Quotes about Leadership Dynamics

When the boss is a way, work becomes a holiday.

There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.

Managers can sometimes hold players back for their own benefit.

How interesting that the Democrat, Martin Luther King, is identified with a principle that the Republican, Frederick Douglass, expressed even more eloquently so much earlier. How bizarre that the Democrats are presumed to be the party of civil rights when the very content of civil rights was formulated and developed by the GOP.

Even so, the proposal is interesting because Jackson was a Democrat—the founding father of the Democratic Party—while Tubman was a Republican. Admittedly

Do you want to speak to the man in charge—or the nurse who knows what's going on?

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

Little leading makes much following.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

About Edgar J Hoover "I'd rather have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in"

And everyone understood that Stalin was one thing and the country was another.

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

Reed will pull a Trump

As Knox had proclaimed, Elizabeth ruled from the head and Mary from the heart

Being number two gives you the glory of being at the top without the pressure of being number one.

Come, I have fed you well. Will you tell me your names?" They looked up. Their eyes darted like ferrets to their leader. He rose, the bench scraping on the stone. "Tell us yours first." There was something in his voice. I almost said it then, the spell-word that would send them to sleep. But even after all the years that had passed, there was a piece of me that still only spoke what I was bid. "Circe," I answered.

If a guy can successfully invade your space and get you to back down, he's won—he's alpha and you're beta.

Szilard looked over at Robbins. "Is it true?" he said. "Which part, sir?" Robbins said. "That you don't like General Mattson," Szilard said. "He can take some getting used to, sir," Robbins said. "By which he means I'm an asshole

and Vice President Tony Su. Su's presence was unusual. The president had reverted to the formerly common practice of giving the Vice President absolutely nothing of any importance to do. Su spent most of his time vising elementary schools and working on his putting.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

It's just been my experience that some kinds of working relationships are better motivated by fear than by monetary gain.

People can be divided into three groups: Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.

Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer.

It is quite possible for leaders to become self-promoting without realizing it. Over time, defending their reputation becomes important to retaining and growing control. They become harder to disagree with because of the combination of the control they exert within the formal structure and the relational support they can gather privately outside of it.