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Quotes About Leadership

To raise it all to artistry, Barak and Greldik ordered their men to lounge indolently on the decks of their ships, drinking ale and playing dice.
~ David Eddings
A wise king does not garner all wit, instead he also allows his cunselors to be wise.
~ David Farland
It's a thin line between what we're calling acceptable and not acceptable. As a leader, you're supposed to know when not to cross it. But how do you know? Does the army teach us how to control our emotions? Does the army teach us how to deal with a friend bleeding out in front of you? No.
~ Unknown
The greatest regret of my military career was as Commanding General of the 1st Cavalry Division in Iraq in 2004-2005, he later wrote of the decision he made. I lost 169 soldiers during that year-long deployment. However, the monument we erected at Fort Hood, Texas, in memoriam lists 168 names. I approved the request of others not to include the name of the one soldier who committed suicide. I deeply regret my decision.
~ Unknown
Incapacidad de lograr objetivos y decidir. Dificultad para enfrentar cambios. Incapacidad de trabajar en equipo. Mal manejo de relaciones interpersonales.
~ Unknown
La mayor diferencia entre los ejecutivos exitosos y los que fracasaron era la inteligencia emocional (Fernández-Aráoz, 2001).
~ Unknown
En otras palabras, tener inteligencia emocional no le garantiza el éxito, pero no tenerla le garantiza el fracaso (Cherniss y Goleman, 1998 en Hyatt, L., Hyatt, B. y Hyatt, J., 2007).
~ Unknown
No hay límite en lo que un hombre puede alcanzar en la medida que no le importe quién asuma el crédito." BOB WOODRUFF, COCA-COLA
~ Unknown
El 30 % del tiempo de las gerencias se pierde por mal manejo de conflictos (Thomas y Schmidt, 1976).
~ Unknown
El 50 % de la rotación involuntaria en el trabajo se debe a conflictos no resueltos (Mediation Training Institute, s.f.).
~ Unknown
Real leaders are people who "help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.
~ David Foster Wallace
Our leaders, our government is us, all of us, so if they're venal and weak it's because we are.
~ David Foster Wallace
Johnny Gentle, the first U.S. President ever to swing his microphone around by the cord during his Inauguration speech.
~ David Foster Wallace
A real leader can somehow get us to do certain things that deep down we think are good and want to be able to do but usually can't get ourselves to do on our own.
~ David Foster Wallace
It's no coincidence it's the gurus on mountains who're wise. You get to the top: you're already theirs.
~ David Foster Wallace
It's painful to believe that the would-be 'public servants' you're forced to choose between are all phonies whose only real concern is their own care and feeding and who will lie so outrageously and with such a straight face that you know they've just got to believe you're an idiot.
~ David Foster Wallace
I said I think I'm being followed.' 'Some men are born to lead, O.
~ David Foster Wallace
Datum: At least one-third of ancient rulers' seers and magicians were in fact fired or killed early in their tenure because it emerged that the bulk of what they foresaw or intuited was irrelevant. Not incorrect, just irrelevant, pointless.
~ David Foster Wallace
Because Tavis had been the one to take the lion's share of the heat when it turned out that Blue Jays' spectators in the stands
~ David Foster Wallace
and the tumescence of O.N.A.N.ism.
~ David Foster Wallace
a president views, interviews, and reviews everything he presides over, if he's doing his job in the correct manner.
~ David Foster Wallace
Qué vamos a hacer? - parece que exclamó Keitel- - ¡Hagan la paz, imbéciles! -le replicó Rundsted-. ¿Qué otra cosa pueden hacer?
~ Unknown
Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
His Scotch bear-leader, Mr Boswell, was a butt of the first quality.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray