Quotes About Leadership

If you do not have a defined process that moves your people forward so the can achieve greater results, then what is it you are managing?

I've always been about less government.

A politician don't steal elections, he pays for 'em.

Saddle your horse before sassin' the boss.

On a gentle horse, every man is a rider.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.

His players don't sit around telling hateful-affectionate stories about him. Someone might say of him, as former Packers great Henry Jordan once said of Lombardi, "He treats us all the same—like dogs,

But while Kravitz has a need to perform, with Sam you saw nothing. Things just got done. And when he wasn't doing, he was thinking—he was doing things inside his head. In the rinks and parks of Snowdon, he learned that if you know everything about everything, people listen. And if you're willing to do everything, people let you.

In the Canadiens' dressing room, on a wall above the players' lockers, is a line from John McCrae's poem, "In Flanders Fields." It reads: To you from failing hands we throw the torch, be yours to hold it high.

It didn't matter if someone else scored more goals or had more points or was the league's MVP; there might be many leaders on the team, but the Rocket was its spirit.

President Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it.

you cannot have a political solution for a spiritual problem. You must have spiritual solutions for spiritual problems!

Comrades and friends,' he begins, the translation and lip-synch software maxing his street-cred as usual in all the languages of the Community. For this particular nation and region, he comes across speaking English with a gravely Central Belt Scottish accent, which I know for a fact has been swiped from old tapes of the Communist trade union leader and authentic working class hero Mick MacGahey.

The fact is five months ago this was an issue that people weren't really talking that much about. Because of the president's leadership, because he's brought it to people's attention, it's now a top issue.

the main role of a school's principal is not command and control, it is climate control.

If you want to change the world," he said, "who do you begin with, yourself or others? I believe if we begin with ourselves and do the things that we need to do and become the best person we can be, we have a much better chance of changing the world for the better.

All around the world, there are many great schools, wonderful teachers, and inspiring leaders who are working creatively to provide students with the kinds of personalized, compassionate, and community-oriented education they need.

El principal papel de un director escolar no es mandar y controlar, sino estimular de forma creativa el ambiente.

La función de un líder creativo no es concebir la totalidad de las ideas, sino impulsar una cultura en la que todos puedan generarlas.

Women still have an uneasy relationship with power and the traits necessary to be a leader. There is this internalized fear that if we are really powerful, we are going to be considered ruthless or pushy or strident—all those epithets that strike right at our femininity.

Too many congregations look to their pastors for simple answers to problems that their pastors see as anything but simple. And too many pastors don't trust their congregations enough to say, "It's not that simple from my point of view and here's why.

Adults need spiritual apprenticeships as much as their children do—and adults need them first. Group spiritual direction, covenant groups, practice in oral prayer, lay leadership in worship, singing hymns and praise songs—and of course, the formal practice of testimony itself—are congregational practices that give adults, and not just teenagers, opportunities to put faith into words.