Quotes About Leadership

More formal and structured meetings also tend to skip over at least one critical issue, such as why the project is being done in the first place.

Vertical control, in contrast, manages thinking, development, and coordination of individual topics and projects.

When change is required, there must be trust that the initiatives for that change will be dealt with appropriately.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. —Edward Gibbon At

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. —Edward Gibbon

Males. You have to lead them to the water and then show them how to slurp it.

Sheep follow blindly. We're not supposed to be sheep.

captain of the boxing team. If you

People need to have faith in their government." Decker said, "Well, maybe the government might want to consider earning that faith.

You can't command men in battle if they like you

You can't command men in battle if they like you, Bob," his father had said. "They have to have equal parts fear and respect.

As opposed to what? A country run by old white billionaires and their paid lackeys in Washington?

Although America loved its tough guys, they weren't ready to vote for leaders who exhibited no compassion for the downtrodden and miserable, for on any given day they might constitute a majority.

You know what kind of person it takes to run for President? Not normal. They could start out okay, but by the time they reach that level they've sold their soul to the devil so many times and stomped the guts out of enough people that they are definitely not like you and me, not even close." Frank

All doors opened for the leader of the free world and he strode into the White House like he owned it. Which unofficially he did. Though financed by the American taxpayers, it was really his house, his chopper, his jumbo jet. No one got to come for a visit or go for a ride if he didn't say it was okay.

Los mejores líderes dejan que su gente haga lo que mejor sabe hacer.

Franklin Roosevelt was pretty good." "He was already rich. Nobody could touch him.

And when they were elected, they arrived in Washington with absolutely no idea what to do. Their only goal had already been achieved: They had won their campaign. However

presidents had to make

An army controlled by the whim of the lowest soldier is not an army at all. It is anarchy.

If it comes to it, don't miss, guys, he said under his breath. When the president appeared, he was boxed in on all sides by the A-team protection detail that formed a wall of Kevlar and flesh around him. Alex knew these agents; they were a rock-solid crew. The president stepped onto the stage and shook some important hands while his wife, the governor, the chief of staff and Gray took their seats behind the podium. Brennan joined them

have under his thumb powerful congressmen, senators, even the vice president himself

While it was true that the president of the United States was the world's ultimate juggler of tasks, it was also a fact that the First Lady, traditionally, was no slouch in that department either.

he would have been under the tutelage of a two-star.