Quotes About Leadership

In unstable times, growth comes from leaders who create change and engage their organizations, instead of from managers who push their employees to do more for less.

When you hire amazing people and give them freedom, they do amazing stuff. And

If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader.

strategy is empty without change, empty without passion, and empty without people willing to confront the void.

If all we do with these tools is teach compliance and consumption, that's all we're going to get. School can and must do more than train the factory workers of tomorrow.

People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves. What leaders do: they give people stories they can tell themselves. Stories about the future and about change.

You and your organization have the power to change everything. To create remarkable products and services. To over deliver. To be the best in the world. How dare you squander that resource by spreading it too thin. How dare you settle for mediocre just because you're busy coping with too many things on your agenda, racing against the clock to get it all done.

Becoming a linchpin is not an act of selfishness. I see it as an act of generosity

The first thing a leader can focus on is the act of tightening the tribe. It's tempting to make the tribe bigger, to get more members, to spread the word. This pales, however, when juxtaposed with the effects of a tighter tribe. A tribe that communicates more quickly, with alacrity and emotion, is a tribe that thrives.

If your agenda is set by someone else and it doesn't lead you where you want to go, why is it your agenda?

It's war that makes generals

If you had a chance to do a TED talk, what would it be about? What have you discovered, what do you know, what can you teach? You should do one. Even if you don't do one, you should be prepared to do one.

Great bosses and world-class organizations hire motivated people, set high expectations, and give their people room to become remarkable.

there's a difference between telling people what to do and inciting a movement.

Once you've engaged with an organization or a relationship or a community, you owe it to your team to start. To initiate. To be the one who makes something happen. To do less is to steal from them. If you hide your spark, bury your ideas, keep your questions and notions from the team, you have hurt them as badly as if you had stolen a laptop and fenced it on eBay.

What They Should Teach in School Only two things: 1. Solve interesting problems 2. Lead SOLVE

You will never become a category of one if you run with the pack.

Leadership almost always involves thinking and acting like the underdog. That's because leaders work to change things, and the people who are winning rarely do.

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 thermostat, on the other hand, manages to change the environment in sync with the outside world. Every organization needs at least one thermostat. These are leaders who can create change in response to the outside world, and do it consistently over time.

Leaders who set out to give are more productive than leaders who seek to get. Even

Tearing others down is never as helpful to a movement as building your followers up.

It's Almost Impossible to Overinvest in Becoming the Market Leader.

The power of this new era is simple: if you want to (need to, must!) lead, then you can. It's easier than ever and we need you. But if this isn't the right moment, if this isn't the right cause, then hold off. Generous and authentic leadership will always defeat the selfish efforts of someone doing it just because she can.