Quotes About Leadership

and hand back my throne.

The greatest tribe in Pyrrhia!

Uh," Six-Claws said. "My, um … my friend Dune helped, too." "Oh, yes?" said Char. "Would you like to join the army as well, dragonet?" "Yes, please, sir!" Dune said eagerly. "Hmmm. You're a bit young, but we can put you in basic training for now. I'll have you two assigned to the same battalion." Char nodded again, looking pleased with himself, and wandered away.

You shouldn't have come back, Mother," she said. Tourmaline glanced up at the waiting crowd and shouted, "For the SkyWings!" And then, with a ferocious crack, she snapped Queen Scarlet's neck.

can tell you what to do. That's my job and my favorite thing in life, I mean, seriously.

I can tell you what to do. That's my job and my favorite thing in life, I mean, seriously.

We need him out of the kingdom," Snowflake suggested. "Or dead.

Not if you get high enough in the rankings," Hailstorm said with a grin. "Which you do by being brave and strong and bold." "I thought it was by being smart and following orders," Winter said.

queen of the SkyWings.

You cannot have a SeaWing as queen of the RainWings. Tsunami, quit that.

Dad would never work for anyone else; he likes being lord himself too much. And he doesn't want to fight any more dragons. He'd rather hide from them.

In the military, I learned that 'leadership' means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments.

I am a military police officer and I have served on two deployments my first was to Iraq, in a medical unit, and my second deployment was to Kuwait, as a military police platoon leader.

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face to rule it. —H. L. Mencken

organizations learn by making decisions, even bad ones.

most of a leadership team's objectives should be collective ones.

there cannot be alignment deeper in the organization, even when employees want to cooperate, if the leaders at the top aren't in lockstep with one another

Most people are generally reasonable and can rally around an idea that wasn't their own as long as they know they've had a chance to weigh in.

No action, activity, or process is more central to a healthy organization than the meeting.

An organization has to institutionalize its culture without bureaucratizing it.

Leaders who can identify, hire, and cultivate employees who are humble, hungry, and smart will have a serious advantage over those who cannot.

The only way for people to embrace a message is to hear it over a period of time, in a variety of different situations, and preferably from different people. That's why great leaders see themselves as Chief Reminding Officers as much as anything else. Their top two priorities are to set the direction of the organization and then to ensure that people are reminded of it on a regular basis.

leaders confuse the mere transfer of information to an audience with the audience's ability to understand, internalize, and embrace the message that is being communicated.