Quotes About Leadership

established her own interior design firm years

gathering wholesome young people around her.

If you feel that the thrill is long gone out of your leadership position, I guarantee if you will commit yourself to identifying and developing the strengths in your people, you'll experience a resurgence of excitement in your career. It will require you to really observe, analyze, and study each team member's habits, actions, and responses to critical situations. It's a quest that will help you continue to discover new strengths in individuals, including your kids.

If these rulers would only get the right advice from the right advisers, the thinking goes, prosperity would follow.

Madison sostuvo que las Constituciones debían diseñarse de modo que «debe hacerse que la ambición contrarreste a la ambición».

absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Perón, Chávez, and dozens of other strongmen in Latin America are just another facet of the iron law of oligarchy, and as the name suggests, the roots of this iron law lies in the underlying elite-controlled regimes.

sólo los burócratas pueden pensar que el trabajo de planificación acaba con la creación del plan. La elaboración del plan es solamente el principio. El rumbo verdadero del plan se desarrolla solamente después de haberlo elaborado».

The leaders of the French Revolution and, subsequently, Napoleon exported the revolution to these lands, destroying absolutism, ending feudal land relations, abolishing guilds, and imposing equality before the law—the all-important notion of rule of law, which we will discuss in greater detail in the next chapter. The French Revolution thus prepared not only France but much of the rest of Europe for inclusive institutions and the economic growth that these would spur. As

First perfected by Cortés in Mexico, it was based on the observation that the best way for the Spanish to subdue opposition was to capture the indigenous leader. This strategy enabled the Spanish to claim the accumulated wealth of the leader and coerce the indigenous peoples to give tribute and food. The next step was setting themselves up as the new elite of the indigenous society and taking control of the existing methods of taxation, tribute, and, particularly, forced labor. When

revolution that overthrew Mubarak will lead to a new set of institutions capable of bringing prosperity

the iron law of oligarchy.

los países pobres lo son porque quienes tienen el poder toman decisiones que crean pobreza. No lo hacen bien, no porque se equivoquen o por su ignorancia, sino a propósito.

Hua could not repudiate the Cultural Revolution, and this weakened him. He was also a comparative newcomer to the centers of power, and he lacked the web of connections and informal relations that Deng had built up over many years.

Stalin himself said in 1937 that "only bureaucrats can think that planning work ends with the creation of the plan. The creation of the plan is just the beginning. The real direction of the plan develops only after the putting together of the plan.

Unlike Iturbide, Santa Ana, and Díaz, however, none of these military men used force to get into power. Nor did they use force to avoid having to relinquish power. They abided by the Constitution.

La política es el proceso mediante el cual una sociedad elige las reglas que la gobernarán

Better to die for my people in my own land than rule in another and suffer a lifetime of cowardly guilt.

Humans elect leaders on the basis of the promises they make. We [vampires] try to elect ours based solely on the strength of their character.

A man should know when it is time to step aside.

Did you make this clear when you were seeking election? Mr. Crepsley asked. Kurda shifted uncomfortably. Well, no, but that's politics. Sometimes you have to hold things back. I didn't lie about it. If anyone had asked me for my views on the Stone, I'd have told them. They just... didn't... ask, he finished lamely. Politics ! Mr. Crepsley huffed. It is a sad day for vampires when our Princes voluntarily ensnare themselves in the despicable webs of politics.

What we are doing to develop leaders is not working! We are treating the symptoms and ignoring the disease.

Besides, that MBA is a Masters of Business Administration, not a Masters of Business Leadership.

Becoming a great leader, a great athlete, or great chef takes more than desire or even knowledge. It takes effort. It takes practice.