Quotes About Leadership

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No self-respecting free city would allow politicians to weigh in on refugee issues.

Equipping is more about quality than quantity. It's much better to work with a few who really get it than a bunch who only get it halfway.

Gray looked at him. "If I die, Wraysford, and you are still alive, I want you to take charge of the company." "Me? Why not Harrington?" "Because you are a mad, cold-hearted devil and that is what we are going to need.

But in any society, leaders who aren't willing to make sacrifices aren't leaders, they're opportunists, and opportunists rarely have the common good in mind. They're easy to spot, though: opportunists lie reflexively, blame others for failures, and are unapologetic cowards.

So how do you unify a secure, wealthy country that has sunk into a zero-sum political game with itself?

At the heart of most stable governments is a willingness to share power with people you disagree with--and may even hate.

Self-serving leaders can literally get people killed. But in any society, leaders who aren't willing to make sacrifices aren't leaders, they're opportunists, and opportunists rarely have the common good in mind. They're easy to spot, though: opportunists live reflexively, blame others for failure, and are unapologetic cowards.

According to the Times notice, Mr. Bauman called his employees into a meeting and asked them to accept a 10 percent reduction in salary so that he wouldn't have to fire anyone. They all agreed. Then he quietly decided to give up his personal salary until his company was back on safe ground. The only reason his staff found out was because the company bookkeeper told them. Bauman

The choreography always requires that each man make decisions based not on what's best for him, but on what's best for the group. If everyone does that, most of the group survives. If no one does, most of the group dies. That, in essence, is combat.

there is mostly leadership by example and decision by consensus.

Hierarchical male groups are good at mustering on the street and running into gunfire--another important task--but terrible at creating alliances.

He read Adam Smith, Thomas Hobbes, and Niccolò Machiavelli.

Johnson did what most politicians do to douse political fires: he formed a study group.

Since the creation of the five families in 1931, the Lucchese borgata had proved to be the most stable and least divisive of the New York families.

Although designated as acting boss, D'Arco sensed he was getting "curved instructions" from Casso, who was transmitting the same information and directions he received to other Lucchese members. The curved instructions were designed to determine if D'Arco was faithfully carrying out his bosses' commands.

How was your day? If your answer was fine, then I don't think you were leading.

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

Yes, I think it's okay to abandon the big, established, stuck tribe. It's okay to say to them, You're not going where I need to go, and there's no way I'm going to persuade all of you to follow me. So rather than standing here watching the opportunities fade away, I'm heading off. I'm betting some of you, the best of you, will follow me.

The challenge with being an initiator of projects is that you are never, ever done.

Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself.

If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either. Part of leadership (a big part of it, actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time. Long enough that the critics realize that you're going to get there one way or another...so they follow.

The easiest thing is to react. The second easiest thing is to respond. But the hardest thing is to initiate.

Strategic quitting is the secret of successful organizations