Organizational Leadership Quotes

Organizational Leadership Quote of the day

The high quality of a company’s customer experience rarely has anything to do with the high price of their product.

Emotional commitment is a personal choice. Managers understand this even if their companies don’t.

The company may have captured their minds, their bodies and their pockets, but that doesn’t mean it’s captured their hearts.

Values are deeply held personal beliefs that form your own priority code for living.

Success means: I want to know the work I do means something to somebody and helps make the world, if not a Better place, not a worse one.

Your values are your essence: an undistorted mirror showing you at your pure, attractive best.

Careful now: even a financially rewarding, intellectually stimulating work environment isn’t the same as living your own values.

Values are the individual biases that allow you to decide which actions are true for you alone.

Success for Managers means: I want to be in healthy relationships. I want a real connection with people I spend so much time with.

Let’s get right on top of the bottom line: You must live your personal values at work.

Any expert will tell you that if you want emotionally committed relationships then people must be allowed to be true to who they are.

When you’re not on your own agenda, you’re prey to the agenda of others.

To integrate one’s experiences around a coherent and enduring sense of self lies at the core of creating a user’s guide to life.

Leaders are people who know exactly who they are. They know exactly where they want to go. They’re hell-bent on getting there.

Leaders make a lot of mistakes but they admit those mistakes to themselves and change because of them.

Managers know what they want most: to be allowed to achieve success by leveraging who they are, not by compromising it.

A manager’s emotional commitment is worth more than their financial, intellectual and physical commitment combined.

Companies should be the best possible place to practice fulfillment, to live out values and to realize deep connectivity and purpose.

The heart of a company’s performance is hardwired to the hearts of its managers.

Do you think your people struggle with being true to themselves? Do their values match up with their work?

Hard-core results come from igniting the massive power of emotional commitment. Are your people committed?

When you don’t know what true for you, everyone else has unusual influence.

Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor.

To the disrupters go the spoils.

We can never fall short when it comes to recruiting, hiring, maintaining and growing our workforce. It is the employees who make our organization’s success a reality.

To make a decision, all you need is authority. To make a good decision, you also need knowledge, experience, and insight.

One of the greatest responsibilities of an organization’s leadership is to communicate with unwavering clarity the values on which the organization has been built.

Dialogue teaches you to listen through your emotions, not to become distracted or distanced from the truth because of them.

Dialogue reminds us that we can question to build, not only to doubt or deconstruct.

I'd rather do more with the same, then the same with less.

If you can't tell someone how to think, then you have to learn to manage the environment where they think.

Getting your ego out of the way has an even deeper organizational impact.

Imagine a world where what you say synchs up, not sinks down.

The first step to solving any problem is to accept one’s own accountability for creating it.

Being relevant to your customers only when you’re trying to sell something means choosing to be irrelevant to them for the rest of the time.

There will be plenty of other problems in the future. This is as good a time as any to get ahead of them.

The economy is in ruins! Bottom line? Good management will defeat a bad economy.

Your company is its own competition and can deliver itself debilitating blows the competition only dreams of.

Instead of waiting for a leader you can believe in, try this: Become a leader you can believe in.

The purpose of leadership is to change the world around you in the name of your values, so you can live those values more fully.

Profitability. Growth. Quality. Exceeding customer expectations. These are not examples of values. These are examples of corporate strategies being sold to you as values.

When you’re a manager, you work for your company. When you’re a leader, your company works for you.

Work/life balance is not about escaping work. It’s about living exactly the way you want to when you’re at work.

What first separates a leader from a normal human being? A leader knows who they are as a human being.

True leaders live their values everywhere, not just in the workplace.

The worst thing in your own development as a leader is not to do it wrong. It’s to do it for the wrong reasons.

When rewards come from an external source instead of an internal source, they’re unreliable, which means they’re dangerous if you grow to depend on them.

Human behavior is only unpredictable and dangerous if you don’t start from humanity in the first place.

The first step out of the gate has to be knowing where you want to end up. What do you really want from your company?

Why live my personal values at work? This is an excellent question to ask. If your attorneys are planning an insanity defense.