Quotes About Leadership

There is no kingdom mission apart from submitting to Jesus as King and calling others to surrender before King Jesus.

Jesus often wetted his finger to find the direction of the acceptable winds, and instead of going with them, headed straight against them.

You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.

Hard work is rewarding. Taking credit for other people's hard work is rewarding and faster.

The basic concept of the Dilbert Principle is that the most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.

Technology: No Place for Wimps!

To the degree that the British right hand didn't know what the left was doing, it was because a select group of men at the highest reaches of its government went to great lengths to ensure it. To that end, they created a labyrinth of information firewalls—deceptions, in a less charitable assessment—to make sure that crucial knowledge was withheld from Britain's wartime allies and even from many of her own seniormost diplomats and military commanders.

Professional management was born from the desire to optimize and control, not to lead waves of change.

Anyone can criticize or accept praise, but initiating a positive exchange is a hallmark of a difference maker.

Much of what bad managers do is assume their job is simply to find new things to jam and new places to jam them into, without ever believing they need to understand how the system—the system of people known as culture—works.

in the scramble to survive, founders often hire to solve immediate needs and simultaneously create long-term problems. This mistake is common enough that Bob Sutton wrote a book, The No-Asshole Rule, to help executives recognize the damage these hires cause to culture.5 No matter how many golden lectures a leader gives imploring people to "Be collaborative" or "Work as a team," if the people hired have destructive habits, the lecture will lose.

Imparting trust, the real meaning of delegation, is a powerful thing.

It's natural for people to protect what they know instead of leaping into the unknown, and managers are no exception. Managers might even be worse, as the politics they rely on to survive can make them more entrenched and defensive.

You can blame people who knock things over in the dark, or you can begin to light candles. You're only at fault if you know about the problem and choose to do nothing.

Hire Self-Sufficient, Passionate People

Taking responsibility for situations, regardless of who caused them, always helps to expedite resolving

Negotiation is useful not only in a crisis situation, but also in management. Good negotiators work from people's interests, not their positions.

there are psychological benefits to making sure the people you are working with are well fed and associate you with good things.

When people are allowed to fail or make mistakes without taking responsibility for them, politics are inevitable. Without accountability for people's commitments, few will trust others.

Although he was not using these as a hammer to end arguments, he regularly referred to data as part of his thinking. He wanted a data-influenced culture, not a data-driven one.

Regarding clarity, most teams in the working world are starving for it. Layers of hierarchy create conflicting goals.

Self-motivated people thrive when granted independence. Managers who want better performance must provide what their staff needs.

Most of the work of project management is correctly prioritizing things and leading the team in carrying them out.