Quotes About Leadership

see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot: Follow your spirit, and upon this charge Cry "God for Harry, England, and Saint George!

As the legendary Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi used to say, you have to know your fundamentals to play a good game.

He calls on world leaders to quit their dithering, and to respond to the threat of epidemic as if it were a tough adversary that can be beaten, rather than an adversary that inevitably leads to massive sickness and death.

A people are not made for rulers, but rulers for a people.

One great law for all who would be truly led by God's Pillar of cloud and fire, is to take no step at the bidding of self-will or without the clear moving of the heavenly Guide.

Almost all the prosperity of a public society and civil community does, under God, depend on their rulers. They are like the main springs or wheels in a machine that keep every part in their due motion, and are in the body politic, as in the vitals in the body natural, and as the pillars and the foundation in a building.

We've mistaken King's nonviolence for passivity. We've forgotten that his approach was more aggressive than anything the country had seen—that he used peaceful protest as a lever to force those in power to give up many of the privileges they'd hoarded.

Above all, the sense of personal responsibility was reduced by the way agency was fragmented. Among the airmen who obeyed the order to drop the bomb, the many scientists who helped to make it, the President, the many political and military advisers involved in the decision, who killed the people of Hiroshima? No one seems to have felt that the responsibility was fully his.

Those who actually dropped the bombs were less responsible than the people who took the decisions higher up the chain of command. In modern technological war, psychological responses are poorly correlated with degrees of responsibility. In people further back up the chain, this casual distance reduces the psychological resistance they have to overcome.

Focusing on effective leadership without focusing on a willingness to follow is like studying clapping by studying only the left hand.

If people can't satisfy their need for deep connection in other ways, they'll be more receptive to a smooth-talking leader who urges them to renounce their lives of "selfish momentary pleasure" and follow him onward to "that purely spiritual existence" in which their value as human beings consists.

transformational leadership)44 generates more social capital—the bonds of trust that help employees get more work done at a lower cost than employees at other firms. Hivish employees work harder, have more fun, and are less likely to quit or to sue the company.

leadership on virtue can never come from the major political actors; it will have to come from a movement of people, such as the people of a town who come together and agree to create moral coherence across the many areas of children's lives.

leadership can only be understood as the complement of followership.45 Focusing on leadership alone is like trying to understand clapping by studying only the left hand. They point out that leadership is not even the more interesting hand; it's no puzzle to understand why people want to lead. The real puzzle is why people are willing to follow.

leadership can only be understood as the complement of followership.45 Focusing on leadership alone is like trying to understand clapping by studying only the left hand.

Only groups that can elicit commitment and suppress free riding can grow.

A Liberal authority is someone or something that earns society's respect through making things happen that unify society and suppress its enemy.

It is no coincidence that the only Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt to win election and then reelection combined gregariousness and oratorical skill with an almost musical emotionality. Bill Clinton knew how to charm elephants.

Besides, lead someone down an unknown road and soon there're completely lost without you. I just have to keep the others from interfering for a short while. Any suggestions? -Kill them. -Kill them. -Kill them. -Kill them. -Hmmm. Okay.

It's distasteful, I know... this business of running a nation. I pray that we never get used to it. That we never grow cold from it. That we never learn to love it.

For you to die, you would have to be forgotten and no one forgets a founder of a nation.

Nechci, aby naši muži trp?li pocitem osobní zodpov?dnosti.

Ti, kdo si trvají na jasných rozkazech nebo žádající legislativní opat?ení, nepochopili, že nezáleží na rozkazech, nýbrž na v?li nad?ízeného, a že p?íjemce rozkazu tuto v?li musí dešifrovat a dokonce p?edjímat.

Povinností velitel? je ob?tovat N?mecku své pochybnosti.