Quotes About Leadership

remarkable absence of systematic training for the essential skill of conducting efficient meetings.

Leaders of large businesses sometimes make huge bets in expensive mergers and acquisitions, acting on the mistaken belief that they can manage the assets of another company better than its current owners do.

El exceso de optimismo de los directivos puede atribuirse tanto a sesgos cognitivos (errores en el procesamiento mental de la información) como a presiones organizativas.

The business professional also must value his employees as well, for they are his most valuable asset. He must attend to their welfare.

The job of a leader is often to carry the burden of worry and concern alone to spare his followers worry over that which they, as followers, cannot change or influence even if they had all of the discomforting facts.

General George Patton wrote from long experience: "There are more tired division commanders than there are tired divisions. Tired officers are always pessimists." The lieutenant was tired. His sergeants were not. They wanted to continue the mission.

The people went mad over these big games and didn't care if Caesar became dictator or not as long as he kept them amused. But

The Contrarian's Guide to Leadership (2005). He advises that a leader "needs to be able to see the shades of gray inherent in a situation in order to make wise decisions as to how to proceed" (p. 7). He encourages leaders to examine all arguments without forming an opinion, using an F. Scott Fitzgerald quote for support: "The test of a first-rate mind is the ability to hold two opposing thoughts at the same time while still retaining the ability to function

Unfortunately, some leaders use their power to instill fear in employees.

In our experience as employees, leaders, and consultants, issues of power and control—more than any other emotions—create the greatest conflicts and most unpleasant work environments. Unfortunately, some individuals are motivated by power alone to seek positions of leadership.

The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.

No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty.

Autonomy isn't the opposite of accountability - it's the pathway to it.

But charisma only wins people's attention. Once you have their attention, you have to have something to tell them.

El verdadero sabio gobierna a las personas «cuidando de ellas y alimentándolas, pero sin reclamarlas para sí», y elimina los motivos de disputa en vez de castigar las consecuencias:

A bright man of conviction and action is a beacon to his country, but a flash light to the scurrying of inaction, ego, and insecurity of lesser men.

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With his pewter-colored locks and sturdy jaw, Graham Seymour was the archetypal British civil servant, a man who'd been born, bred, and educated to lead. He was handsome, but not too; he was tall, but not remarkably so. He made others feel inferior, especially Americans.

Gabriel was remarried, a father, and the chief of the Office. The restorer was restored.

Our president understands that he who controls history controls the future. - Sergei Korovin

Shamron had always believed careers were defined less by the successes achieved than the calamities survived. "Any fool can take a victory lap," he once famously remarked during a lecture at the Academy, "but only a truly great officer can maintain his composure and his cover when his heart is breaking.

The Tsar is the most powerful man in the world, never forget that.

The Americans came in force, the French in style.

Elections have consequences. – Gabriel Allon