Warren G Quotes

The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices.

Make sure you have someone in your life from whom you can get reflective feedback.

If you're the leader, you've got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies - that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.

The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.

Recognize and respect mutual self-interests, then build creative collaborations to serve them.

The first job of a leader is to define a vision for the organization...the capacity to translate vision into reality.

A leader is someone whose actions have the most profound consequences on other people's lives, for better or worse, sometime forever and ever.

Some of the strongest resistance to necessary change is the result of what Jim O'Toole has so aptly characterized as "the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom."

One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.

Successful leaders are great askers

Understand the "Pygmalion Effect": Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.

Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.

Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.

Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.

If I had to reduce the responsibilities of a good follower to a single rule, it would be to speak truth to power.

Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.

Encourage reflective backtalk: Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.

Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.

Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.

In great groups, the right people always have the right job.

All great leaders constantly seek new information and new ways of thinking.

Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.

All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

That's important to remember: it's not just a collection of great individuals but a group of people who enjoy playing in the sandbox, thoroughly enjoying collaborative problem solving.

Great leaders love talent and know where to find it. They surround themselves with talented people who can work effectively together.

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's present and when it's not.

Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.

Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.

Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.

Perhaps the central task of the leader of leaders thus becomes the development of other leaders.

The basis of leadership is the capacity of the leader to change the mindset, the framework of the other person.

That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.

Understand the "Gretzky Factor": Cultivate an instinct, a "touch", call it what you will, that enables you to know both where the "puck" is now and where it will be soon.

Create strategic alliances and partnerships: Now and in years to come, shrewd leaders will create allegiances with other organizations whose fates are correlated with their own.

No leader can create sustainable, significant change without a reservoir of good will. Without that, you always tend to compromise with failure.

If I were to give off-the-cuff advice to anyone trying to institute change, I would say, "How clear is the metaphor?"

Judgment without character is expediency... or worse.

People who know what they want and why they want it, and have the skills to communicate that to others in a way that gains support

First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.

A passion for continual learning, a refined, discerning ear for the moral and ethical consequences of their actions, and an understanding of the purposes of work and human organisations

Neotony is a metaphor for the quality of life - the gift - that keeps the fortunate of whatever age focused on all the marvelous undiscovered things to come.

See the long view: By all means "plant the corn, milk the cows, and feed the horses" but always keep the eventual "harvest" in mind.

This duality, making yourself better while teaching and developing others' judgment capabilities, is the key to leadership that is both productive and principled.

Inherent rights are from God, and the tragedies of the world originate in their attempted denial.

I have no trouble with my enemies - I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends... They're the ones that keep me walking the floors at night!

Honesty is the great essential. It exalts the individual citizenship, and, without honesty, no man deserves the confidence of the people in private pursuit or in public office.

America's present need is not heroics but healing not nostrums but normalcy not revolution but restoration.