Quotes About Leadership

the search for human freedom—freedom being the choice to be a creator of our own experience and accept the unbearable responsibility that goes with that. Out of this insight grows the idea that perhaps the real task of leadership is to confront people with their freedom. This may be the ultimate act of love that is called for from those who hold power over others.

It is when citizens stop waiting for professionals or elected leadership to do something, and decide they can reclaim what they have delegated to others, that things really happen.

change. Each of us has a free will at our core, so like it or not, others will choose to change more readily from the example set by our own transformation than by any demand we make of them.

There are prophets, there are guides, and there are argumentative people with theories, and one must be careful to discriminate between them.

You become a director by calling yourself a director and you then persuade other people that this is true.

She could marry this man, she knew, and still be captain of her soul.

We need to be a leadership position about protecting minors on the Internet and, more importantly, giving the parents the tools they need to protect them.

If you entrust a nation's economy to an impulsive leader with no care for facts, disaster will follow.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.

Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't.

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

Companies have three responsibilities: 1) make a profit, 2) satisfy employees, and 3) be socially responsible.

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.

Rather than counting on the acquisition of knowledge to support and defend the faith, a trust-centered faith values and honors the wise—those who through experience and mature spiritual habits have earned the right to lead and are given a central role in nurturing faith in others.