Quotes About Leadership

worst team member is the best predictor of how any team performs. It doesn't seem to matter how great the best member is,

So much of leadership is learning to give a damn about other people, something that we programmers are notoriously bad at.

If you do not trust your people, you will not get their whole-hearted effort and you will not capitalize on the enormous creative potential of cohesive and motivated teamwork. It

Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying no to all but the most crucial features.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight quickly recognized that Riswold

The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.

Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.

A functioning team is more than just a group of people with a common goal. It's a group of people who can work toward that common goal despite having different opinions about how to reach it. No, not everyone has the same say. No, not everyone's opinion will play a part in the end. The boss makes the final decision and will live or hang by that decision.

How do successful leaders respond when someone congratulates them on a good job? They start talking about the great team they've got working for them. How this person or that person stepped up in the effort. Or how everyone really came together to pull through. Why? Because they know what it takes to succeed. It takes a team.

The greatest enthusiasm in the world won't make up for a business plan that doesn't work.

People of color are allowed, even required to perform, and, especially these days on issues of race, to edify as well. 'Here you are, now entertain us'. But are we allowed to lead?

commander may be forgiven for being defeated, but never for being surprised.

When your brain is always engaged, when your neurons are always firing, when you find yourself in a continual mode of reacting and responding, instead of steering and directing, the best and brightest solutions that you are capable of producing rarely see the light of day.

In his entire life, George Washington never spent a second watching CNN Headline News or making a Facebook post, and he had no Twitter followers!

Achieving simplicity begins with the basic notion that you're the captain of your fate: you are in control, steer the rudder, pull the lever, flip the switch, and call the shots.

I love to be directed. They can trust me and go.

Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.

Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.

Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.

He liked order and precision, and his crew knew it. He had hand-picked each and every one of them, and he'd never sailed with a finer group of men. Not that he would ever say it out loud, but they knew it.

I must admit that I feel that the best form of government is benevolent despotism.

If anything was certain, it was that there would always be people looking for someone to tell them what to believe in and what to do.