Quotes About Authority

People who think they're leading but have no one following them are only taking a walk.

the leader's prayer written by Pauline H. Peters: "God, when I am wrong, make me willing to change. When I am right, make me easy to live with. So strengthen me that the power of my example will far exceed the authority of my rank.

Stanley Huffty afirmó: «No es la posición lo que hace al líder, sino el líder quien establece la posición».

The greater the impact you want to make, the greater your influence needs to be. Whatever you will accomplish is restricted by your ability to lead others.

It's not the position that makes the leader; it's the leader that makes the position."

Being put in charge is not the same as being a leader.

El liderazgo es la capacidad de conseguir seguidores

Management has no power. Management has only responsibility." I

El liderazgo es influencia, nada más y nada menos.

Leaders can afford to be uncertain, but we cannot afford to be unclear. People will not follow fuzzy leadership.

No es la posición lo que hace al líder, sino el líder quien establece la posición.»

Los verdaderos líderes conocen la diferencia entre posición e influencia. Esa es la diferencia entre ser un jefe y ser un líder

If you obey all the rules… you will miss all the fun.

La Ley de la Influencia La verdadera medida del liderazgo es la influencia, nada más y nada menos

For a team to succeed, responsibility must go down deep into the organization, down to the roots. Getting that to happen requires a leader who will delegate responsibility and authority to the team. Stephen Covey remarked, "People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work, because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses." Good leaders seldom restrict their teams; they release them.

Siendo un líder de nivel intermedio en una organización, su habilidad para mantener la autoridad que le han dado depende completamente de su fidelidad para servir a las personas que le dieron esa autoridad. De la misma forma, usted debe cuidarse de intentar avanzar a expensas de su líder. Y sería sabio no tener una conversación de «si yo estuviera a cargo» con otro miembro del personal. Si usted tiene problemas con sus líderes, hable con ellos.

Los líderes posicionales buscan seguridad basándose en los títulos más que en el talento

President Abraham Lincoln once remarked, "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." Few people have more power than an American president. Being the so-called leader

Leadership is influence.

Because owners are the source of a company's authority, it follows that the need for a governing board arises only when the owners are too numerous to direct and control the company themselves. Therefore, the notion of board authority as a distinct kind of authority occurs only when there is a gap between the ownership of assets and the management of those assets.

The board's position is, therefore, to act as the link between owners and management, directing and controlling the company on the owners' behalf. Put another way, the reason owners grant such authority is to enable the board to act as the ownership in microcosm.

but now I began to notice odd moments that suggested he was not the brightest lighthouse on the coastline. For instance, he once got very cross during assembly because he felt the boys had become lazy, and so he demanded that every single boy in the school should improve his ranking in class in the course of the next fortnight.

but the insanity of punishing someone physically for getting an answer wrong. It is terrifying how much of this deeply unkind, utterly pointless, in fact, mind-bogglingly COUNTERPRODUCTIVE kind of behaviour was meted out to children over the centuries by half-witted, power-crazed zombies like this heinous old bat—a large proportion of such psychopaths allegedly acting in the name of an all-loving God

As most of us know, both the left and the right of the political spectrum is controlled by the same people