Quotes About Leadership

One of the deans of the Graduate School of Management at UCLA had a sign on his door that read something like: "Warning: I might incorporate you to implement your own ideas." The sign itself, I was told, made several creative faculty members turn away with their suggestions while still at the door.

Analysis of the history of any successful organization will show that it owed its success to a team of people whose styles, behavior, and needs were different but who could work together. Although organizational success is usually attributed to one person, behind that person is a team that enabled him to perform well.

Frederick Hertzberg begins his famous article "One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees?" as follows: "How many articles, books, speeches, and workshops have pleaded plaintively, 'How do I get an employee to do what I want him to do?'" (italics added). Read it again. Is Hertzberg speaking about motivation or manipulation? In

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

Saying of the Prophet The Judge A man appointed to be a judge has been killed without a knife.

For every Pharoah there is a Moses.

When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.

Almost every day I am reminded of Saadi's reflection that there is no senseless tyranny like that of subordinates.

The worst of sages is a visitor of princes; the best of princes is a visitor of sages.

SOVEREIGNTY Sovereignty is a wind of change. (Hariri)

If you cannot sit on a throne like a king, seize, like a tent-pitcher, the rope of the Royal tent.

Sé un perro, pero no seas un hermano menor.

Beggars and Workers IT IS RELATED of Ibn el-Arabi that people said to him: 'Your circle is composed mainly of beggars, husbandmen and artisans. Can you not find people of intellect who will follow you, so that perhaps more authoritative notice might be taken of your teachings?' He said: 'The Day of Calamity will be infinitely

Por cada Faraón hay un Moisés.

Soberanía: La soberanía es un viento de cambio. Hariri

Si no puedes sentarte en un trono como un rey, sujeta, como un tendero, la cuerda de la tienda Real.

Hay muchos Sufis que no son guías.

For every Pharaoh there is a Moses.

It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?

En manos de los políticos, todo proyecto acaba en una antigua forma de infelicidad, ya no merecen nuestra entrega ni nuestra obligación.

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.

Alex the lion in the Madagascar

Grand Ole Opry appearances were a loss leader. Like

Empires are built and will crumble; even Genghis Khan did not live forever.