Quotes about Leadership Dynamics

teams facing significant performance pressure tend to default to high-status members at the expense of the most knowledgeable of the team members.

Asking 'Who ought to be the boss' is like asking 'Who ought to be the tennor in the quartet' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.

Congress is full of people who get reelected and reelected. How can you have urgency when there are all of those safe seats?

Politics abhors a vacuum.

Successful collaboration, in your mind, could be that your opinion is the most valuable and becomes the prevailing sort of direction. That's not collaborating.

populists have no problem with representation as long as they are the representatives; similarly, they are fine with elites as long as they are the elites leading the people.

society's structure created a conflict between the short-term interests of those in power, and the long-term interests of the society as a whole.

leaders sometimes make a difference. But it depends on the type of leader, and on the type of effect examined.

Now and again. Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it.

Very broadly speaking, you can put directors into two areas: One for whom you work, and the other with whom you work. And I prefer the latter, for obvious reasons.

Here's the problem, and here's what he's going to learn. I do not work for Donald Trump. Come the 20th, Donald Trump works for us. We're the boss.

Small unit democracy, I found early on, didn't work for me.

Manager' is a title, not a function. It's better to be one than not. Since you spend all day doing the job of the person above you, the higher up you are, the less you have to do.

People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.

To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.

My father has never influenced the strategy anywhere.

The saffron rule is prevailing in 22 States in India and we will strive to bring saffron rule in Tamil Nadu also.

A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure but that is different from controlling.

President Clinton intentionally created a structure that was a little loose. And one that kept him a little in the center. He didn't want one person filtering all the information that went to him. He had always operated with a lot of information coming in and a lot of stuff going out.

Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.

When you're leading 4-1, the opponent has nothing to lose.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.