Quotes About Leadership

For leaders to get results they need all three kinds of focus. Inner focus attunes us to our intuitions, guiding values, and better decisions. Other focus smooths our connections to the people in our lives. And outer focus lets us navigate in the larger world. A leader tuned out of his internal world will be rudderless; one blind to the world of others will be clueless; those indifferent to the larger systems within which they operate will be blindsided.

We're being judged by a new yardstick: not just by how smart we are, or by our training and expertise, but also by how well we handle ourselves and each other.

Visionary leaders help people to see how their work fits into the big picture, lending people a clear sense not just that what they do matters, but also why.

Not that leaders need to be overly "nice"; the emotional art of leadership includes pressing the reality of work demands without unduly upsetting people.

emotional intelligence accounts for 80 percent of career success.

Authoritative leaders mobilize people toward a vision. Affiliative leaders create emotional bonds and harmony. Democratic leaders build consensus through participation. Pacesetting leaders expect excellence and self- direction. Coaching leaders develop people for the future. And coercive leaders demand immediate compliance.

Coercive leaders demand immediate compliance. Authoritative leaders mobilize people toward a vision. Affiliative leaders create emotional bonds and harmony. Democratic leaders build consensus through participation. Pacesetting leaders expect excellence and self-direction. And coaching leaders develop people for the future.

Daniel Goleman

And one of the paradoxes is that leaders, the higher they go, the less vertical feedback they get on how they're actually doing, because people are afraid to tell them. So leaders can go off in a direction thinking they're doing fine, not realizing they're not

Ninguna criatura puede volar con una sola ala. El liderazgo ejemplar requiere de la adecuada combinación entre el corazón y la cabeza, entre el sentimiento y el pensamiento. Esas son las dos alas que permiten volar a un líder.

Of course companies need leaders who beam in on getting better results. But those results will be more robust in the long run when leaders don't simply tell people what to do or just do it themselves, but have an other focus: they are motivated to help other people be successful, too.

Los CEO son contratados por su capacidad intelectual y su experiencia comercial y despedidos por su falta de inteligencia emocional».

selection focuses almost exclusively on intellectual abilities, emotional intelligence carries much more weight than IQ in determining who emerges as a leader.

liderazgo no es sinónimo de dominación, sino el arte de convencer a la gente de que colabore para alcanzar un objetivo común.

your personal strengths, as a leader?

A leader tuned out of his internal world will be rudderless; one blind to the world of others will be clueless; those indifferent to the larger systems within which they operate will be blindsided.

Si hay menos mal humor en las altas esferas, también lo habrá en el resto del escalafón.

A consciência de nós mesmos e dos outros, e a sua aplicação na gestão do nosso mundo interior e das nossas relações, são a essência da inteligência emocional.

Yvonne Sell, the Hay Group's director of the leadership and talent practice in the United Kingdom, who did the study, found such leaders are rare: only 18 percent of executives attained this level. Three-quarters of leaders with three or fewer strengths in people skills created negative climates, where people felt indifferent or demotivated. Lame leadership seems all too prevalent—more than half of leaders fell within this low-impact category.

there was one "meta" ability that emerged: self-awareness. Chief executives need this ability to assess their own strengths and weaknesses, and so surround themselves with a team of people whose strengths in those core abilities complement their own.

team building and adapting to change.

But these most visible leadership abilities build not just on empathy, but also on managing ourselves and sensing how what we do affects others.

At the very highest levels, competence models for leadership typically consist of anywhere from 80 to 100 percent EI-based abilities.

CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise—and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.