Quotes about Leadership Dynamics

once you put a man in charge of something, you didn't ride him while he did the task.

Who was it you feared? Trace it, trace the fearing to a source. Not the mid-management collaborators, remember. Not those who only obey orders; just because the responsibility is everywhere doesn't mean that it's not somewhere. Trace it further, as far as you can. Scrutinize those in power behind the fear. Visualize them. There. Are women in the picture?

There's all of us adults, and one of him. We ought to be able to keep up. Why do I feel like he has us outnumbered and surrounded?

She opened her mouth once to speak, closed it, then finally ripped out, "Why aren't you on your way home? I gave you an order, Lieutenant!" Stuben, anticipating a warmer reception, was momentarily nonplussed. "We took a vote," he said simply, as though it explained everything. Cordelia

Someday, Miles, his boss ImpSec Chief Simon Illyan had once said to him, I hope you live to have a dozen subordinates just like you. Miles hadn't realized till now that had been a formal curse on Illyan's part.

By now, monarchy and aristocracy were standard code words for Hamilton and the Federalists.

Despite their similarities, Pratt was a timid executive who lacked Rockefeller's audacity and often felt slighted by him.

The political stage revolves many times faster than the stage of our daily existence. Regimes change, governing parties and their leaders change, but man lives just as he previously had—he still does not have an apartment or a job; the houses are still shabby, and there are potholes in the roads; the arduous task of making ends meet still goes on from dawn to dusk.

People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.

Whole part of the world is a mess under [Barack] Obama, with all the strength that you're talking about and all of the power of NATO.

We unfortunately live in a corporate world where group decision making is made to avoid failure rather than to achieve success.

If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.

Democratic nations often hate those in whose hands the central power is vested; but they always love that power itself.

Parties are a necessary evil in free governments.

The difference between a Welfare State and a Benevolent Despot is slight.

One is always a good master when one isn't the master

Madam, I pray you, be governed by me, or some other wise person. With respect, you are a woman and in need of masculine guidance.

ADMIRAL, n. That part of a war-ship which does the talking while the figure-head does the thinking.

He had discovered early in his military career that if one has an effective and experienced officer above, coupled with effective and experienced soldiers below, one need do, and know, nothing.

Strong leaders might like it when someone brings 'em a better idea, but weak ones never do.

the vast majority of men would far rather be told what to do than make their own choices. Obedience is easy.' The

For reasons rooted in mass psychology, the history of myth, and the changing face of America, this country cares deeply who is in charge of the Walt Disney Company and what they do with it.

You mean one human is good, but a hundred humans is bad?" "Exactly. One human is just a person. A hundred humans make a society. And societies have kings, and religions and priests, and all these other things serrin completely fail to understand

He had a smart crew, and if he spoke too much, they'd shut up and listen to him instead of volunteering their own