Quotes About Leadership

Don't blame the horse when you've got the reins.

How the hell am I supposed to keep track of everyone around here when no one listens to a thing I say?

Was every good change made in the world the result of successful bullying? I wondered.

Politics really must be a rotten profession considering what awful moral cowards most politicians become as soon as they get the job.

In democracies where the citizens may read, hear or say what they like, the leaders are no better and no worse than the followers. So perhaps, if we cannot blame the leaders because the job of peacemaking is a sorry mess, we can only blame ourselves.

This book should be in the briefcase of every exec in the world and should be pulled out every day for a refresher on how to be a real leader.

Getting the best is about building a culture of trust, connection, growth, and service. That culture is sustained and enlivened by its managers one person at a time, one interaction at a time. That's employee engagement.

A must-read for new supervisors and managers, with lots of essential lessons and tips.

As a people leader, your job is simple: You are the link between organizational mission-critical objectives and the effort your employees invest in achieving those objectives. And you just have to keep those two pieces working together smoothly.

in truth, the engaged culture lives and dies in the moment-to-moment decisions and behaviors of supervisors and managers. So it only stands to reason that engagement can be born anywhere inside the company.

As a people leader, your job is to inspire your employees to bring their personal greatness to work every day

If you take employee engagement seriously, you take on a no halfway, no turning-back high adventure of finding out just how far your personal and organizational courage will take you.

People leaders discover that leading is impossible when they forget that they're people first.

Lead singers not only do the majority of the work, but their personalities are singled out and taken as the general attitude of the unit.

I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.

The politician, small or lofty, who menaces the people with frequent reminders of the possibility of crime, violence, or terrorism, and who then uses their magnified fear to gain allegiance, is more likely to be a successful con artist than a legitimate leader.

Please calm yourselves and stop talking. Plan A01: Rain Destruction has been superseded by Plan B01: Distract and Extract.

Potential Target Leader and their friends aboard Stupid Boat

At least they were quiet, mostly because Moon told them if anybody woke Merit, he would personally beat them into unconsciousness.

Pearl tilted her head, but her voice was amused. "When five fledglings all move down together, believe me, she will know.

They had passed a lift junction, but it wasn't big enough for all of them at once and Wilken sensibly refused to split the group.

He can't hear me," Jai retorted. But it was better to present a cool united front to Canon Hain, not look as if they had been arguing like children. Especially if they had been arguing like children.

Giliead stepped up beside Ilias, leaning his hip on the railing. He watched Ander's retreat grimly, saying in a low voice, "He wanted you to ask him first if we could try that cove, instead of just telling the crewman." Ilias snorted. Good warleaders let everyone do their jobs instead of finding excuses to prove they were in charge.

Che avrei dovuto fare? Ammazzare tutti gli umani perché quelli che erano a capo della sezione costrutti della compa- gnia erano dei senza cuore? Certo, le persone immaginarie del canale d'intrattenimento mi piacevano molto di più di quelle reali, ma non si poteva avere le une senza le altre.