Leadership Quotes
Align your voice value with the tone, pace, and pitch of your listeners will help you connect on all levels.
When your speaking style is clear, confident, and concise, your listeners will perceive you as such.
Developing your eloquence and enunciation will reduce the likelihood of misinterpretation and misunderstanding, making your delivery more powerful.
By speaking in a competent and confident way, your message will sound more relevant and appropriate, reflecting you in a favorable light.
Variety is the Spice of Life. Voices come in all shapes, tones, and sizes. Some are compelling and effective, while others are grating and agitating.
Think of the times that others remembered your name and used it kindly. How did it make you feel? When you use someone’s name it makes him or her feel recognized, appreciated, and special.
What determines whether the usage is acceptable or inappropriate? If you want to make a great first impression with positive impact, it is essential that you know there is a difference.
Every time you speak, you are using your voice to connect with others, whether it is in-person, on the phone, or in a recorded message.
Is your voice value delivering the image you wish to convey? Is your voice coming across as smart, friendly, and positive or ignorant, rude, and negative?
The way you deliver the words you say becomes your “vocal image. This "vocal image" can make or break your first impressions, impact your communication, and determine how people respond to you.
What can you do to ensure that your voice value translates into impression value?
Contemporaries of Alexander Hamilton noticed "his conspicuous sense of self-possession, his unique combination of serenity and energy.
its size, the House was an environment in which, as one observer put it, members “could be dealt with only in bodies and droves.
While Lyndon Johnson was not, as his two assistants knew, a reader of books, he was, they knew, a reader of men— a great reader of men.
People fail to realize there's a difference in kinds of money. There is old money and there is new money. Old money has political power but new money has only purchasing power. (1963)
Psychology of small things rules.
Jason (Elam, a Christian) is the kid in high school who gets along equally well with the jocks, the brains, the geeks, and the slackers, and influences their behavior.
The great actors always play themselves.
One biographer said Kennedy lived along the line where charm became power.
his was a profession in which a good leader constantly had to adapt to new weapons, whether he liked them or not,
Leaders need to sacrifice "power-over" to get "power-to".
Strategic coherence is more important than strategic perfection.
Leaders need to correct for cognitive biases the way a sharpshooter corrects for wind velocity or a yachtsman corrects for the tide.
Yesterday’s decision-making strategies are ill-equipped to deal with petabyte information flows.
It is time to euthanize change management.
The notion of "business as usual" is a harmful myth.
A president must know what it is he does not know, and he should remain calm in pursuit of it, but there is no obligation to be honest about it.
A good businessman knows how to make a profit. An engineer makes sure it runs well. We need more leaders who are task oriented.
The manager needs only a molehill to build a mountain, but the money-ger needs a full mountain to build another.
#PRAISE #CRITICISM #NEUTRALIf you live off people's compliments..you will soon die of their criticism..
Mounting tensions in Eastern Europe send shivers down the spine. Barely a quarter of a century after the end of the Cold War we seem to be sliding inexorably towards another.
The strategic center of the rebellion was not a place – not New York, Philadelphia, not the Hudson corridor – but the Continental Army itself.
Africa must remain on the path of democracy. But democracy MUST also remain about the PEOPLE, not about power
Your men will not take the hill if you're simply yelling commands from the safety of the rear.
If I have to dangle myself in the water like a freaking minnow, I will. Those people don't deserve this type of treatment. ~Willow Mosby (Exposing ELE)
We have minds that are equipped for certainty, linearity and short-term decisions, that must instead make long-term decisions in a non-linear, probabilistic world.
If you like tiger cubs, you got to get into the den!
To take risk and fail is not a failure. Real failure is to fear taking any risk
Those who do not appreciate the value of time are celebrity failures. Success is time management.
