Quotes About Leadership

Un quinto y último atributo del superjefe —y una extensión natural de la integridad— es la autenticidad. Muchos jefes cultivan una imagen para beneficio de sus informes. Mantienen una rienda corta sobre sus personalidades, guardándose su "verdadero" yo para cuando están fuera de la oficina. Los superjefes no hacen eso.

Sin importar si las oficinas de un superjefe están físicamente alejadas o no, la falta de jerarquía, las largas horas de trabajo y la búsqueda y fe compartidas en la visión del superjefe contribuyen a fortalecer una cultura de grupo.

Los superjefes poseen una energía especial. Son avispados, interesantes y exuberantes... todo porque no fingen. Cuando uno está cerca de personas como estas, es inevitable sentirse motivado.

la velocidad del líder es la velocidad de la banda".

Eso simplemente demuestra que usted puede abandonar a un superjefe, pero el superjefe nunca lo abandonará a usted.

Superbosses suggest a very clear solution to this problem: protect the "why" of your business, but be prepared to constantly improve everything about the "how" of your business as if your life depended on it.

Yes, superbosses are willing to advance people, even when protégés don't think they're ready. Yes, they will purposefully step back so their protégés can shine. Yes, they will organize their entire enterprise so that informal, apprenticeship-style learning can take place. But they will ultimately push protégés to step up and take responsibility for their own development by cultivating an everyday focus on learning and growth.

Superbosses understand that focusing primarily on what might get in the way of change prevents a team or company from ever trying anything new. It also prevents employees from identifying wholeheartedly with the team and giving themselves over to it.

35 Los superjefes también toleran que se admita no saber algo, siempre y cuando usted se dedique a encontrar la respuesta… rápidamente.

Los superjefes no se limitan a escuchar; también preguntan permanentemente a sus empleados sus opiniones.

What we are looking for, I am afraid, is neither a true leader nor a true Messiah, but a false Messiah - a man who will give us over-simplified answers, who will justify our ways, who will castigate our enemies, who will vindicate our selfishness as a way of life and make us comfortable within our prejudices and preconceptions.

When we inform, we lead from strength; when we communicate, we lead from weakness—and it is precisely this confession of mortality that engages the ears, heads and hearts of those we want to enlist as allies in a common cause.

I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things.

It is executive presence—and no man or woman attains a top job, lands an extraordinary deal, or develops a significant following without this heady combination of confidence, poise, and authenticity that convinces the rest of us we're in the presence of someone who's the real deal. It's an amalgam of qualities that telegraphs that you are in charge or deserve to be.

how you act (gravitas), how you speak (communication), and how you look (appearance) count for a lot in determining your leadership presence.

Star performers are very likely to attract sponsors, and loyal performers are very likely to keep them. But if they fail to distinguish themselves, these loyal performers run the risk of becoming permanent seconds, lieutenants who never make captain. To position themselves for the top job, protégés must therefore contribute something the leader prizes but may intrinsically lack:

It is executive presence—and no man or woman attains a top job, lands an extraordinary deal, or develops a significant following without this heady combination of confidence, poise, and authenticity that convinces the rest of us we're in the presence of someone who's the real deal.

So often I have said in the past, when a war is over, the statesmen should not go into conference one with another, but should turn their attention to the infant rooms, since it is from there that comes peace or war.

To lead is difficult when you're a follower of fear.

To lead by example is difficult when you're a follower of fear.

It is difficult to conceive any situation more painful than that of a great man, condemned to watch the lingering agony of an exhausted country, to tend it during the alternate fits of stupefaction and raving which precede its dissolution, to see the symptoms of vitality dissappear one by one, till nothing is left but coldness, darkness, and corruption.

If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.

The world doesn't need more people playing small. It's time to stop hiding out and start stepping out. It's time to stop needing and start leading. It's time to start sharing your gifts instead of hoarding them or pretending they don't exist. It's time you started playing the game of life in a "big" way.

If you want to fly with the eagles, don't swim with the ducks!