Leadership Quotes
Delegation is not a binary thing. There are shades of grey between a dictatorship and an anarchy.
Increasingly, management’s role is not to organize work, but to direct passion and purpose.
Is it or is it not a matter of importance that a young man starts out in life with an ability to shut his jaw hard and say "I will, " or "I will not, " and mean it?
The answer from yesterday is not as critical as the questions about the future.
Your greatest area of leadership often comes out of your greatest area of pain and weakness.
He could follow someone’s mind around, and get where it was going before the other fellow knew where it was going.
The new disease of our age is being OK doing everything at exactly the same time.
Success is not money, cars, fame or material possessions but the lives you touched positively.
From her character in the HBO miniseries: "The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of the britches to the seat of the chair.
Good units walk a thin line between indiscipline and ineffectiveness. Ignore the rules too often and you’ve got a mob, but enforce the rules too strictly and you’ve got a herd.
If leadership is the spinal cord of success then discipline is its lumbar vertebrae.
Don't just DO something. Stand there! (and get perspective and understanding)
He was the first prime minister in a long time who did not have a son or a son-in-law in business or real estate
TAKE' nothing for granted..The 'GIVE' may be expensive!
Actions Matter: Do As I Do. Not As I Say.
Leadership vision is built on the leader’s authenticity.
To be effective, we have to slow down the speed of our thoughts and focus on managing our attention.
And a young prince must be prudent like that, giving freely while his father livesso that afterwards, in age when fighting startssteadfast companions will stand by himand hold the line.
All the time and effort put into networking can be all for naught if there is no follow-through. The same goes for sales. And leadership. And … well, everything.
He had to do so many things and make each appear as though it were the only thing he had to do. He had to compartmentalize everything, when on one task to pretend that the others didn't exist.
The loneliness of command had made Eisenhower emotionally self-sufficient.
When you allow yourself the abilityto challenge your doubts, to embraceyour deepest and darkest fears, that is when you learn how to bea healer and hero in your own life story~bns
Challenges in life always seek leaders and leaders seek challenges.
The key to organizational success is to integrate next generation of leaders, tap into their way of looking at the world, solve problems in a very collaborative working style.
Educated idiots are the most fearsome creatures in a leadership structure because even though trained they still refuse to think.
Our journeys are different but we can share the same well traveled path during parts of our excursion. Small victories win wars not single battles.
You can't fake a great steak nor can you convince a raging bull to give you a easy eight second ride.
Beware of simple solutions, they often lead to complex problems.
Self Care is the secret ingredient to Soldier care in a recipe that yields many servings of effective leadership.
Excuses are most valuable to the person making them but to everyone else its foreign currency with little value or not accepted at all. You are not good with me until your integrity check clears.
Never put your business in the hands of one person or a select few. People leave. People die. People forget.
Followers don't follow until they trust leaders to lead.
The troop whose captain is (apparently) not managing it, but whose girls manage themselves under the Scout laws, is the ideal troop.
Hiring should be like dating. A great marriage does not happen in a 30 minutes interview.
Never do anything as though you are a professional armature
Growing a business requires that we look at ourselves and change the way we make decisions.
Great mentors don't solve your problems, they guide you to make your best decision and encourage you to take personal ownership of the next steps for success.
A harsh word breaks the heart. A kind word can sooth the savage beast. A word never spoken can bury a burden or save a relationship.