describe the community ethos which quickly triumphed over incipient despair. It is this mobilisation of the unifying spirit that thrills us all, even as we mourn.Collection: Leadership
But it is my total conviction that all the trappings of good leadership are generic and widely applicable whether you are standing in a khaki queue with your mess tins or on an automobile production line.Collection: Leadership
What's emerging is a new synthesis of science, spirituality and leadership as different facets of a single way of being.Collection: Leadership
What you can't enforce, do not command.Collection: Leadership
You see it in schools all over... the concept that 'I'll be somewhat less than my best in order to make those around me feel more comfortable' is alive and well... I'm very keen that they understand that if they make themselves a little less than they can be, it is a one-way street to mediocrity.Collection: Leadership
Australia has got some of the best sports people in the world, but we've also got some of the best scientists and innovators too, and that needs to be celebrated more.Collection: Leadership
From an athlete's perspective, to cancel the Olympics in regards to the threats would be absolutely devastating - especially since the Olympics - it's really about people meeting together through sports and putting aside their countries' differences for that time.Collection: Leadership
One man and a dozen fools would govern better than one man alone.Collection: Leadership
The purpose of life is to matter and be ever mindful of the opportunities that we can both individually and collectively provide for others.Collection: Leadership
We can walk together to change the status quo.Collection: Leadership
An effective leader creates specific, achievable goals, initiates action and enlists the participation of others. They remove distractions; grasps the bigger picture, focuses on one task at a time; completes the task competently and organizes for the future.Collection: Leadership
Ordinary people need to lead and not sit there and think that governments are going to spoon-feed them and look after them and look after the country, because they won't.Collection: Leadership
When you go back to your environment and you deal with employees... do you inspire people or do you make them feel fear? Do you make them feel confident or incompetent? I think that distinction really marks the leader.Collection: Leadership
There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings.Collection: Leadership
The only prerequisites to leadership are that you remain positive, calm, and open-minded.Collection: Leadership
It's about people coming to an understanding, a realisation that we must bridge the gap, build bridges and make people aware of what's happening. The award gives me the kind of pride and understanding that most people wouldn't think of. It is strengthening the Yolgnu people, but it's also giving strength to Balanda people who otherwise don't have that kind of understanding.Collection: Leadership
For Indigenous peoples , the impact of separating us from our heritage goes directly to the heart that pumps life through our peoples. To expect a people to be able to enjoy their culture without their cultural heritage and their sacred belongings is equivalent to amputating their legs and digging up the ground and asking them to run a marathon.Collection: Leadership
God may not allow you to touch thousands but He may allow you to touch one who will touch thousands.Collection: Leadership
Satan will try to use our troubles to worry and weaken us. But God uses them to strengthen us.Collection: Leadership
God received from me something He didn't have on His own. My sin. I received something from God I didn't have on my own. His righteousness.Collection: Leadership
What seems over your head is always under His feet.Collection: Leadership