Quotes about Leadership Dynamics

Products come and go, leaders come and go, trends come and go," says Yamashita, "but through all of that, you need to know the answer to the question What is true about us, at our core?

His wife "ruled the roast," and in governing the governor, governed the province, which might thus be said to be under petticoat government.

They were racing westward along the A89 Autoroute, the chief of the Israeli secret intelligence service and the future king of Saudi Arabia.

When leadership sets the goals by themselves they are not goals, they are quotas. And no one likes quotas.

Newt stood to join Thomas and jabbed a finger in his face. "You listen to me, Greenie. You listenin' all nice and pretty?" Thomas surprisly didn't feel that indimidated. He rolled his eyes, but then nodded. "You better stop this nonsense, before others hear about it. That's not how it works around here, and our whole existence depends on things working.

The Civil War was pre-eminently a political war, a war of peoples rather than of professional armies.

She, like other whites in the birth control movement, saw the role of Black leaders and health professionals as facilitating their organizations' efforts among the Black population. They incorporated Blacks in their advocacy to help raise funds and to give legitimacy to the movement's projects in Black communities. But Black members of advisory councils were not invited to participate in national planning, nor were they allowed to manage the clinics that served Black patients.

Grasping Armstrong by the throat came ultimately from R. B. Rutledge, though shaking him was Black's idea, and shaking him like a "rag" was Herndon and Weik's.

After years of operating in a top-down manner that emphasizes control and conformance, organizations are rife with obstacles to bottom-up ideas that front-line staff are forced to overcome.

They were following me because I was ahead of them, which is no way to choose a leader. Following someone simply because they're out in front is never a good idea, but it happens all the time.

I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having distractions. When you all stay together for a period of time you're not training people or feeling out different personalities.

Ahmed Patel and Sonia Gandhi are not too different political personalities.

Democracy should not work on the basis of personalities.

I like putting things together. The long game. Strategizing. Being able to mix and match personalities of guys.

Each director maintains a different personality. Either you get along, or you don't.

I don't hate Peter Robinson, and I don't think Peter Robinson hates me.

The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute.

I think there's something about wanting to stand in the spotlight. I think the ball is a spotlight, for example, and I think they want to stand in that. I a lot of times see - LeBron is a guy that vacillates between wanting to do that and then wanting to get somebody else involved.

You did so well today. All of you." "Thanks," Louisa said. "It's really fun. I hope we do it again next year." Not unless Hope found some other sucker to be in charge, she thought again. "I've had lots of fun, too," Olivia said.

And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader.

decision by consensus is inherently conservative.

The All-India Congress Committee had once elected representatives from the states, these in turn sent up by Congress bodies at the taluk and district levels. More significantly, the chief ministers of Congress-ruled states were chosen by the local legislators alone. However, after the Congress split in 1969, Mrs Gandhi was able to place her own candidates in key positions.

Raymond Tullock is like most men. His balls tell hiim he should be in charge, but his brain's just not big enough to steer the load.

I've always found when I was captain when other people were doing the talking for me, I didn't need to say as much, and when I did say one or two things, people tended to listen all the more.