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Quotes About Leadership

The first was the rapidity of the improvisation of order out of chaos." He described how people took initiative, without leadership or coordination
~ Rebecca Solnit
The premise was that people were sheep, except when they were wolves, and the solution was to find out how best to herd them. But the sociologists would stand all this on its head.
~ Rebecca Solnit
Women Strike for Peace was founded by women who were tired of making the coffee and doing the typing and not having any voice or decision-making
~ Rebecca Solnit
social structure of Troop 55. There are
~ Rebecca Wells
This cancellation of process in government leaves it an empty violence that must perpetually and at any cost outdo itself, for it has no alternative idea and hence no alternative activity
~ Rebecca West
When she designs, and then lives, her own destiny, a woman naturally sets right everything wrong in our world.
~ Regena Thomashauer
Croz je mrtev, Carrel zlomený a Taugwalder byl zdiskreditován. A to vÅ¡echno jen proto, že Whymper umí lépe zacházet se slovy než s cepínem.
~ Reinhold Messner
Jaký je to asi pocit, zachovávat i ve stavu naprostého zoufalství sv?j postoj, udržovat si d?vÄ›ru svých lidí a dodávat jim nadÄ›ji na pokraji smrti?
~ Reinhold Messner
PÃ…â"¢esto si Wild nedÄ›lá ani nadÄ›je, ani nároky na to, aby ho jmenovali vedoucím skupiny. Rád stojí ve druhé Ã…â"¢adÄ›.
~ Reinhold Messner
Je to sice náÅ¡ velitel, ale není to v?dce. Scott je egoista.
~ Reinhold Messner
Shackleton sice na cestách do vnitrozemí ledového kontinentu neohrožoval Scottovu autoritu, ale jejich charaktery jsou pÃ…â"¢íliÅ¡ rozdílné.
~ Reinhold Messner
PÃ…â"¢ežití v pustinÄ› si žádá vedení a sou?asnÄ› zaÃ…â"¢azení mezi ostatní.
~ Reinhold Messner
Und so wie meine bloße Existenz mich einst weitergetragen und mir die Kraft gegeben hatte, extreme Bergtouren zu wagen, begann ich jetzt wieder zu träumen von einem Gesamtkunstwerk. Zuletzt wieder im Alleingang. Als wäre ich dazu bestimmt vorauszugehen, den Weg festzulegen, die Welt neu zu erfinden. So habe ich einst die Ziele in der Wildnis vorgegeben. Jetzt wurde eine kulturelle Aufgabe daraus.
~ Reinhold Messner
f white Americans were to leave the country tomorrow, in ten years -America would be a ghetto. You can see the truth of this when you look at many of our major cities that are run by black mayors, black-dominated city councils, and black police chiefs. These cities are usually horrible places to live. Yet blacks who live in black-ruled cities can't see the truth: their own immorality is the cause of black poverty, crime, and family destruction!
~ Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson
Current black leaders preach racial hatred and welfare dependency, not peace and independence. They earn their fat salaries by stirring up the racial pot and portraying blacks as the hopeless victims of racism.
~ Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson
A king with no place to lay his head. A king who came to serve, not to be served.
~ Reza Aslan
Nor is it surprising that three of the first four leaders of Islam were killed by fellow Muslims, though it is important to recognize that both the rebels who murdered Uthman and the Kharijites who assassinated Ali were, like their spiritual successors among the Jihadists of today, far more concerned with maintaining their personal ideal of Muhammad's community than with protecting that community from external enemies. After Ali's death, Mu'awiyah was
~ Reza Aslan
Nor is it surprising that three of the first four leaders of Islam were killed by fellow Muslims, though it is important to recognize that both the rebels who murdered Uthman and the Kharijites who assassinated Ali were, like their spiritual successors among the Jihadists of today, far more concerned with maintaining their personal ideal of Muhammad's community than with protecting that community from external enemies. After
~ Reza Aslan
Se ha dicho que cada gobierno tiene su capo.
~ Ricardo Ravelo
Semco's most precious asset is the wisdom of its workforce, and our success grows out of our employees' success.
~ Ricardo Semler
The secret? If we have a cardinal strategy that forms the bedrock for all our practices, it may be this: Ask why. Ask it all the time, ask it any day, every day, and always ask it three times in a row.
~ Ricardo Semler
No one knows where this will lead, and what power sharing or cohabitation it will carve, but it will certainly bring us face-to-face with our own inconsistencies, and give our employees a chance to feel effectively empowered—with a strong voice. We should never be scared of our own people, whatever it is they have to say or demand—the result is always vastly superior to the ostrich approach of looking for subtle ways of keeping their demands subdued.
~ Ricardo Semler
However well these mild-mannered intellects do on the tests, lack of air time unfairly implies that they are not suited to the rough-and-tumble world of big business. On the contrary, they may be brilliantly equipped to quietly outmaneuver a bombastic opponent, yet as a result of the air time yardstick, they may lose out to peers who tend to be openly aggressive, individualistic, and terror-tested, yet underexposed to teamwork, ego control, soft tactics, and compromise.
~ Ricardo Semler
This man in Guatemala, he's your manager, isn't he?" Zemurray asked. Yes. "Then listen to what the man is telling you. You're here, he's there," said Zemurray. "If you trust him, trust him. If you don't trust him, fire him and get a man you do trust in the job.
~ Rich Cohen