Quotes About Leadership

The labour of those who enjoy the confidence of the Party is imperceptible. But it is a vast labour – one must expend one's mind and soul generously, keeping nothing back.

There is one right even more important than the right to send men to their deaths without thinking: the right to think twice before you send men to their death.

Only the Führer has the right to think, not that he has any great love of thinking—he prefers what he calls intuition.

Zoebarev, tweede luitenant – bevelhebber over de infanteristen

Uno Stato nazionalsocialista non poteva tollerare che la vita fluisse liberamente: essa andava guidata in ogni suo passo. Per indirizzare il respiro delle persone, il loro senso materno, un circolo di lettori, le fabbriche, il canto, l'esercito o le gite estive ci volevano dei capi, delle guide. La vita aveva perso il diritto di crescere come l'erba e di incresparsi come il mare.

All the chief knew for sure was that in hard times The People should hold together, and last winter they had not done so. They had inflicted an injustice on themselves and the two old women, and he knew that The People had suffered silently since that day.

Larry E. Greiner's classic Harvard Business Review article titled "Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Grow

Goals without routines are wishes; routines without goals are aimless. The most successful business leaders have a clear vision and the disciplines (routines) to make it a reality. "Routine sets you free.

To get to 10 employees, founders must delegate activities in which they are weak. To get to 50 employees, they have to delegate functions in which they are strong!

The 4Q refers to the four questions that we suggest leaders ask customers in person (not on a survey): 1. How are you doing? 2. What's going on in your industry/neighborhood? 3. What do you hear about our competitors? 4. How are we doing?

focus on three deliverables: • Reduce by 80% the time it takes the top team to manage the business (operational activities) • Refocus the senior team on market-facing activities • Realign everyone else (onto the same page) to drive execution and results

establish an effective daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual meeting Rhythm to keep everyone in the loop. Those who pulse faster, grow faster.

Graham Weston.

Do you have the "right people doing the right things right" inside the organization?

Leaders have to balance two often competing demands on the business — People and Process. This

SWT Instead For senior leaders, we propose replacing the SWOT with the SWT: an updated approach that identifies inherent Strengths and Weaknesses within their firms while exploring broader external Trends beyond their own industry or geography.

Jeff Bezos asks his team each week is what competitors have entered their market in the last seven days!

Jim Collins, author of Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… And Others Don't

Revenue is vanity, profit is sanity, and cash flow is king." You

think of Amazon's "two-pizza rule" — no team should be so big that it can't be fed with two pizzas).

If more than one person is accountable, then no one is accountable

The best leaders have the right questions, but turn to their employees, customers, advisors, and the crowd to mine the answers. Every business is more valuable to the degree that it does not depend on its top leader.

In leading People, take a page from parenting: Establish a handful of rules, repeat yourself a lot, and act consistently with those rules. This is the role and power of Core Values. If discovered and used effectively, these values guide all the relationship decisions and systems in the company.

All executives and middle managers should have a coach (or peer coach) holding them accountable for behavioral changes. We