Quotes About Clarity

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

Leadership is about going somewhere. If you and your people don't know where you are going, your leadership doesn't matter.

A great opportunity is often hard to be explained clearly; things that can be explained clearly are often not the best opportunities.

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

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.

The most important quality of leadership is intellectual honesty. The reality principle - the ability to see the world as it really is, not as you wish it were.

It's lonely at the top, so you better know why you are there.

Leaders identify, articulate, and summarize concepts that motivate others. Most important, they boil concepts down to an understandable idea.

It is the job of leaders to eliminate uncertainty.

If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer.

Leadership is communicating people's worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it themselves.

But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.

Make sure your vision is God's vision.

The yearning for strong leadership is more about strength of purpose - clarity of vision - than about merely 'getting tough'.

We are far more effective on the inside looking out than the outside looking in.

Purpose is a soft virtue- but it's what gives you steel in your spine.

Effective communication is the best way to solve problems.

If you want to be a leader, it doesn't mean that you have to have an opinion on everything. But if you do have an opinion and it is clear and you feel strongly about it, then you should say it.

Trying to get people to face reality and see the world the way it really is is an absolutely critical aspect of leadership, in my view.

In healthy individuals, emotions don't distort rationality, they enhance it!

If we're all on the same page, no one's reading the whole book.

All you need to do is know who you are.

It's hard to look at things that are too close.