Quotes About Communication

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

Never give an order that can't be obeyed.

Next time you're about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, 'My daughter has executive leadership skills.'

You should never be so high and mighty you can't listen to somebody else and learn something from them. Leadership is as much about using the ear as using the mouth.

Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity

Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.

I have the charisma of the chipmunk. I never have thought I was smart. I thought the people I dealt with were dumb.

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

Knowledge people and service people learn the most when they teach .

Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.

A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.

The more you openly name your struggles, the less people can use your silence as a back door to blackmail you, to sabotage your leadership, or to subvert relationships within the organization.

Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.

A good leader leads from the front. Don't get stuck in the office. Get out, meet people and listen to their stories.

Communication is the conduit of leadership from the Prime Minister down to the leading hand of a small group of council workers fixing the roads. Leadership uncommunicated is leadership unrequited!

A leader who loses his connection to his people soon loses the ability to lead them.

There's nothing more demoralizing than a leader who can't clearly articulate why we're doing what we're doing.

No matter what business you're in, everyone in the organisation needs to know why

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.

Leadership is not something you do to people. It's something you do with people.

Diligent follow-up and follow-through will set you apart from the crowd and communicate excellence.

Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms.

A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.