Quotes About Leadership

Without a Mayaguez, or something comparable that we don't see in the immediate future, there is probably no one thing the President can do to himself to turn this situation around.

Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other.

This is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it once again points out how very important style of leadership, that is the way he does what he does, is to his perception.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.

Reagan's second chief of staff, said it best: no other President of the modern era was so much a presence in the affairs of state without being an actual participant.

In Bede's account, the "English people" derived their special significance from their conversion. Their Germanic ancestors, who worshipped several deities, such as Woden, were the longest-lasting pagan peoples in the former Roman Empire. Yet during the 200 years following Augustine's arrival they went from being pagan to being Christian. This is because conversion began at the top, with kings, queens and warriors.

John Churchill, soon Duke of Marlborough, was a rare phenomenon: a brilliant English general. He

One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure.

Twenty percent of any given group of salesmen will always produce 80 percent of the sales.

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong -- that's healthy.

Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Top management is supposed to be a tree full of owls...hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.

While Mark Antony paraded as Dionysus, and Sextus Pompey claimed Neptune as his father, Octavian officially called himself Divi filius, at the same time invoking the patronage of Apollo.

As may be seen, the majority of public priesthoods had a collegial structure;

The same goes for authority: looking like the real thing may have more impact than actually being it.

You want leaders driven by mission – not by adrenaline. No one wants to work with people who need to be heroes more than they need to be catalysts.

realizing you're not king can be the first step toward getting some real power.

Here is one scholar's description of life among the Navajo: "No one who actively seeks power is to be trusted. Leaders arise out of example and emulation. If someone is successful at growing corn, he is emulated and to that extent is a leader. If someone knows many verses to a curing chant, he is respected for that accomplishment and his status as a 'singer' is considerable. Politicking, handshaking Ã¢â'¬Â¦ have no place in traditional Navajo society.

Kedyko?vek ?udia pociÃ…Â¥ujú prítomnosÃ…Â¥ záhadnej a mohutnej sily, chcú uveriÃ…Â¥, že sa nájde spôsob, ako jej porozumieÃ…Â¥. Pokia? sa vám podarí ich presved?iÃ…Â¥, že ste k?ú?om k jej pochopeniu, môžete dosiahnuÃ…Â¥ vysoké postavenie.

The trick to developing a new computer or program, then, is not to hire a lot of smart people but to hire a few very smart people. This rule lies at the heart of most successful ventures in the personal computer industry.

Se imaginaban nuevamente en un desmesurado salón de muros encristalados cuyo centro lo ocupaba una mesa redonda. Sus cuatro secretarios con papeles en las manos y las plumas tras de la oreja se acercaban a consultarle, mientras que en un rincón, con los sombreros en las manos, inclinadas las cabezas canosas, estaban los delegados de los obreros. Y Erdosain volviéndose hacia ellos les decía simplemente: «O mañana vuelven al trabajo o los fusilaremos».