Quotes About Leadership

According to de Gaulle's account, Blum assured him of his interest in the soldier's ideas. 'But you fought against them,' his visitor observed. 'One changes one's point of view when one becomes head of the government,' came the reply.

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Sometimes, he [Congressmen John Lewis] said, you have to ask for something that you know you may not get. And still you have to ask for it. It's still worth fighting for and, even if you don't believe that you will see it in your lifetime, you have got to hold it up so that the generation that comes next will take it from your hands and, in their own time, see it as a goal worth fighting for again.

As a manager, the more you talk about something without following up with action, the less those words will matter.

In my new business, this is one of the things we work actively with CEOs to see: how one idea from the top can spiral into 100 projects for the team and overwhelm them in ways the CEOs can't even imagine. But

Great accountability is nothing more and nothing less than having the courage to demand that the people who work for you use their strengths in a responsible way. Learning

Cultural listening is the skill of being able to see beyond the symptom to the underlying dynamic. It's an extremely powerful tool to develop as a leader, whether you're the CEO, a team leader, or a solopreneur just starting out.

a manager inhabits the most interpersonally complex role in a modern organization, in many ways more complex than the CEO role.

To be a manager is to be part detective. The clues are everywhere, the skill is in reading them. When

When you're a dad, there's no one above you. If I don't do something that has to be done, who is going to do it?

Golda Meir had told Anwar Sadat: "We can forgive you for killing our children, but we will never forgive you for making us kill yours.

The moral strength of an army is impaired by every injustice, whether it personally touches an individual soldier or not. When Agamemnon wrongly seizes Achilles' prize of honor, he inflicts an injury not on just this one man but on this whole army.

Fighting spirit, a ringing term that broadly refers to a soldier's readiness to move in on any enemy rather than flee or freeze, is essential for survival in combat...however, the folk culture of the American military, especially during the Vietnam War, merged fighting spirit with being berserk. Leadership beliefs encouraged the conversion of grief into berserk rage as a militarily desirable consequence.

He likewise directed, "that every senator in the great council of a nation, after he had delivered his opinion, and argued in the defence of it, should be obliged to give his vote directly contrary; because if that were done, the result would infallibly terminate in the good of the public.

When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens,) five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope; and whoever jumps the highest, without falling, succeeds in the office.

Hükümdarl??a verilen en büyük hizmetler, tutkular?n? kar??lamakta gösterilen eksiklikle tart?ya vurulunca, ne de çabuk deÄŸerden düÅŸüyorlar.

In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man incapable of holding any public station; for

God wants us to be a good example to others who are observing us.

It is a fact, indeed, that most of the great teachers of mankind have been not writers but speakers. Think of Pythagoras, Christ, Socrates, the Buddha, and so on. And since I have spoken of Socrates, I would like to say something about Plato. I remember Bernard Shaw said that Plato was the dramatist who invented Socrates

Aprendió el arte vagabundo de los troperos. Aprendió el otro, más difícil, de mandar hombres; ambos lo ayudaron a ser un buen ladrón de hacienda.

Bandeira, sin embargo, siempre es nominalmente el jefe. Da órdenes que no se ejecutan

Burning books and erecting fortifications are the usual occupations of princes. - The Wall and the Books

Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. Peter F. Drucker and Joseph A. Maciariello, Management: Revised Edition, 2008, p. 288.

Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can't bother about where they're going.