Quotes About Leadership

Entrepreneurs are like cats, because they are independent and do their own thing. Although organisations say they like cats, what they really want is sheep that they can herd.

What I would say is governments need assistance to run their organisations more efficiently just like businesses do.

I used to say I'm not a business. I'm not! But I've had to come round to it, to acknowledge that you had to be an organisation and had to have a business dimension in order to do your passion.

Organisations and institutions are, at the end of the day, manned by people who put their shared vision above individual interests.

In politics, during my organisational roles, I have never seen gender bias within my organisation.

I love challenges in my life and I love to turn around organisations.

There cannot be any company or organisation where 100% of the people are sadhus or mahatmas.

I need to be coming off the pitch every game with my voice gone, and that's something I can bring. I am just someone who likes to organise, make sure everything is well organised, because that makes it a lot easier for yourself too.

I organised the Himachal Pradesh State Olympics, which was a huge success.

I had to stop being a student idiot and become more sensible and organised and that definitely improved my batting. I also reacted far more quickly to situations in Test cricket because I'd been a county captain. It made a huge difference.

Positive leadership - conveying the idea that there is always a way forward - is so important, because that is what you are here for - to figure out how to move the organization forward. Critical to doing that is reinforcing the idea that everyone is included.

Challenges need to be given to an organization.

The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

Leaders in an interconnected organization must be comfortable sitting in the middle of a network, not at the top of an org-chart.

Very often, we think of leadership being at the very top of an organisation. I think what's unique about ABG is that we have a very strong cadre of leaders across the organisation who are highly empowered and therefore play a very major role in the growth and evolution of the organization.

As I found while leading special operations forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, if the problem is interconnected, your organization must be, as well.

Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that.

I think the whole Rockets organization has done amazing things.

You have to be responsible when you're running an organization, and firing people who are your friends is part of that responsibility.

When the collective mentality of any organization is self and self-preservation first, it's a sure sign of pending doom.

We actually probably do nothing very special for women. But what we do in a very special manner is to remain an absolute gender-neutral, merit-based organization.

Girl Scouts is a girl-serving organization, so our members are girls.

I'm an organizational guy.

Throughout history, the organizational evolution of the military has been inextricably linked with that of the business world.