Quotes about Leadership Dynamics

I went from such a testosterone-driven show to the exact opposite, because 'Friends With Better Lives' is run by the ladies. I imagine it's close to what being married feels like.

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.

There is nowhere I encounter greater understanding for Israel's existential issues than in the Oval Office.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

I think the NBA just, overall, when you need somebody to blame, the first person that you go to is the coach. But at the end of the day, you need the right players that match each other. Not just the best players. Chemistry helps.

That's something that's so often overlooked in this game - the dynamics of the locker room.

When communication happens only over the hierarchy lines, that's a priori evidence that the managers are trying to hold on to all control. This is not only inefficient but an insult to the people underneath.

The Prime Minister keeps me on around here because I make him look good.

If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.

few groups of leaders actually work like a team, at least not the kind that is required to lead a healthy organization.

There's just a whole different attitude and vibe when you're not in power as when you're in power.

They looked plainly scared, except for one, a wiry boy with bright orange hair—not the largest of the lot, but the one who seemed to be in charge. He had an air about him, Alf thought, the look of a boy who doesn't miss much.

You can't command men in battle if they like you

It was a strange trek — the sullen leading the apathetic, followed by the confused, all tailed by the inveterately amused.

is a game as ancient as recorded history. Promote a troublesome thorn up and out of the way if you cannot crush him, and then, once gone, impose whatever was planned in the first place.

The machinery of a great party, and still more of a great conspiracy, needed careful and constant attention.

the men sit around in the square scratching their crotches and dreaming up their next war.

And indeed, who can doubt that everything would be different and better, if only England were ruled by village idiots and their drunken friends?

The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This is how the world changes:

He'd like to make you believe he's our leader, but it's more than Nicasia likes power, I like dramatics, and Valerian likes violence. Cardan can provide us with all three, or at least excuses for all three.' 'Dramatics?' I echo. 'I like for things to happen, for stories to unfold. And if I can't find a good enough story, I make one.' He looks every inch the trickster in that moment.

Peter the Hermit, Calvin, and Robespierre, each at an interval of three hundred years and all three from the same region, were, politically speaking, the Archimedean screws of their age, at each epoch a Thought which found its fulcrum in the self-interest of mankind.

I seriously don't understand how men came to rule the world," she'd said to her sister, Bridget, this morning,

If you have to tell someone they call the shots, they're not really calling the shots.