Quotes about Leadership Dynamics

Newt Gingrich has certainly seen his own empire rise - and fall.

I'm young enough not to be a rival to Mr. Basescu.

I'm not capable of being in a group where I'm not the leader. I did it once earlier in my career with Legacy, and that was cool because I was young and green and a rookie in the industry, but now no more.

I think it's fine when the mayor of the biggest city in Russia consults the president.

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

After more than 30 years in the dugout I have come to realise there is a need at many clubs for someone who can act as a link between managers and owners.

Americans are very big about loving the dog first, so when you tell them you have to set rules and limitations, a lot of people believe it's going to hurt their feelings. They're actually looking for you to be the pack leader.

All around the world, leaders are gaining more power. That's what this pandemic demands: a coordinated whole-of-nation approach with a powerful conductor at its center.

There is a paradox in politics that what it takes to get elected is not necessarily what it takes to govern, and my feeling is that trying to control things too much feels icky to me.

It is simply the view, and a view I think shared by most members of the party, that it is very difficult to have a leader that does not command the support of the parliamentary party.

My mother was the strong wife, partner, and co-worker Martin Luther King, Jr. needed to be an effective leader, and he said so on many occasions.

As far as funding and building a team, you being romantically involved with your cofounder really shouldn't play a factor in how you run the company and how you create a team or find resources. It's all about the partnership.

There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.

Jeremy Corbyn... love him. Right person, right time. He's like a poultice, drawing Blairite disease out of the Labour party.

the group needs to readily accept the choices and the direction of the dominant members.

Not until Plato's Republic was a type of politician created who would no longer serve as a loudspeaker, but rather as a receiver of quiet ideas – with little success, as we know, as the introduction of the quiet politician is yet to come. It would be a contradiction in terms, for politics, as the art of what is possible in noise, remains assigned to the loud side of the phonotope

Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell in the seventeenth

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The world hasn't changed that much; men still rule.

It was fine at the start but there's always politics in any band. It just happened that I always got more vocals than everybody else, so in terms of people wanting their voice heard, that wasn't happening. It made people, very bitter.

No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.

There were always sides to one committee—those who planned, those who planned and executed, and those who talked—that is, complained.

Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.

If you're dumb, surround yourself with smart people, and if you're smart, surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you.