Quotes about Leadership Dynamics

I think you can be an enemy of Saddam Hussein even if Donald Rumsfeld is also an enemy of Saddam Hussein.

I'm very happy that Paul Ryan has decided to treat Donald Trump like a Zika mosquito: avoid contact, or you will be infected.

The real leaders cannot appear in the peaceful time; nor can the serious opposition emerge from within the peaceful atmosphere. Without an open confrontation, there is no opposition!

Working with one's boss is a totally different dynamic than working with a peer, especially when doing live or live-to-tape commentary of a genre as unique as sports-entertainment.

Le Pen is old; I'm young.

I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.

For it may happen to the commonwealth, as to the serpent in the fable, whose tail, rising in rebellion against the head, complained, as of a great grievance, that it was always forced to follow, and required that it should be permitted by turns to lead the way. And taking the command accordingly, it soon inflicted , by its senseless courses, mischiefs in abundance upon itself, while the head was torn and lacerated with following, contrary to nature, a guide that was deaf and blind.

When the boss is a way, work becomes a holiday.

MacArthur's worse than the Cabots & the Lodges-they at least talked to one another before they told God what to do.

Just because a group does not take its decisions by voting does not mean they have no understanding of the essence of democracy.

Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.

I would say that the energy on set is always the energy of the director because he's the boss.

I've never liked bosses telling me what to do.

Bosses will tell you they are looking for something different but they're not, actually.

Everywhere in life, everywhere in the world, there has to be bosses.

It is often suggested that the A.N.C. is controlled by the Communist Party, by Communists. Well, I have been long enough in the A.N.C. to know that that has never been true.

When the band first formed, everybody had been sidemen. So they said, 'In this band there are no sidemen,' and when I joined the band, it was still the same. There were some power struggles emerging, because Henley and Frey had sung all the hits at that point.

India is no longer a constitutional democracy but a populist one.

You're the new squadron commander,' Colonel Cathcart had shouted rudely across the railroad ditch to him. 'But don't think it means anything, because it doesn't. All it means is that you're the new squadron commander.

Metcalf, is that your foot I'm stepping on?' 'No, sir. It must be Lieutenant Scheisskopf's foot.' 'It isn't my foot,' said Lieutenant Scheisskopf. 'Then maybe it is my foot after all,' said Major Metcalf. 'Move it.' 'Yes, sir. You'll have to move your foot first, colonel. It's on top of mine.' 'Are you telling me to move my foot?' 'No, sir. Oh, no, sir.

Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men

I've Got Him! You've got to keep at her. Forget all your training--she's fought you a thousand times. Don't presume to run my team, you little tart- (Colossus throws Emma at Danger) Yes. I see how it works. Normally, I wouldn't have done that.

You may be great to serve under, difficult to serve alongside, but you sure are hell to serve over!

The general once described Eisenhower as "the best clerk I ever had," and after serving MacArthur as an aide in both Washington and the Philippines, Eisenhower was well versed in his theatrical ways. "In many ways MacArthur is as big a baby as ever," Eisenhower noted. "But we've got to keep him fighting." 20