Quotes About Leadership

If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.

the fear of conflict is almost always a sign of problems.

teamwork is not a virtue. It is a choice—and a strategic one.

Members of teams that tend to avoid conflict must occasionally assume the role of a "miner of conflict"—someone who extracts buried disagreements within the team and sheds the light of day on them. They must have the courage and confidence to call out sensitive issues and force team members to work through them. This requires a degree of objectivity during meetings and a commitment to staying with the conflict until it is resolved. Some

The enemy of accountability is ambiguity

executives must put the needs of the higher team ahead of the needs of their departments.

The single greatest advantage any company can achieve is organizational health.

THE BIBLE TELLS US, "Go and make disciples … baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" (Matthew 28:19). Sometimes we get this confused with, "Go and make workers … browbeating them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

Is there any way we can get society right if we don't first get the church right? If that is true, then is there any way we can get the church right if we don't first get families right? If that is true, is there any way we can get families right, if we don't first get marriages right? And if that is true, is there any way we can get marriages right if we don't get men right?

Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.

Because I'm not blind to how Harry works, you know," she said. "A bully with charisma and top marks is still a bully." She sighed, annoyed. "He'll probably end up Prime Minister one day. God help us all.

And what exactly do you think this proves?" he spits. "You've got power, but you don't know what to do with it." VIOLA "Looks like I'm doing fine," I say.

You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less

I have two maxims that I believe, dear girl. One, if you can control yourself, you can control others. Two, if you can control information, you can control others.

A bully with charisma and top marks is still a bully. He'll probably end up Prime Minister one day. God help us all.

Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor?" She smiles. "He doesn't stand a chance.

Sometimes the people don't know what's best for them, Ivan," she says. "Sometimes the people have to be convinced of things that are necessary. That's what leadership is. Not shouting your head off in support of their every whim.

A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not." "An army is," I say. "Only if it has a general for a brain.

A bully with charisma and top marks is still a bully.

A bully with charisma and top marks is still a bully. She sighed, annoyed. He'll probably end up Prime Minister one day, God help us all.

Hmm," Mistress Coyle hmms.

The attractiveness of power is something you should learn about before you get too much older, it's the thing that separates men from boys, tho not in the way most men think.

That's a load of crap!" Conor shouted. "He didn't need to kill her. The people were behind him. They would have followed him anyway." The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster. And so the injustice that I saw, the reason that I came walking, was for the queen, not the prince.

She's always saying that being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day." She catches my eye. "Which is something I believe, too.