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Quotes About Connection

The essence of leadership is not giving things or even providing visions. It is offering oneself and one's spirit.
~ Lee G. Bolman
Communication is the real work of leadership.
~ Nitin Nohria
The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
~ Dallas Willard
All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.
~ John C. Maxwell
Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.
~ Winston Churchill
If we lose sight of people, we lose sight of the very purpose of leadership.
~ Tony Dungy
The moment I decided to follow instead of lead, I discovered the joys of becoming part of a small child's world.
~ Janet Gonzalez-Mena
A good leader leads from the front. Don't get stuck in the office. Get out, meet people and listen to their stories.
~ Richard Branson
The most important thing in good leadership is truly caring.
~ Dean Smith
A leader who loses his connection to his people soon loses the ability to lead them.
~ Robert Ley
By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.
~ Nhat Hanh
A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.
~ Max McKeown, The Strategy Book
There is no mystery about successful business.... Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you.
~ Charles William Eliot
Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation - and about fundamental relations with one's fellows.
~ Tom Peters
Everyone wants to connect with someone who people think is someone.
~ Johnny Hunt
Listen more than you talk.
~ Jeff Henderson
We want time in with our kids not time out.
~ Andy Stanley
Why do we value leadership, connection and grace? Because it's scarce, and that scacity creates value.
~ Seth Godin
The power for authentic leadership is found not in external arrangements, but in the human heart.
~ Parker J. Palmer
It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
~ James H. Boren
In the end, leadership is not intellectual or cognitive. Leadership is emotional.
~ Judith M Bardwick
Relational skills are the most important abilities in leadership.
~ John C. Maxwell
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Marketing management is now tribal leadership.
~ Seth Godin