Quotes About Leadership

American leaders sat by watching as vast sectors of their heavy industry hemorrhaged and ultimately fled offshore. Factories that didn't leave closed down. Some politicians actually assisted these industries

A good estimate is an estimate that provides a clear enough view of the project reality to allow the project leadership to make good decisions about how to control the project to hit its targets.

I don't like the new president who hunts muslim extremists, I like the old president who is a muslim extremist.

The leader of another crack gang once told Venkatesh that he could easily afford to pay his foot soldiers more, but it wouldn't be prudent. "You got all these niggers below you who want your job, you dig?" he said. "So, you know, you try to take care of them, but you know, you also have to show them you the boss. You always have to get yours first, or else you really ain't no leader. If you start taking losses, they see you as weak and shit.

How are you supposed to get everyone to pull in the same direction when they are all pulling primarily for themselves?

Pero por supuesto, eso depende de quién lo haga. Si lo hiciera Al Gore, podría conseguir un segundo premio Nobel de la Paz; si fuera Hugo Chávez, probablemente recibiría pronto una visita de los aviones de combate estadounidenses.

When people, especially politicians, start making decisions based on a reading of their moral compass, facts tend to be among the first casualties.

it is often possible to elicit the behavior you want through nonfinancial means.

Is it a good idea to pass along a family business to the next generation? (Sure, if your goal is to kill off the business—for the data show it's generally better to bring in an outside manager.

Lo que realmente importa para un candidato político no es cuánto gasta, sino quién es.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. —Colin Powell

Product people are business people, first and foremost. They work across functions and serve to integrate or synchronize the work of others so that products and portfolios can be planned, developed, launched, and managed.

Because each day is different, I thrive on creating something out of nothing, and I love running a business. I also flourish when I know what's going on across the company and who's doing what with whom and why. I love learning from customers, and I marvel at the knowledge and experience of people who contribute to the creation of great products.

A professional soldier must also be a realist. There is a time to attack, and a time to retreat. There is a time to press for victory, and a time to accept its impossibility. Only fools and tyrants deny the inevitable.

Look to the ant, thou sluggard; Consider her ways and be wise: Which having no chief, overseer, or ruler, Provides her meat in the summer, And gathers her food in the harvest. —PROVERBS 6:6–8

Edison invented the lightbulb the way Steve Jobs invented the MP3 player: he wasn't the first, but he was the first to make something that took off in the marketplace. So

A sustained scenario practice can make leaders comfortable with the ambiguity of an open future," Wack writes. "It can counter hubris, expose assumptions that would otherwise remain implicit, contribute to shared and systemic sense-making, and foster quick adaptation in times of crisis.

No one recognized – and exploited – this new power more quickly than Adolf Hitler

If you looked at the map of idea formation that Dunbar created, the ground zero of innovation was not the microscope. It was the conference table.

Edison invented the lightbulb the way Steve Jobs invented the MP3 player: he wasn't the first, but he was the first to make something that took off in the marketplace.

As journalist Nancy Gibbs once quipped in Time magazine, "IQ gets you hired, but EQ gets you promoted.

The quality most desirable in a CEO? According to a global survey conducted by IBM of 1,500 top executives in sixty countries: creativity.

democracy should be understood not as the answer to the question "Who should rule?" (namely, "The People"), but as a solution to the problem of how to dismiss bad leadership without bloodshed.

Burr would not be the last vice president to shoot a man, but he was a better shot than Dick Cheney,..