Quotes About Leadership

Mission statements are also vital to successful organizations.

When a boss becomes the first assistant to each of his subordinates, he can greatly increase his span of control.

Independent people who do not have the maturity to think and act interdependently may be good individual producers, but they won't be good leaders or team players.

ingenuity, his resourcefulness. PC work is treating employees as volunteers just as you treat customers as volunteers, because that's what they are. They volunteer the best part—their hearts and minds.

We need to move beyond time management to life leadership

The leader learns to learn from the challenges, failures, and problems of life to improve life.

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." Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

No management success can compensate for failure in leadership.

Stephen R. Covey

One of the fundamental problems in organizations, including families, is that people are not committed to the determinations of other people for their lives.

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The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, Wrong jungle!

leadership is communicating others' worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves

Stephen R. Covey

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

My own maxim of personal effectiveness is this: Manage from the left; lead from the right.

involvement and approval, including the president. But the president did not feel threatened because this man's strength complemented his strength and compensated for his weaknesses. So he had the strength of two people, a complementary team. This man's success was not dependent on his circumstances. Many others were in the same situation. It was his chosen response to those circumstances, his focus on his Circle of Influence, that made the difference.

First, take responsibility for your life; and second, take initiative. It's that simple. Be an agent, not a victim. Don't wait for life to happen to you; happen to it. Be the driver of your life, not just a passenger. Live out of your imagination, not your past.

The Seven Habits are habits of effectiveness.

And being influenceable is the key to influencing others.

There are organizations that talk a lot about the customer and then completely neglect the people that deal with the customer—the employees.

For thirty days work only in your Circle of Influence. Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.

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

definición del liderazgo: enseñaba que liderazgo es comunicar la valía y el potencial de los demás con tanta claridad que se inspiren para verlo en ellos mismos.