Leadership Quotes: Guidance for Todays Leaders - Page 31
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Wise leaders know that if an individual doesn't count, the institution doesn't count for much either. Put mathematically, if the individual is a zero, together a lot of zeros add up to a whole lot of nothing.Collection: Leadership
Successful leaders develop effective strategies for maintaining their boundaries. ... Most time bandits don't know any better. And being a time bandit is a matter of context. One person's time bandit is another person's pleasant diversion. ... Instead of gritting our teeth to be polite and resenting the time bandit for holding us up, the best choice is to be honest. We cannot expect another person to honor our needs unless we affirm them ourselves.Collection: Leadership
The essence of leadership is relationship; influencing people to achieve things together that can't be achieved alone.Collection: Leadership
The true leader makes each team member twice the person they were before.Collection: Leadership
Governor Sanders showed true leadership and character by supporting civil rights for all during a time when many were not, His lasting positive impact on our state will be felt by many future generations of Georgians.Collection: Leadership
Leadership: Lions led by donkeys.Collection: Leadership
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.Collection: Leadership
Here's a memonic device that I feel teaches how we can properly cope with failure. Forget about your failures; don't dwell on past mistakes Anticipate failure; realize that we all make mistakes. Intensity in everything you do; never be a failure for lack of effort. Learn from your mistakes; don't repeat previous errors. Understand why you failed; diagnose your mistakes so as to not repeat them. Respond, don't react to errors; responding corrects mistakes while reacting magnifies them. Elevate your self-concept. It's OK to fail, everyone does; now how are you going to deal with the failureCollection: Leadership
Events and developments that we have observed in 2014, prove that this year will be very difficult for the world economy, but thoughtful economic policy, diversification and unity between the country's leadership and people guarantee that this year will be successful for us.Collection: Leadership
Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.Collection: Leadership
A good coach is postive. Your job when coaching is not correcting mistakes, finding fault, and assessing blame. Instead, your function is achieving goals by coaching your staff to peak performance. Focusing on the positive means that you start with what's good and what works, and spend your attention and energy there.Collection: Leadership
Leadership is ultimately about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen.Collection: Leadership
Much of the present difficulty in industrial relations arises from the fact that too many employers as well as too many legislators take the Labor Leader more seriously than he deserves to be taken, while taking the ordinary, everyday, middle-of-the-road wage-earner less seriously than he deserves to be taken.Collection: Leadership
When they feel invisible, it's easy for them to leave.Collection: Leadership
Raw, real human conversation can be the most direct path to greater awareness and stronger relationships, even when it's unrehearsed and clumsy-perhaps especially when it's unrehearsed and clumsy!Collection: Leadership
The ability to choose cannot be taken away or even given away-it can only be forgotten.Collection: Leadership
First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen, President George Washington was second to none in humble and enduring scenes of private life. Pious, just, humane, temperate, and sincere; uniform, dignified, and commanding; his example was edifying to all around him as were the effects of that example everlasting.Collection: Leadership
I never wear a watch, because I always know it's now - and now is when you should do it.Collection: Leadership
There have been meetings of only a moment which have left impressions for life ...for eternity. No one can understand that mysterious thing we call 'influence' ...yet everyone of us continually exerts influence, either to heal, to bless, to leave marks of beauty; or to wound, to hurt, to poison, to stain other lives.Collection: Leadership
Success is a dangerous element in any endeavor. Embrace the struggle. Beware the achievement. For it steals your caution even as it leads you down the next unknown pathway.Collection: Leadership
Future leaders will be less concerned with saying what they will deliver and more concerned with delivering what they have said they would.Collection: Leadership
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.Collection: Leadership
With every episode of struggle, there is a learning opportunity.Collection: Leadership
I don't think we expect enough of students. They just need someone to show them the way.Collection: Leadership
There are no dumb questions?only dumb answers.Collection: Leadership
No philosophy, my son; it is of no use to an emperor.Collection: Leadership
A few mistakes don't worry me; what worries me is when you make the mistakes and then forget your role on the team and start to worry about your ego.Collection: Leadership
Those who are to change significantly that which they freshly encounter must themselves be changed by the changing of it.Collection: Leadership
Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.Collection: Leadership
My job is to teach them to believe they could perform better than they realize. Great coaches teach athletes to go beyond the barriers.Collection: Leadership
I've swum for my country, I've swum for my coaches and my schools and my teams. I decided this time I was going to swim for myself.Collection: Leadership
To have a successful career, you have to approach it as an entrepreneur, even if you are working for someone else. Your career is your own private business. You have to market yourself and your abilities and knowledge just as you would a product or service.Collection: Leadership
I have no patience with people who want to tell me what's wrong. I only want to hear from the person who first tells me the solution and then fills me in on the problem. I don't want to hear that your basement is flooded. I want to hear that you've found the number to the cleanup company. Then tell me why you're calling them.Collection: Leadership
On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure.Collection: Leadership
What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.Collection: Leadership
Change is easy to propose, hard to implement, and especially hard to sustain.Collection: Leadership
High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play.Collection: Leadership
The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning.Collection: Leadership
Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change.Collection: Leadership
All teachers are already leaders. It's in the nature of teaching.Collection: Leadership
Improvement is about doing something better; innovation is about doing something new.Collection: Leadership
A successful school has to engage all the people, all the powers, and all the capacities within it.Collection: Leadership
A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.Collection: Leadership
Teachers who believe they can make a real difference in their students lives REALLY do.Collection: Leadership
Teaching is a never-ending story. The work is never over; the job is never done.Collection: Leadership
Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them.Collection: Leadership
We must use collegiality not to level people down but to bring together their strength and creativity.Collection: Leadership
Lateral trust among colleagues is as important as vertical trust within the hierarchy.Collection: Leadership
Courageous leadership is not fearless leadership. What makes you a leader is how you deal with your fears.Collection: Leadership