Quotes About Leadership

O philosophy, you leader of life.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I shall attack.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

George Bush isn't Hitler. He could be if he applied himself.

God and Nature together shaped him to lead in the van, In the stress of her wildest weather when the Nation needed a Man.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader." ? Margaret Fuller

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. Very early I knew that the only objective in life was to grow

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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader

Margaret Heffernan

The State must come before the individual soul. Yet Christ had shown that the individual soul mattered above all else. So how could one be a Christian and a statesman - let alone an Emperor? One could not, that was the answer.

Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.

I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.

Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.

Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.

When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.

In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation.

Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.

We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order. This is no surprise, given that for most of its written history, leadership has been defined in terms of its control functions.

There are no descriptions, it is almost needless to say, of Caesar, Napoleon, Hitler, or for that matter, Jefferson Davis playing with kittens.

We should not be impressed when our leaders say firmly, "History teaches us" or "History will show that we were right." They can oversimplify and force inexact comparisons just as much as any of us can. Even the clever and the powerful (and the two are not necessarily the same) go confidently off down the wrong paths. It is useful, too, to be reminded, as a citizen, that those in positions of authority do not always know better.