Quotes from Mark Rutland

In your position as leader, your actions are amplified; it's as if you are talking through a bullhorn every time you communicate with your employees. They hear your criticism more loudly than you mean it, and they hear your praise and thanks more loudly than it sounds to you. Use your bullhorn wisely.

leadership, and particularly turnaround leadership, is about defining a dream and tethering all aspects of the organization to it.

Try to be all things to all people, and you may just wind up being nothing much to hardly anyone.

To align message with market is simply to communicate a message that resonates with your market.

Even in a desperate turnaround situation, if you shift your market radically and suddenly, you may lose the market you have before you can get a new one.

The leader steps into an organization in its darkest hour and says, "Friends, you only thought this was your darkest hour. In fact, this is your greatest opportunity. Let me show you why that's true." Note

One of the reasons you can't learn everything you need to know about leadership from a seminar or a book is that leadership is, ultimately, an art.

If we begin to fear chaos and tighten down the controls too much, we'll have order but no creativity and, well, no life.

The great leaders learn to rely on God to sustain them when nothing of this world can. And this, too, is the price—and the privilege—of leadership. Oh

we must release God from any subconscious belief we have that He is indebted to us to run a better universe.