Quotes About Leadership

Execution has to be a part of a company's strategy and its goals. It is the missing link between aspirations and results. As such, it is a major—indeed, the major—job of a business leader. If you don't know how to execute, the whole of your effort as a leader will always be less than the sum of its parts.

There are seven essential behaviors that form the first building block of execution: Know your people and your business. Insist on realism. Set clear goals and priorities. Follow through. Reward the doers. Expand people's capabilities. Know yourself.

If you have leaders with the right behavior, a culture that rewards execution, and a consistent system for getting the right people in the right jobs, the foundation is in place for operating and managing each of the core processes effectively.

Follow-through is the cornerstone of execution, and every leader who's good at executing follows through religiously. Following through ensures that people are doing the things they committed to do, according to the agreed timetable.

While understanding reality is crucial, equally important is communicating it to your people.

Never hire anyone who starts a sentence with the word "Dude!" and never work for a guy who doesn't know the difference between mute and moot

the president of Goodwill Industries made $800,000 a year.

Robert Greenleaf: Caring for persons, the more able and the less able serving each other, is the basis for leadership, the rock upon which a good society is built. In small organizations, caring is largely person to person. But now, most caring is mediated through institutions—often large, complex, powerful, impersonal, and not always competent, sometimes corrupt.

Robert Greenleaf: If caring is needed to protect an institution, what are the requirements necessary to make it work? First, the sense of purpose and objective. Second, the talent to manage the process for reaching new objectives. Finally, and let me surprise you by emphasizing this third need, we need people who care about the institution. A deep sense of caring for the institution is required for its success.

David S. Young, Chapter: Foresight, the Lead that the Leader Has. Through foresight we help congregations shape an incremental, measurable three-year plan. This is a very artistic process. I use a triangle and have the church members put their vision on the top, the strengths on the lower angle, and the need on the other angle. I put foresight in the center.

The crowned heads that leaned over his cradle were members of his family. Charlemagne was a direct ancestor; among his uncles and cousins were Kaiser Wilhelm II, Alfonso XIII of Spain, Ferdinand I of Rumania, Gustav VI of Sweden, Constantine I of Greece, Haakon VII of Norway and Alexander I of Yugoslavia. Europe's crises were family problems.

Over two thousand people died in that vicious intramural bloodletting. While the Jews of Palestine were developing the young leaders and the social institutions that would be their greatest resource, Haj Amin Husseini methodically deprived the Arabs of theirs. Throttling progress and any drift to rational thought with his angry fanaticism, cowing with the guns of his ignorant villagers the educated elite, he reduced a generation of Arab leadership to fear and silence.

Or the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Speaking on NBC's Meet The Press, Craig told Tim Russert: "The American people already know that Bill Clinton is a bad boy - a naughty boy. I'm going to speak out for the citizens of my state, who in the majority think that Bill Clinton is probably even a nasty, bad, naughty boy."

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.

First Barbarian): whats the difference between a lord and a barbarian? (second Barbarian): As little as a week!

Is this a good time to consider the habits of very effective people?' (Emperor Tai-Tsung, newly crowned) 'Ahem'.

I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.

Politics, n: [Poly "many" + tics "blood-sucking parasites"]

The Talmud stresses that a group's behavior comes from the top: "The acts of the leader are the acts of the nation. If the leader is just, the nation is just; if the leader is unjust, that nation is also unjust and will be punished for the sins of the leader."' The term nation applies to any group of people, including companies.

How about if we say we're going to become a cross between the League of Women Voters and the United States Marines?

That Massachusetts Bay Colony had been set up in England as a corporation, enabling one hundred white male religious fanatics to elect their leader to rule in a completely totalitarian way.

NED: Nobody ever listens. We're not exactly a bunch that knows how to play follow the leader. EMMA: Maybe they're just waiting for somebody to lead them. NED: We are. What group isn't?

Empowerment without a platform is like responsibility without authority. In too many of our churches, we offer discipleship training and leadership training without providing any significant platform for people to do the things they've been trained to do. This is especially true in our larger churches.

What Is Your Philosophy of Discipleship and Leadership Training? The fourth key question is, "How do you think people are best trained to live out the Christian life and best prepared for leadership?" Your answer should ideally be reflected in the curriculum you choose, the way you structure your meetings, and the way you train your leaders.