Quotes About Leadership

It's improper for one person to take credit when it takes so many people to build a successful organization.

The one thing you need to know about teamwork is that there is more than one thing you need to know about teamwork.

Los líderes con éxito son aprendices. Y el proceso del aprendizaje es un continuo resultado de la autodisciplina y la perseverancia.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it.

Leaders are effective because of who they are on the inside—in the qualities that make them up as people. And to go to the highest level of leadership, people have to develop these traits from the inside out.

Retired General Electric CEO Jack Welch said, "Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

Prioritize the things that yield high return. What's the key to being productive? Prioritizing. To be an effective leader, you must learn to not only get a lot done, but to get a lot of the right things done. That means understanding how to prioritize time, tasks, resources, and even people. Effective prioritizing begins with eliminating the things you shouldn't be doing.

Leading with a lack of integrity is choosing to fail before taking your first step."5

Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence. —Bernard Montgomery

Irresponsible leaders have a "me first" attitude and use their position for personal benefit.

True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned.

A team is a group of people who may not be equal in experience, talent, or education but in commitment." A

Social influence doesn't become leadership influence until the people following change their behavior and take action as a result of the interaction with the influencer.

The unexamined life is not worth leading." I would add that the unexamined leader is not worth following.

La Ley de la Influencia La verdadera medida del liderazgo es la influencia, nada más y nada menos

Influencing others is a matter of disposition, not position.

For a team to succeed, responsibility must go down deep into the organization, down to the roots. Getting that to happen requires a leader who will delegate responsibility and authority to the team. Stephen Covey remarked, "People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work, because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses." Good leaders seldom restrict their teams; they release them.

Using the word CHARISMA as an acrostic, we can define the outstanding characteristics of charismatic people: Concern Help Action Results Influence Sensitivity Motivation Affirmation Keep

Former US president Woodrow Wilson said, "If you want to make enemies, change something.

The respect that leadership must have requires that one's ethics be without question. A leader not only stays above the line between right and wrong, he stays well clear of the 'gray areas.

REMEMBER THAT THE BEST LEADER SHOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR HIRING OTHER LEADERS.

Questions + Listening = Quality Conversation. Quality Conversation = Quality Leadership.

Everyone is important, but everyone isn't equal. The person with greater experience, skill, and productivity in a given area is more important to the team in that area.

Detrás de un hombre capaz siempre hay otros hombres capaces