Quotes about Leadership Dynamics

Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.

Disagreement on issues doesn't mean 'dissension.' All it means is that honest men can differ in their approach. You lay out your positions, and president makes a decision.

Russians in top positions always told me, 'We don't want to deal with our allies the way that the Americans dealt with Mubarak,' which is a very live example in the minds of many.

Often, when people like me are elected or appointed to positions of senior leadership, the rules of the game seem to change.

Fight hierarchy and bureaucracy as hard as you possibly can. Don't ever let it become the master; always remember it's the servant.

I don't want the United States to be Athens on the Potomac.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Entrepreneurs should never work with big corporations.

I am a salesman, I am an executive, I look at budgets, I think about power politics, but then I am also a creative person.

There are still men in the professional or behind the scenes world that are controlling women to build credibility.

It makes a lot of people cringe, the idea of being a team player.

When I was in the PMO, Digvijaya Singh used to call me whenever he wanted to see the PM. He used to go through me. He is under compulsion to criticise me, but I am under no compulsion to criticise him.

Coaches are important, but the senior players at a club are crucial.

Politics - when it's not cynical, it can be a creation.

How can another man call another man boss? That's like calling another man 'Daddy.'

Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table.

Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

The other type of politician tends to be manipulative, selfish, and have unhealthy needs to be the center of attention. These people play games, start rumors, get little done but take credit for others' work, and jockey to been seen as indispensable to their leaders. Leaders who fall under this type of politician's spell often have teams with poor morale and performance. Partners

The Renaissance idea of individualism never penetrated Africa like it did Europe and America. The African model of leadership is better expressed as ubuntu, the idea that people are empowered by other people, that we become our best selves through unselfish interaction with others.

Just as kingly rule is the best, so is the rule of the tyrant the worst.

You were wrong. She really is the new general in town." I smiled back, hoping he wasn't aware of my body's reaction to us standing so close. "Maybe. But, it's okay. You can still be colonel." He arched an eyebrow. "Oh? Did you demote yourself? Colonel's right below general. What's that make you?" I reached into my pocket and triumphantly flashed the CR-V keys I'd swiped when we'd come back inside. "The driver," I said.

Zeb should command while Jacob handled space-time controls—to each his own. Jacob had asked me to please take orders from Zeb with no back talk … which had miffed me a little.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity. Make your masters appear more brilliant than they are and you will attain the heights of power.