Quotes about Leadership Dynamics

I'm your best bet to keep Roland from taking over." "Yes." "Young, in need of being taught." Evdokia crossed her arms. "Yes." "Easily manipulated? Emotionally compromised? Are these my best qualities?" Evdokia threw her hands up in exasperation. "I would just like to know the score from the start. So I have no disappointments later.

Get this,' the trader spoke forcefully and earnestly, 'there are five or six fat slobs who usually run an average planet. They get the rabbit punch, but I'm not losing peace of mind over them. See. The people? The ordinary run of guys? Sure, some get killed, and the rest pay extra taxes for a while. But it settles itself out; it runs itself down. And then it's the old situation again with a different five or six.

One of the challenges I think we have is people feel like the act of governance is a zero sum game. 'Whatever I get, you're not getting.' Changing that dynamic is going to be critically important for me as a leader, so that people don't feel they're pitted against each other.

The president can't succeed without Congress, and Congress can't succeed without the president. The image of one depends on the image of another. It is not a zero-sum game.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

I try to surround myself with people smarter than me - if I'm the smartest guy in the room, I change rooms.

He's the president. I'm the general. Unless I want to get impeached, I got to do what he says.

I believe that only a subset of us is meant to lead. The rest want to follow.

As long as Fidel Castro is alive we [the American Government] will not normalize relations with Cuba. We don't want it, and he certainly doesn't.

Leading a band is fun, but it's not always something I want to continually focus on. I have my toes in a lot of different things.

The reason why China suffers bitterly from endless wars is because of the existence of feudal lords and kings.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is insubordination. When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is collapse.

See, this is why no one lets you make the plans,

but I don't run Panem.

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.

Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.

The one source of criticism even the most repressive authoritarian leader cannot silence is the outside world. Autocrats are usually thin-skinned and like to be admired, so at least, at first, they often seek to be praised abroad.

In South America, there is no more room for alternatives to democracy.

we are made to follow leaders who can gather people together because the advantages of being in groups trump the disadvantages of being alone. It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one. Those who have followed the assertive idiot rather than the introspective wise person have passed us some of their genes. This is apparent from a social pathology: psychopaths rally followers. Once

the further from headquarters an employee is located, the more autonomous his unit, the more you want him to be a slave so he does nothing strange on his own.

Hey," he said, "how about you be Cleopatra, and I'll be Prometheus?

Chain of command knows no age restrictions, he once told Connor. You could be six, but if you were my superior, I'd still do as I was told.