Quotes about Leadership Dynamics

Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.

A ruler who is loved is greater than a ruler who is feared.

An old black bull threw back his head and bawled when the cows behind him didn't keep up, as if telling them the breakfast buffet was about to be spread, and he wasn't waiting for grace.

When I got to GM they were using a matrix method of management which means everybody has more than one boss. I first heard about that system many years ago. It's supposed to help with collaboration, but my assessment is that it's pretty hard to get geared for action that way.

You cannot treat someone differently just because they have become captain. We still took the mickey out of Alastair Cook when he was in charge. You have to treat them first and foremost as a team-mate.

Being on a set where the director has lost control is just sickening. No one goes the extra mile, there's a lot of eye-rolling... it just breeds inertia. If a director is in control, the crew follow their leader. But the second anyone senses the directors are not sure, people just swoop in.

When I was the finance minister, I got on well with the RBI Governor.

Only a woman can tell you what it's like to be a woman in a society where men are in charge. When you have one demographic that controls the livelihood of minorities, then you're always going to have abuses of power. So this goes way beyond Hollywood.

The purpose of the minority is to become the majority.

Jose loved giving orders to the servants, and they loved obeying her. She always made them feel they were taking part in some drama.

While many Americans still believe that the Christian right is primarily concerned with "values," leaders of the movement know it's really about power.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

It didn't matter if someone else scored more goals or had more points or was the league's MVP; there might be many leaders on the team, but the Rocket was its spirit.

no matter what the client says the problem is, it is always a people problem.

Myth 2: Leadership is about individuals. In fact, leadership is a distributed or collective capacity in a system, not just something that individuals do. Leadership is about the capacity of the whole system to sense and actualize the future that wants to emerge.

Teddy had taken his shirt off and had streaked himself with mud. Dad said he looked like one of the boys from Lord of the Flies.

C'mon, Alec," Damien said. "Sung just wants us to win." "No," I said. "Sung only wants us to win. There's a difference." Damien and the others looked at me blankly. This was not, I remembered, a word-choice crowd.

which animal the ruler should impersonate depends strongly on what animals the followers are.

Let's play a little game I like to call Cole's in Charge and Ali's Not.

Five Dysfunctions of a Team, by Patrick Lencioni.

What got worked on was based on who yelled the loudest or most often, who could engineer the best side deals with the expediters, or who could get the ear of the highest ranking executive.

There's a chain of command: gripes go up, not down.

Curran growled deep in his throat. "That's impressive but not really informative, Your Furriness.

Leon speared his strawberry with a fork. "I, for one, welcome our new Mad Rogan Overlord. I'm eager to learn and prove to be a valuable member of his team." "Shut up," Catalina, Bernard, and Arabella said at the same time.