Quotes About Influence

Leaders who use coercion are interested in their own goals and seldom are interested in the wants and needs of followers. Using coercion runs counter to working with followers to achieve a common goal.

coercive leaders are Adolf Hitler in Germany, the Taliban leaders in Afghanistan, Jim Jones in Guyana, and North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong-il, each of whom has used power and restraint to force followers to engage in extreme behaviors.

experiences and the environment. The model postulates that effective problem solving and performance can be explained by the leader's basic competencies and that these competencies are in turn affected by the leader's attributes, experience, and environment.

Sheer stupidity — that much underrated force in history.

One did not have to be a Jesuit to recognize that to control the schools was to control the future.

Much as they feared democracy, they determined to shape it. Their motto became "Let us educate our new masters".

All living things affect their environment by making and transforming chemicals, and

Think about all the great leaders. Think about Obama. Think about Clinton. Think about Nelson Mandela. Think about all the people that we know who are very successful in business, in politics and religion. What are they? They tell purposeful stories. They move people to action by aiming at the heart.

Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.

AL MIRAR ATRÁS me di cuenta de que mi experiencia en Sony demostraba que contar cara a cara la historia adecuada, en el entorno preciso, en el momento idóneo y de la manera más pertinente, puede inducir a los oyentes a actuar, y también puede modificar la trayectoria de éxitos del narrador.

para tener éxito, usted tiene que convencer a otros para que respalden su visión, su sueño o su causa.

Sólo después de haber escuchado el relato saben que han escuchado y sentido una llamada a la acción que les ha transmitido el narrador.

Non-stories may provide information, but stories have a unique power to move people's hearts, minds, feet, and wallets in the story teller's intended direction.

Leadership is ultimately about leverage. Effective leaders leverage themselves—their ideas, energy, relationships, and influence—to create new patterns in organizations.

Confronted with people who have power, and who enjoy using it, I turn into a different person, a baser and meaner one.

The motive for our actions doesn't lie ahead of us. It's something behind us that we're trying to escape.

In the long run, you can never be any better than your surroundings. When you are in the company of people who look down upon themselves as though they are animals, you, too, become like an animal. Or worse, because animals do not despise themselves.

Do you think that people determine their own lives, Smilla?" "The details," I say, "but the big things happen on their own.

If you want to know who the real heroes of world history are, just look at the mothers.

Kinder haben keine Vorurteile, und die Urteile werden ihnen erst gemacht. Nicht von den Dichtern, sondern von denen, die scheinbar erfolgreich die Gegenwart besetzen.

Everyone, it seemed to me, ought to know about Lincoln Steffens.

Roman language, Latin, is the foundation of not just Italian, but also of French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian. Latin also left a deep impression on non-Latin languages, such as English. Even after Latin fell out of everyday use, it remained the unifying language of learning, particularly medicine and science.

join the Nazi Party and try to influence it from within, "you reckon that you can still have a say in things. . . . [But] he who enters this tumbling avalanche only increases the plunging mass.

Two caveats about this collective brainwashing need stressing. First, it did not necessarily change what older people thought, but it decisively changed what they would say or do.