Quotes About Leadership

Why do well-managed companies fail? He concludes that they often fail because the very management practices that have allowed them to become industry leaders also make it extremely difficult for them to develop the disruptive technologies that ultimately steal away their markets.

There is no evidence that any of the leaders in developing and adopting sustaining technologies developed a discernible competitive advantage over the followers

Companies make attractive money when they solve the hardest problems.

What are all the experiences and problems that I have to learn about and master so that what comes out at the other end is somebody who is ready and capable of becoming a successful CEO?

the hallmark of a great manager is the ability to identify the right person for the right job, and to train his or her employees so that they have the capabilities to succeed at the jobs they are given.

The reason good managers strive for focus in their organizations is that processes and tasks can be readily aligned.

He'd followed in the footsteps of a man who knew the way.

Your kind of politics is dead. They are dead because any tinhorn with a loud mouth and a brassy front could gain power by appeal to mob psychology.

Floyd did not accept the blame for his defeat. He blamed his fellow general Henry Wise for not committing some of his regiments to the battle. Wise reacted to the charge by calling Floyd that bullet-hit son of a bitch.

Richmond's newspaper questioned how a senior general could not even get two of his own generals to cooperate with him. They nicknamed him Granny Lee or The King Of Spades, because he insisted that his men dig trenches on Sewell Mountain.

Not knowing how mant troops Jenkins truly had, Johnson refused to surrender unless forced to do so by an exhibition of your boasted strength. Jenkins fought for more than five hours before pulling back.

All rising to great place is by a winding stair. —Sir Francis Bacon

Linda Ross Vice president of operations for the Corporation and U.S. Navy veteran.

for a democracy to flourish, it must have an incorruptible bureaucracy.

stranded Napoleon in Egypt, which

She admitted that his nerves were ragged. 'But why?' asked Reich. Surely things were going excellently for the company. 'Oh yes,' she said. 'But when a man is President of a concern as big as A.I.U., he gets into the habit of worrying, and sometimes can't stop.

Più grande è la sfida, migliori sono gli uomini che la affrontano.

Anyone can start a religion. They just need the need of others.

In 1974, Mahmoud Darwish wrote Yasser Arafat's speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations: Today I have come bearing an olive branch in one hand and a freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

He'd been our center, the glue that held us together and gave us purpose.

Los hombres ilustres siempre recomienzan, y eso los convierte en admirables e imitables.

My interest does not lie in raising parrots that just rehash "their master's voice," but rather in passing the torch to "independent and inventive, innovative and creative spirits.

Danger only threatens when a political system sends those not-decent people, i.e., the negative element of a nation, to the top.

He paid his people for their intellect and their opinions, not to play it safe until the answer was obvious.