Quotes about Leadership Dynamics

Michael Owen was made a captain ahead of me.

Culture is what happens when the CEO isn't in the room.

Coming from the sports world, I'm interested in the secrets of team culture and chemistry.

Firms that claim domain focus are late movers.

Everybody can win things with 25 superstars in the squad.

I probably do better when I'm in charge. But it's good to be able to be a part of something and be a supporter and help make a project work.

The premise was that people were sheep, except when they were wolves, and the solution was to find out how best to herd them. But the sociologists would stand all this on its head.

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It was a part he felt himself feeling his way into, and the longer it went on, the more the men around him confirmed him in his role. It was as if they were willing him into being, as though there had to be a Big Fella, and, having desperate need of such, their growing respect, their whispered asides, their opinion of him - all this trapped him into behaving as everything he knew he was not. As if rather than him leading them by example they were leading him through adulation.

Part of running a successful tyranny is knowing when and how to let your subjects off the leash

But if you remove a tyrant in anything other than an open and visible way, another tyrant soon stands up to replace him.

A dog has a military mind. He respects the chain of command. He needs to know who's in charge for the good of the whole pack, and if there's no leader, he'll take the job himself- because somebody has to. The difference between a human and a dog, though, is that the dog doesn't lie awake at night dreaming of having that power. p341

All the States and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedoms.

Yes, he [Mahatma Gandhi] was a great man. However...between me and Gandhi there was never the understanding there was between me and my father.

Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

A man must feel he runs things, but as long as you control yourself, you control him.

[Muhammad] Ali had [Jo] Frazier , that man had the joker, Coke had Pepsi and [Donald] Trump had [Barack] Obama, or 16 primary opponents or the entire political establishment.

Anyone who critically analyzes a business learns this: that the success or failure of an enterprise depends usually upon one man.

Never let a little man to sit on a big chair; that would be a big disaster!

The guy who's in charge isn't going to be the front man, ever.

when men in politics are together, testosterone poisoning makes them insane.

The world hasn't changed that much; men still rule.

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.