Quotes About Leadership

There will always be a boogie man. Politicians need one.

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A gente precisa estar informada sobre tudo, papai. Para isso é que existem os livros. Sem esses rebeldes, o mundo não progredia. Eles vão na frente, abrindo o caminho.

I will forever be thankful to the Malawians and international community, and my professional army and army general, who said: 'No, we will follow the constitution.' That's why I'm here.

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.

If I were the Minister for Propaganda, Robert – and I often feel it is a pity I am not – I would make everybody sing every day, provided, of course, that enough saint-like Conductors could be found to go round.

Pocas veces, por desgracia, una mujer fue tan decisiva; no es de extrañar, pues, que [Cleopatra VII Philopátor], proclamada reencarnación viviente de la diosa Isis, se ganara a pulso su entrada majestuosa en el cielo de los faraones

Emerge la clase dirigente que, inevitablemente, se convertirá en parásito de la productora (así ha funcionado el mundo desde entonces).

Tal vez así la Iglesia entendería de una vez por todas que los sacerdotes son, siempre y ante todo, hombres

Te daré las llaves del reino de los cielos; lo que ates en la tierra quedará atado en el cielo, y lo que desates en la tierra quedará desatado en el cielo. Mateo 16, versículo 19. Es decir, las palabras con las que Jesús confirmó a San Pedro como jefe de los Apóstoles y le otorgó a él y a sus sucesores el poder sobre toda la cristiandad.

La reina es la figura más poderosa del tablero. Pero por poderosa que sea una pieza de ajedrez, no debe olvidar que siempre hay una mano que la mueve

Só tinha duas orientações. A primeira era que, com o governante no ativo – rei, presidente ou general – nunca se discute, uma vez que, afinal, ele é provisório.

Los progresistas son la vanguardia que avanza abriendo brecha; los conservadores la retaguardia que consolida los avances

Señores, señoras: bienvenidos a la Zheng He.

Hooray," Cosby said, spitting it out bitterly. "Anybody see any sense in this? Systemic racism, they [black leaders] call it." Then Cosby pointed out the obvious issue—but one that the black civil rights leadership somehow missed or for some reason underplayed. Black leaders, he declared, should tell poor black people to stop smoking crack.

Black leaders of all ideological stripes agreed that the key to racial progress was black people helping themselves. King, for example, said he wanted above all else to get black people to shed the idea that they did not control their destiny, an idea he attributed to the power of racists to infect black people with self-defeating doubts about inferiority and create a psychological need

The only true stereotype about Black women is how Black women will say, "Well, no one's doing it, so I guess I'll do it." Once you put that lady in your office, no matter what your office is, if you treat her right, she is going to do your job and her job. And I think people are slowly realizing that.

With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new.

I would rather discover one cause than be the King of Persia.

Too often we fall into the trap of thinking that if we give employees the facts and explain why change needs to take place from an economic point of view, they'll buy into the change. We overestimate the power of logic and underestimate the power of storytelling, an appeal to belonging and the positive emotions of belonging.

Candor, collaboration, and cooperation are almost impossible to establish in environments where turf wars and one-upsmanship exist.

To get to the next level of greatness depends on the quality of the culture, which depends on the quality of the relationships, which depends on the quality of the conversations. Everything happens through conversations!

If telling more doesn't create the results she wants, the leader may "sell" her ideas to get people on board; when this doesn't work, she is inclined to "yell" to get results. Yet employees don't want more "vision," they want deeper engagement with leaders who can help them execute the vision.

If I wanted to influence their behavior, it had to be through my own. The only real control I had was the choice of my own words and actions, including being clear about my expectations and needs.