Leadership Quotes: Guidance for Todays Leaders - Page 55
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History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for they know not what they should do.Collection: Leadership
In every company, there is not only the active and passive sex, but, in both men and women, a deeper and more important sex of mind, namely, the inventive or creative class of both men and women, and the uninventive or accepting class.Collection: Leadership
I can't very well preach unity and tell the guys we're all in this together and everyone's important, then cut a guy because we might improve by one percent if we bring in someone else.Collection: Leadership
Football is a vocation and an opportunity for ministry. But it's not a life.Collection: Leadership
I hired top-notch people, trusted them to do their jobs, and then came to grips with the fact that I wouldn't be coaching as much.Collection: Leadership
Once we had become locked in on a schedule, he (Coach Denny Green) often created a disruption (artificial adversity) to that schedule just to see how guys would respond.Collection: Leadership
We only wanted to pay significant sums to keep truly special players.Collection: Leadership
At the end of the day, the only people a One Voice doctrine silences are those who should be the most loyal.Collection: Leadership
There are certain bridges that are not worth crossing, no matter what others think. Loyalty and relationships are important.Collection: Leadership
I learned it doesn't matter how you win. You play to your team's strength.Collection: Leadership
Change isn't always bad; we should always be learning and improving. But the change I was seeing involved principles, not procedures.Collection: Leadership
If I can't get the captains to respond appropriately and show the leadership I expect, how is anyone else going to respond?Collection: Leadership
The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass. She therefore makes sure she puts into the leadership position, into the standard-setting, the performance-making position the person who has the strength to do the outstanding pacesetting job. This always requires focus on the one strength of a person and dismissal of weaknesses as irrelevant unless they hamper the full deployment of the available strength.Collection: Leadership
I...understand that age is kind of awesome. I am fortunate enough to know women like Gloria Steinem - who I think is one of the most stunning women on the planet - [who] doesn't touch her face. Diane Keaton, Annette Bening - all of these fabulous, fearless women who are flawless - they embrace it!Collection: Leadership
We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services, as we pay an architect, an engineer, or a lawyer. If any man has talent for righting wrong, for administering difficult affairs, for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry, for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county- town, or in Court-street, put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor, Mr. Johnson, Working king.Collection: Leadership
Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.Collection: Leadership
The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.Collection: Leadership
For, what is a family without a steward, a ship without a pilot, a flock without a shepherd, a body without a head, the same, I think, is a kingdom without the health and safety of a good monarch.Collection: Leadership
And therefore I am come amongst you at this time, not as for my recreation or sport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all; to lay down, for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even the dust. I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart of a king, and of a king of England, too.Collection: Leadership
Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank.Collection: Leadership
High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past.Collection: Leadership
Schools often get the teachers they deserve!Collection: Leadership
Deadwood did not kill itself!Collection: Leadership
Walking makes us take problems in our stride.Collection: Leadership
When creativity is the goal, schools must have their own platforms to network and innovate.Collection: Leadership
In healthy individuals, emotions don't distort rationality, they enhance it!Collection: Leadership
On government & unions: the only thing worse than blind trust is blind mistrust.Collection: Leadership
Schools cannot shut their gates and leave the outside world on the doorstep.Collection: Leadership
Leadership is the cigarette that's smoked once the change has been consummated.Collection: Leadership
Your most memorable students are in your first classes and your last classes: make your last years the finest of your career.Collection: Leadership
We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.Collection: Leadership
A brainscan cannot interpret itself and neither can a data dashboard in education.Collection: Leadership
We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"!Collection: Leadership
Sustainable leadership does not compromise the future by expanding and accelerating too quickly in the present.Collection: Leadership
High performance leaders know they have to breathe out when they are coming up for air.Collection: Leadership
The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script.Collection: Leadership
Educational reforms are like ripe fruit. They rarely travel well.Collection: Leadership
Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance.Collection: Leadership
Every solution has a problem.Collection: Leadership
Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time.Collection: Leadership
Trust processes as well as people.Collection: Leadership
If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable.Collection: Leadership
We learn more from people who are different from us than ones who are the same.Collection: Leadership
High performance leaders capitalize on crises to galvanize the motivation and actions of people in the organization.Collection: Leadership
Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.Collection: Leadership
The rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them.Collection: Leadership
Pompous asses knows how to put the moan in sanctimonious.Collection: Leadership
Teaching is an emotional practice: it activates, colors & expresses people's feelings.Collection: Leadership
Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves.Collection: Leadership