Quotes About Authority

2. God commanded both male and female to have dominion (v. 27). Both men and women have been given the ability and authority to lead. Leadership is not gender specific.

The boss drives his workers; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on goodwill. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says "I"; the leader, "we." The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss knows how it is done; the leader shows how. The boss says, "Go"; the leader says, "Let's go!

La verdadera medida del liderazgo es la influencia, nada más, nada menos».

Even the choicest words lose their power when they are used to overpower.

Los resultados hablan más alto, para nuestros jefes y para aquellos a quienes lideramos.

THE INSTRUMENT OF LEADERSHIP

Los administradores pueden mantener el rumbo, pero no pueden cambiarlo. Para cambiar el rumbo de las personas, se necesita influencia.

Compulsion is the method of slavery; persuasion is the method of free men.

Good leaders will gain in influence beyond their stated position. Bad leaders will shrink their influence down so that it is actually less than what originally came with the position. Remember, a position doesn't make a leader, but a leader can make the position.

But empowering others by giving them your authority has the same effect as sharing information: You haven't lost anything. You have increased the ability of others without decreasing yourself.

La influencia debe ser algo que se gana.

There is definitely a link between ownership and success. You don't get the latter without the former

una posición no hace al líder, es el líder el que hace la posición.

Only a leader who has followed well knows how to lead others well. Good leadership requires an understanding of the world that followers live in. Connecting with your people becomes possible because you have walked in their shoes. You know what it means to be under authority and thus have a better sense of how authority should be exercised. In contrast, leaders who have never followed well or submitted to authority tend to be prideful, unrealistic, rigid, and autocratic. "Civilization

Usted puede concederle una posición a alguien, pero no puede concederle un verdadero liderazgo.

En el liderazgo, no importa dónde usted esté en la organización, lo más importante es, siempre, la influencia.

En muchas organizaciones, al ir escalando posiciones, se dará cuenta que la cantidad de responsabilidad que conlleva aumenta más rápido que la cantidad de autoridad que usted recibe.

when the real leader speaks, people listen. Leadership is influence-nothing more, nothing less.

If you don't have influence, you will never be able to lead others.

El que se cree líder y no tiene seguidores, sólo está dando un paseo».

titles don't have much value when it comes to leading.

One of the quickest ways to gain credibility with an individual, a group, or an audience is to borrow it from someone who already has credibility with them.

People don't want to be managed. They want to be led. Whoever heard of a world manager? World leader, yes. Education leader, yes. Political leader. Religious leader. Scout leader. Community leader. Labor leader. Business leader. Yes. They lead.

It's like the mom who told the little kid to sit down in the grocery cart at the supermarket. He kept standing up and she kept telling him to sit down. Finally she reprimanded him firmly enough that he sat down. She heard him whisper to himself as he was scrambling down, "I may be sitting down on the outside, but I'm standing up on the inside!" When