Quotes About Leadership

The words of authority are corrupted by those who speak them.

I should implore you to remember your responsibilities, to be higher, more spiritual; I should remind you how much depends on you, and what an influence you can exert upon the future.

Focus on the big picture, not the numbers.

To tip the cognitive hurdle fast, tipping point leaders such as Bratton zoom in on the act of disproportionate influence: making people see and experience harsh reality firsthand. Research in neuroscience and cognitive science shows that people remember and respond most effectively to what they see and experience: "Seeing is believing." In the realm of experience, positive stimuli reinforce behavior, whereas negative stimuli change attitudes and behavior. Simply

Yet few leaders exploit the power of this rapid wake-up call. Rather, they do the opposite. They try to garner support based on a numbers case that lacks urgency and emotional impetus. Or they try to put forth the most exemplary case of their operational excellence to garner support. Although these alternatives may work, neither leads to tipping superiors' cognitive hurdle as fast and stunningly as showing the worst. When

The hardest battle is simply to make people aware of the need for a strategic shift and to agree on its causes

The Pivotal Lever: Disproportionate Influence Factors The key to tipping point leadership is concentration, not diffusion. Tipping point leadership builds on the rarely exploited corporate reality that in every organization, there are people, acts, and activities that exercise

Voluntary cooperation is more than mechanical execution, where people do only what it takes to get by. It involves going beyond the call of duty, wherein individuals exert energy and initiative to the best of their abilities—even subordinating personal self-interest—to execute resulting strategies.3

Corporate graveyards are full of companies that got to market first with innovative offerings not linked to value.

Never use the competition as a benchmark

In blue oceans, competition is irrelevant because the rules of the game are waiting to be set.

A blue ocean strategic move can create brand equity that lasts for decades

We don't have a theory of strategy creation

We hoped to push managers to create innovative proposals and break the boundaries of their conventional thinking.

It is important to distinguish between value innovation as opposed to technology innovation and market pioneering.

The rule here is to go for the largest catchment that your organization has competence to seize.

Large R&D budgets are not the key to creating new market space. The key is making the right strategic moves.

The key to tipping point leadership is concentration, not diffusion

Strategy is heavily influenced by its roots in military strategy. The very language of strategy is deeply imbued with military references— chief executive "officers" in "headquarters," "troops" on the "front lines." Described this way, strategy is all about red ocean competition. It is about confronting an opponent and driving him off a battlefield of limited territory.

Strategic move will be well placed to create multiple blue oceans over time, thereby continuing to deliver high growth and profits over a sustained period.

Disengaged employees are an unfortunate reality in the workplace, and poor leadership is often to blame.

Organizational politics is an inescapable reality of corporate and public life.

to win in the future, companies must stop competing with each other. The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition.

Tal como nos decía uno de los ejecutivos de Virgin Group, «no debemos permitir que lo que podemos hacer ahora condicione nuestro punto de vista sobre lo que se necesita hacer para ganar mañana. Nuestro enfoque es de pizarra limpia».