Quotes About Leadership

Many people wait for something to happen or someone to take care of them. But people who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary, consistent with correct principles, to get the job done.

The basic task of leadership is to increase the standard of living and the quality of life for all stakeholders.

Stephen R. Covey

Leadership is communicating to another their worth and potential so clearly they are inspired to see it in themselves.

Only if network marketers manage themselves effectively can they go on to managing their teams effectively.

But effectively delegating to others is perhaps the single most powerful high-leverage activity there is.

Taking initiative means] recognizing our responsibility to make things happen

I've taken course after course on effective management training. I expect a lot out of my employees and I work hard to be friendly toward them and to treat them right.

Management is essentially moving the fulcrum over, and the key to effective management is delegation.

if you are an effective manager of yourself, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. You are a disciple, a follower, of your own deep values and their source. And you have the will, the integrity, to subordinate your feelings, your impulses, your moods to those values.

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To value oneself and, at the same time, subordinate oneself to higher purposes and principles is the paradoxical essence of highest humanity and the foundation of effective leadership.

beautiful definition of leadership: he taught that leadership is communicating others' worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.

is not only a part, but the most catalytic, the most empowering, the most

One of the fundamental problems in organizations, including families, is that people are not committed to the determinations of other people for their lives. They simply don't buy into them.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things

There are people we trust absolutely because we know their character. Whether they're eloquent or not, whether they have the human relations techniques or not, we trust them, and we work successfully with them.

But is it possible that under that apparently disloyal behavior, these employees question whether I really act in their best interest? Do they feel like I'm treating them as mechanical objects? Is there some truth to that?

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We are more in need of a vision or destination and a compass (a set of principles or directions) and less in need of a road map.

If you wait to be acted upon, you will be acted upon.

the more completely weekly goals are tied into a wider framework of correct principles and into a personal mission statement, the greater the increase in effectiveness will be.

Management is a bottom line focus: How can I best accomplish certain things? Leadership deals with the top line: What are the things I want to accomplish? In the words of both Peter Drucker and Warren Bennis, "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Manage from the left; lead from the right.