Quotes About Leadership

In exceptional boardrooms, the intellectual rigor generated by a challenging question is both an accepted norm and a precursor to reaching informed decisions. This is the crucial edge that sets apart boards that lead from boards that follow.

My grandmother was kind, but she knew what she wanted and she wasn't afraid to give a command. When, eventually, I ran my own kitchen, I realized I had a leadership model reaching back into my earliest memories.

I think most people don't react well to being screamed at. It's counterproductive.

It is my job to help the players react better.

Every GM will tell you it's an instinct. It's an instinct to be patient, to react, or act, or not to do anything at all. It just comes. What I can say is you must have a plan and a goal and a way to do things. At the end of the day, it's an instinct. Sometimes it's good. Sometimes it's bad.

What I really appreciated about Obama in the last campaign was that he was not reactive, and we're such a reactive culture... It takes a certain strength to be patient and have a plan.

I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens.

A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions more than the readers of his column.

If you don't go talk to your boss, if you don't go talk to your mentors, if you don't go talk to people who can influence where you want to be, then they don't know. And they're not mind readers.

After my first book, many of my readers came back to tell me that the female characters I had created were not strong enough. I have consciously rectified that in my next four books. In any case, it's true that women run the world, and men would do better to listen to them!

When a president promises something beyond his years in office, he is fundamentally unaccountable. It is not his budget that must finish the job. Another president inherits the problem, and it becomes a ball too easily dropped, a plan too easily abandoned, a dream too readily deferred.

When the Hyderabad Chapter of TFI approached me to be a part of their Leaders in Classroom event, I readily agreed to be a part of it. It was a great classroom experience. I really enjoyed myself. The kids were very expressive and it was heartening to say the least.

When I came into politics, I remember reading these scorecards of my performance, and I would routinely have these comments about not being assertive enough.

My life is politics, reading books and exercise.

I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling.

Being the leader of a division is a pressure, but it's one that I feel I am ready for.

Belize is not ready for self-government.

For the sake of calm in the country, I am ready to sacrifice my own sanity.

I want to show the world that you do have some artists that are ready to go to the next level, and instead of being selfish with their career they'll open up the door to other people. I'm in a position to open up the door to help other people do what I do.

I want to be the man to take Brentford into the Premier League, but it's not just myself, it's going to be the other players playing a massive part as well. I'm ready for the challenge.

Any leader needs to be constantly interested in what's going on in the world, and constantly ready - even when things are going well - to change.

The coach's role is in the background; it's the players who come first. I am ready to take this role.

I think a first-time director always has to convince a lot of people that they're ready to do it.

You've got to come out and fire on all cylinders and get yourself up the leaderboard and show people that you're there and you're ready to win.