Quotes About Leadership

Further, as a TL, I use a system where my team members get hands-on and either I cover or supervise. This is important because if I get caught getting hands-on, I am not doing my job as a leader. My job is to supervise my team and ensure that we maintain 360-degree security at all times.

Ask any performer in the field who they would choose to lead them in a high-risk environment: the person with four years of college or the person with four years of experience? The answer is simple.

Only extraordinary leaders take the initiative and seek out this training. Generally, most of today's officers feel that they don't need the training, or that it is too easy. Yet these are the same officers who are overwhelmed in the stress of combat while trying to process all the incoming information under chaotic conditions.

Effective combat leadership should empower the fighting troops to take initiative and decisive action at the lowest level to support the common goal.

Some leaders implement the latest fad technique without properly researching it. These new techniques will generally work dry, but throw in role players and simunitions, and the problems jump out at you.

School chasers, on the other hand, will have stunning résumés but are functionally illiterate in their fields and are often socially inept. Much of the time, they put so much energy in getting certificates, they never do their job, or their entire focus is spent on getting the "slot," that they never have a chance to develop their team. Further, if they are always in school, they are never home to pass the knowledge on and develop their teams.

I still wonder how policy officials... can sit down at the table with their families and have any appetite for food, or go to sleep at night, knowing that they failed to act. Human beings were sacrificed for political convenience. This would be enough, I think, to turn any reasonable man into a prisoner of his own conscience for the rest of his life.

It always amazes me how people in Europe and the United States can be so indifferent to the speeches of their chancellor or president, for these worlds from the top can be a wind sock for what might happen next.

the exercise of authority was not an easy business, especially if those who exercised it no longer felt they had heaven on their side. That

wily minds and cold hearts were the combination Bronowsky found most common in English administrators.

side of Plato: The strongest principle is that everybody, whether they are male or female, should have a leader. Likewise, no one should get into the habit of doing anything at all on his own initiative – either in earnest or in jest. Both in war and during time of peace, he should respect his leader and follow him faithfully. He should look up to his leader and follow his guidance in even the smallest matters. For example, he should get up, move around, wash

In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pinstriped suits, the best people are bare-assed.

most of the portraits of Niyazov all over Turkmenistan showed him smiling, though he never looked less reliable, or less amused, than when he was smiling. His smile – and this may be true of all political leaders – was his most sinister feature.

The murderous, self-elected, megalomaniacal head of state with the morals of a fruit fly, with his decades in power, along with his vain, flitting shopaholic wife, his hangers-on, and his goon squad, is an obscene feature of African life that is not likely to disappear.

The murderous, self-elected, megalomaniacal head of state with the morals of a fruit fly is an obscene feature of African life that is not likely to disappear.

I made myself very popular with the group by showing them how to shut it [a loudspeaker] off. I wrapped a rubber band around the metal stump and this rubber offered enough of a grip to shut the thing off.

Telling the truth and being ethical often keeps people from political power, but doing the right thing, always, without exception, is all that matters in the long run, and is ultimately powerful. That's why the true heroes of the civil rights struggle were never politicians. They were humble folk on a mission, enduring sit-ins and organizing marches and debates. When they began to succeed, the politicians, seeing an opportunity, followed them.

Leave any bigotry in your quarters. There's no room for it on the bridge. - James T. Kirk, Balance of Terror

The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.

When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.

It was shepherds who were the first to recognize a king that the rest of the world refused to acknowledge.

A shepherd may like to travel, but he should never forget his sheep.

Pity those who seek for shepherds, instead of longing for freedom!

Time to grow up. Time to stop bawling. Time to do SOMETHING. And that means, if I'm not sleeping, my nerd-herd isn't sleeping either-sun or no sun.