Quotes about Flexible Leadership

Sometimes when somebody wants to take the lead it's nice to take a back seat.

The best thing about being a business owner is that you get to run your own schedule.

Most of the places I came from, you gotta do a lot of gunslinging or coaching by the seat of your pants.

I think it is always going to be true that a person who manages programmers should not expect it to be predictable.

You have to be ready for anything. It's a good reminder about democracy. Voters can tell you to carry on, or chuck you out. You've got to be ready for both.

Unless, as leaders, we are willing to enter this in-between space that disrupts our settled assumptions and threatens our formulas and expectations, we will remain locked into a monologue of church questions and strategies.

There are times where maybe I don't have as many carries, and we still win the game, I'm going to be fine. I'm not really trippin' about the stats if we're winning the game.

That's what being a front man is all about - the idea of having something supple underneath you, that machine that roars and can turn on a dime.

A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be.

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

his was a profession in which a good leader constantly had to adapt to new weapons, whether he liked them or not

Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.

As a player you appreciate a manager who can maybe compromise a bit in his own ways for the good of the team.

On two occasions, the person I had chosen as airplane captain came through as environmental leader in this second exercise. These exercises reinforced my belief that leadership indeed depends on the situation. As circumstances change, leadership must change. A certain set of skills, instincts, and personality traits may be perfect today, but useless tomorrow.

Exchanging the old boss for a new boss is not situational leadership. True situational leadership—flexible, effective, evolutionary—can only arise from self-management. And that means that situational leadership doesn't change fundamentally with circumstances. It is always about giving up control.

Mike Schur knows exactly what everything should look like but, at the same time, is super collaborative and loves working with actors that make choices and bring stuff to the table.

But their refuge had been a dead end; all that inflexible old guard could do was to die and let younger minds, still limber, take over.

as a manager in such a workplace, you need to develop a higher tolerance for disorder.

The ability to recognize that the winds have shifted and to take appropriate action before you wreck your boat in crucial to the future of an enterprise

One of our pastors, John Hambrick, has a saying that we've adopted organization-wide. He says, "We walk toward the messes." In other words, we don't feel compelled to sort everything or everyone out ahead of time. We are not going to spend countless hours creating policies for every eventuality.

I like a person that's a little crazy and demanding, but I also like a woman that knows how to let me drive and then knows when to take the wheel. I may have a down day, and I need someone to be there for me as I would be there for them.

They call me The Tinkerman. Wherever I go people say 'Ah ha, there is The Tinkerman.'

Leaders are not dogmatic. They are principled and know that change is never easy, but when it's necessary, they must lead.

When it suited his convenience, Jefferson set aside his small-government credo with compunction.