Quotes About Influence

The leader who has the most influence over your desire to stay or leave, your commitment to the organization's vision and values, your ethical decisions and actions, your treatment of customers, your ability to do your job well, and the direction of your career, to name but a few outcomes, is your most immediate manager.

The Kouzes-Posner First Law of Leadership: If you don't believe in the messenger, you won't believe the message. Leaders

Leaders enlist others in a common vision by appealing to shared aspirations.

Un líder accede al corazón y a la mente de la gente, no solo a su bolsillo.

Leaders must ask themselves, "What do I stand for? What are the principles that guide me in my day-to-day work and keep me here in this job, doing this work, and supporting these people?" Once affirmed, leaders must act out their values, demonstrating what they mean.

The central task for leaders is inspiring a shared vision, not selling their personal view of the world. You need to imagine the end result and be able to communicate your vision such that your constituents find a way to achieve their hopes and dreams while achieving that result.

If you follow someone who's universally viewed as having impeccable character and strong integrity, then you're likely to be viewed the same. If you willingly follow someone who's considered dishonest and unethical, your own image is tarnished.

It lies not only in recognizing that not all human influences are necessarily coercive and exploitative, that not all transactions among persons are mechanical, impersonal, ephemeral.

It lies in seeing that the most powerful influences consist of deeply human relationships in which two or more persons engage with one another.

Essential in a concept of power is the role of purpose.

Power has been defined as the production of intended effects, but the crux of the matter lies in the dimensions of "intent.

James MacGregor Burns

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree

Just because you toast marshmallows with a kid on a camping trip doesn't mean he'll become a Boy Scout.

It was in her sense of education, more than any other, that Mommy conveyed her Jewishness to us. She admired the way Jewish parents raised their children to be scholastic standouts, insulating them from a potentially harmful and dangerous public school system by clustering together within certain communities, to attend certain schools, to be taught by certain teachers who enforced discipline and encouraged learning, and she followed their lead.

And you say to yourself, They will remember him. He will make them remember him. He's hollering from the back of the bus of history, just so they'll know who he is. So Vanessa will know him. And Cecil. And Maddy. And Laura. And Helen. And even little Ni Ni and the twins Malcolm and Malik. And in knowing who he is, maybe they will one day know who they are.

In the end, every person's life is a tough act to follow.

The chief problem with television is that, for those who watch it consistently, it undermines and eventually destroys the ability to think. This is because it communicates primarily images, not by words, and words are necessary if we are to perceive logical connections and make judgments as to what is right and wrong.

Funboy: Pal, something is seriously wrong with you. The Crow: Atrocity has that effect on me.

This your brain. This is your brain on Facebook. Any questions?

People, my god; people. Nature gave them tongues, technology gave them loudspeakers, and they all believe that because they can use both, whatever they say is important.