Quotes About Adaptability

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Leaders who refuse to listen, will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing helpful to say

The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.

Jazz, like leadership, combines the unpredictability of the future with the gifts of individuals.

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

The best leaders don't know just one style of leadership—they're skilled at several, and have the flexibility to switch between styles as the circumstances dictate.

In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough.

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

Leadership requires creating conditions that enable employees to do the kinds of experimentation that entrepreneurship requires.

A leader should have higher endurance and ability to accept and embrace failure.

If we are to remain mission focused, as we must be if we are to be relevant in an uncertain age, the abandoning those things that do not further the mission is a leadership imperative.

Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver.

We believed it was not our formations that made us good, but rather how we played.

Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had.

Flexibility in a time of great change is a vital quality of leadership.

Leading a big company means never allowing a company to take itself too seriously.

Leadership is about keeping toilets flushing," the Admiral once said. "Unless you're on the battlefront. Then it's about staying alive. Neither are pleasant.

In my view it is better for the Labour Party, the leadership and the new prime minister that he be given the maximum flexibility.

No one ever has the resources they need.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.

Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn.

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind.

If you are going to have a risk-taking culture, you can't really look at every failure as a failure, you've got to be able to look at the failure as a learning opportunity.

Can we learn to become more learning-oriented individually and collectively, rather than 'I know' oriented?