Quotes about Flexible Leadership

Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is merely a question of instituting signs and signals.

High-level creative exchange depends on both hierarchical and fluid power relationships.

Leaders have to be intensely aware and be bold and flexible enough to adjust course ahead of impending changes.

You don't know what's going to happen in our business a year from now... so you have to be flexible and adaptable, and that's what we try to do.

For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.

My practice is to take a sheet, write the song number in the left side, name of the production, and time of recording. Only when I have to fill the name of the singer do we look out to see who is free. When the singers we want aren't there, I end up singing it! That's how I became a singer.

When you deal with change, you have a couple choices: you can lead it and make the rules, or you can be a fast follower, or you can be a slow follower.

I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.

I like working with writer-directors because you can solve problems right there.

In practical terms, this means that leaders cannot afford to think in silos. Their approach to problems, issues and challenges must be holistic, flexible and adaptive, continuously integrating many diverse interests and opinions. Emotional intelligence – the heart As a complement to, not a substitute for, contextual intelligence, emotional intelligence is an increasingly essential attribute in the fourth industrial revolution.

Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.

Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuver. What is difficult about maneuver is to make the devious route the most direct and to turn misfortune to advantage.

I've always believed that. I'm not a guy who comes in with an offensive system, and we try to fit guys to it. I think it goes the other way. 'Here's who we've got. Let's put them in the right spots where they can be productive.'

It doesn't affect my authority if I change my stance on something. If I have to reconsider a decision, I will.

From the standpoint that you try to adjust your offense to your quarterback, you try to adjust your football team around your players. You do the best you can with the hand that you have, and you've got to add some parts along the way.

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

It's a stupid leader who can't turn follower when somebody offers him a wiser course

He told his commanders that war could not be "conducted on a green table" and was prepared to delegate authority so that they could respond to situations as they found them rather than how the high command expected them to be. He distrusted generalities and fixed precepts. The important thing was to keep the objective in view while accepting the need for "practical adaptation.

There are far too many politicians out there who take the wrong position and stick with it and never admit that they should do something different.

A ruler isn't always straight.

I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.

There can be no one best way of organizing a business.

The officer chiefly concerned, Mr Pullings, or the Maiden as the Kutaliotes called him because of his mild face and gentle manners, had but to hint that a wall, outhouse, chimney, dovecote might be in the way for it to vanish, plucked down if not by its owners then by his neighbours and the rest of the community.

Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is merely a question of instituting signs and signals.