Quotes About Empowerment

The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.

Leadership is about creating new realities.

Produce great men, the rest follows.

Leadership requires creating conditions that enable employees to do the kinds of experimentation that entrepreneurship requires.

True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned. It comes only from Influence.

Winning companies win because they have good leaders who nurture the development of other leaders at all levels of the organization.

No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.

Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

The responsibility of leadership is not to come up with all the ideas but to create an environment in which great ideas can thrive.

We accomplish all that we do through delegation - either to time or to other people.

To lead people, walk behind them.

Next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is having someone else do a first class job under your direction.

Leadership is not a matter of authority, it is a matter of influence. A true leader teaches others to understand more, motivates them to be more and inspires them to become more.

God blesses us more so that we can be more of a blessing to others.

Leadership is about moving people from where they are to where you hope they'll go.

If you wish to succeed in managing and controlling others - learn to manage and control yourself.

If you're a leader, people's lives should be better because of the influence you've had along the way.

Act so as to encourage the best in others, and by so doing you will develop the best in yourself.

Great leaders motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition.

Leadership does not mean being bossy, always telling others what to do. No, leadership means going ahead, not putting others in the front. Good leaders lead by example, not by decree.

I realised early on that there were two groups of people in the world: those who made the decisions and those who had the decisions made for them. I wanted to be one of the decision-makers.

Times of upheaval require not just more leadership but more leaders. People at all organizational levels, whether anointed or self-appointed, must be empowered to share leadership responsibilities.

A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless... someone's got to make a wake up call.

If leadership is the act of going beyond what is ... it begins by going beyond what is within ourselves.