Leadership Quotes: Guidance for Todays Leaders - Page 32

Empower your leadership journey with quotes from successful leaders. Gain insights to lead effectively and inspire others. Page 32 provides more leadership quotes.

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It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.
- Andy Hargreaves
Collection: Leadership
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Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students.
- Andy Hargreaves
Collection: Leadership
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One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.
- Andy Hargreaves
Collection: Leadership
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Blame and betrayal are the emotional enemies of improvement.
- Andy Hargreaves
Collection: Leadership
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The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.
- Andy Hargreaves
Collection: Leadership
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Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.
- Andy Hargreaves
Collection: Leadership
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You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.
- Andy Hargreaves
Collection: Leadership
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On school culture: It's hard to eat something you've had a relationship with.
- Andy Hargreaves
Collection: Leadership
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Renowned management guru Peter F.Drucker looked back at his 65-year consulting career shortly before he died. He concluded that great leaders could either be 'charismatic or dull' or 'visionary or numbers-orientated,' but the most inspiring and effective managers he knew all had said we rather than I.
- Robert I. Sutton
Collection: Leadership
Image of Subir Chowdhury
Careful, intelligent listening is a crucial step on the road to organizational success.
- Subir Chowdhury
Collection: Leadership
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And it falls to a true leader to see to it that his or her people have an inspiring vision to pursue.
- Bill Byrd
Collection: Leadership
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True leaders are the first to admit that they don't know everything and that they need help.
- Bill Byrd
Collection: Leadership
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If a leader's actions don't back up his or her words, those who are trying to follow will first grow confused.
- Bill Byrd
Collection: Leadership
Image of Charles E. Rice
Think of managing change as an adventure. It tests your skills and abilities. It brings forth talent that may have been dormant. Change is also a training ground for leadership. When we think of leaders, we remember times of change, innovation, and conflict. Leadership is often about shaping a new way of life. To do that, you must advance change, take risks, and accept responsibility for making change happen.
- Charles E. Rice
Collection: Leadership
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You can only make so much money in life and only enjoy so many creature comforts. The important thing is to do something meaningful-to leave something behind.
- Roone Arledge
Collection: Leadership
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The unknown is the governing principle of war.
- Ferdinand Foch
Collection: Leadership
Image of Iris Origo
We are being governed by the dregs of the nation - and their brutality is so capricious that no one can feel certain that he will be safe tomorrow.
- Iris Origo
Collection: Leadership
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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
Collection: Leadership
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I believe that the mindset that allows you to spend your working life thanking and congratulating people rather than being unpleasant to them is the mainstay of good leadership.
- Tim Waterstone
Collection: Leadership
Image of Enzo Ferrari
I gave (my drivers) three things: a sense of optimism, a creative environment, and the ultimate motivator-competition. By competing with each other in-house, we wound up beating our rivals.
- Enzo Ferrari
Collection: Leadership
Image of Diana Whitney
Positive questions bring out the best in people, inspire positive action, and create possibilities for positive futures.
- Diana Whitney
Collection: Leadership
Image of Geraldine Ferraro
Some leaders are born women.
- Geraldine Ferraro
Collection: Leadership
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Dedicate yourself to a core set of values. Without them, you will never be able to find personal fulfillment, and you will never be able to lead effectively.
- Kenneth I. Chenault
Collection: Leadership
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Recognize that being one of the only black people in an organization, or just in a meeting, automatically makes you very visible. Use this to help yourself. Look at it as an opportunity, and leverage that opportunity by making a visible contribution.
- Kenneth I. Chenault
Collection: Leadership
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Whenever I think about an issue, I always argue the opposite side of it. So, when I ultimately decide on a course of action, I've already been through all the conceivable scenarios, and I'm going to go for it.
- Kenneth I. Chenault
Collection: Leadership
Image of Bob Corker
Right now, the leadership in Iran is telling their citizens one thing. Our President is telling us another.
- Bob Corker
Collection: Leadership
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The more princes abstain from touching the wealth of their people, the greater will be their resources in the wants of the state.
- Pulcheria
Collection: Leadership
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Purpose is a soft virtue- but it's what gives you steel in your spine.
- Rich Karlgaard
Collection: Leadership
Image of Dan Hampton
Don't be good, be great. Strive to be exceptional. Picture yourself making a great play. Don't let anyone stop you.
- Dan Hampton
Collection: Leadership
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Employee engagement is an investment we make for the privilege of staying in business.
- Ian Hutchinson
Collection: Leadership
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As a player, remember that the bench is not a prison, but an extension of the first group. Concentrate on the quality of your play when you do get into the game. If you play 20 minutes, play the best 20 you can possibly play.
- Stan Albeck
Collection: Leadership
Image of Tracy Austin
Make sure your daughter's goal is her goal, not your goal.
- Tracy Austin
Collection: Leadership
Image of Clarence Benjamin Jones
We tend to select top men for their character and capacity, then overload them according to their willingness.
- Clarence Benjamin Jones
Collection: Leadership
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The leader is a person who has the possibility through destiny to know the people, to recognize their capacities, and to bring them to bear on the problem.
- Arthur Zajonc
Collection: Leadership
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When asked if he was a basketball player he replied No I clean giraffe ears.
- Elvin Hayes
Collection: Leadership
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The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence.
- Walt Disney
Collection: Leadership
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The United States has renewed our leadership in the Asia-Pacific, prime Minister Abe is leading Japan to a new role on the world stage.
- Shinzo Abe
Collection: Leadership
Image of Lynn Hill
When the pursuit of natural harmony is a shared journey, great heights can be attained.
- Lynn Hill
Collection: Leadership
Image of Gary L. Tooker
Success comes from a constant focus on renewal.
- Gary L. Tooker
Collection: Leadership
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No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.
- Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell
Collection: Leadership
Image of William Crashaw
When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius
- William Crashaw
Collection: Leadership
Image of Patricia Aburdene
"Spirituality" in business sounds lofty. How practical is it? The answer is "very." There's a fundamental way in which Spirit and consciousness contribute to worldly success-and it has long been ignored. [. . .] As experts, authors and gurus often note, the game of business is to influence the external world. But here's the point: How can you control your environment if you can't even manage your own thoughts and emotions? In other words, how do you rule the world without first mastering yourself? The cornerstone of effective leadership is self-mastery.
- Patricia Aburdene
Collection: Leadership
Image of Rebecca Aguilar
Lead by inspiration, not intimidation.
- Rebecca Aguilar
Collection: Leadership
Image of Harry Bates Thayer
It is easy to fool yourself. It is possible to fool the people you work for. It is more difficult to fool the people you work with. But it is almost impossible to fool the people who work under you.
- Harry Bates Thayer
Collection: Leadership
Image of Leonard Baskin
I think the leaders inevitably express the people they are leading.
- Leonard Baskin
Collection: Leadership
Image of Dwight D. Eisenhower
The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Collection: Leadership
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Senior members of the security establishment have not been entirely cooperative - let's put it that way - with the operations and still maintain contacts with FDLR leadership.
- Jason Stearns
Collection: Leadership
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It's the journey that matters. Learning is more important than the test. Practice well, and the games will take care of themselves.
- Tony Dungy
Collection: Leadership
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A good leader gets people to follow him because they want to, not because he makes them.
- Tony Dungy
Collection: Leadership