Quotes About Leadership

You know, rural Americans are a special people. Their labor puts food on our table and fuel in our gas tanks. Their service in our military sets a powerful example of leadership, honor and sacrifice. Their spirit of community inspires us all.

Let us build a 21st-century rural economy of cutting-edge companies and technologies that lead us to energy and food security. Such an investment will revitalize rural America, re-establish our moral leadership on climate security and eliminate our addiction to foreign oil.

Eerily, the awakening occurred eighteen years to the day from Samuel Morse's "What hath God wrought" message. When Confederate general Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson changed the nature of the war by marching to threaten Washington, Lincoln responded by changing the nature of his leadership.

Be sure to look out for number One while not stepping in number Two.

People are more likely to accept your ideas if you tell them that Barack Obama said it first.

The President didn't vote for me so I'm not voting for him either.

There's no I in team, but there is in idiot.

Tož demokracii bychom už m?li, te? ješt? n?jaké ty demokraty.

How odd, then, that so much of the recent debate over getting more women into leadership positions has focused on encouraging them to mimic the maladaptive behaviours of ambitious men. Do you really want to ask women to replicate a broken model?

In most part of the world, the notion of leadership is so masculine that most people will struggle to name one famous female business leader.

This book explores a central question: what if these two observations - that most leaders are bad and that most leaders are male - are casually linked?

the under-representation of women in leadership was not due to their lack of ability or motivation, but due to our inability to detect incompetence in men.

When men are considered for leadership positions, the same traits that predict their downfall are commonly mistaken - even celebrated - as a sign of leadership or talent.

The result is a pathologic system that rewards men for their incompetence while punishing women for their competence.

How can smart and educated people make self-destructive leadership choices, political term after term, without learning the lessons from previous failures.

Since we all want better leaders, we should not lower our standards when we select women, but we should raise them when we select men.

There is a world of difference between the personality traits and behaviours it takes to be chosen as a leader and the traits and skills you need to be able to lead.

Freud argued that a leader emerges when a group of people - the followers - have replaced their own narcissism with that of the leader, so that their love for the leader is a subliminal form of self love.

if organizations want leaders to drive change, they would be well advised to hire moderate misfits rather than candidates who are a perfect fit for the current culture. A carbon copy of the rest of the team could perpetuate rather than disrupt the status quo. At the same time, hiring people who are radically different will rarely generate the desired change. More likely, these leaders would end up disrupting only themselves.

People will passionately defend the qualities of leaders they deem charismatic, just as they would blindly defend a person they are in love with: with no concern for facts or objective evidence in support of their views.

Be not the first by whom the new is tried nor the last to set the old aside.

My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent.

We don't do body counts.

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.