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| Det är bättre att leda från bakgrunden och sätta andra i förgrunden, särskilt när du firar seger när trevliga saker händer. Du intar frontlinjen när det är fara å färde. Då kommer människor att uppskatta ditt ledarskap. | Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) |
| En ledare är som bäst då folket knappt känner till hans existens, när hans arbete är utfört, hans mål uppnått, kommer de säga: vi gjorde det själva. | Lao-Tse (604 f.Kr.-531 f.Kr.) |
| Ingen man kan bli en bra ledare om han vill få allting gjort själv, eller få äran för att ha gjort det. | Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) |
| Jag har en annorlunda vision av ledarskap. En ledare är någon som för människor samman. | George W. Bush (1946-) |
| Lederskab er et hårdere job end blot at vælge side. Lederskab må bringe sider sammen. | Jesse Jackson (1941-) |
| Management vil sige, at ti personer betales for det, som fem kunne gøre billigere, hvis de faktisk kun var tre, og to af dem oveni købet var syge. | Kay Nielsen |
| Vi betragter stadig en stærk mand som den fødte leder - og en stærk kvinde som en afvigelse. | Margaret Atwood (1939-) |
| Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise bureaucrats | Alvin Toffler (1928-) |
| The smaller the function, the greater the management. | Cyril Northcote Parkinson (1909-1993) |
| The secret to managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided. | Casey Stengel (1891-1975) |
| Statistics indicate that, as a result of overwork, modern executives are dropping like flies on the nation's golf courses. | Ira Wallach |
| Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. | Frank McKinney Hubbard (1868-1930) |
| A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him. | Lao-Tse (604 f.Kr.-531 f.Kr.) |
| If I had to sum up in one word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act. | Lee Iacocca (1924-) |
| Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't. | Peter F. Drucker (1909-) |
| Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force.... | Peter F. Drucker (1909-) |
| People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction. | Alexander Chase |
| You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader. | Anthony J. D'Angelo |
| The only real training for leadership is leadership. | Anthony Jay |
| No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one. | Archibald Wavell (1883-) |
| One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. | Arnold H. Glasgow |
| I've found without question that the best way to lead others to a more plant-based diet is by example - to lead with your fork, not your mouth. | Bernie Wilke |
| Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had. | Billy Bragg (1957-) |
| Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous. | Bill Bradley (1943-) |
| Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better. | Bill Bradley (1943-) |
| The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players. | Blaine Lee |
| The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself. | Blaine Lee |
| If you cannot serve, you cannot rule | Bulgarian Proverb |
| A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could | Charles Erwin Wilson |
| A leader may symbolize and express what is best in people, like Pericles, or what is worst, like Hitler, but he cannot successfully express what is only in his heart and not in theirs | Charles Yost |
| The leader must know, most know that he knows, and must be able to make it abundantly clear to those about him that he knows. | Clarence B. Randall |
| A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader. | Daisaku Ikeda (1928-) |
| A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there. | David R. Gergen |
| One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you. | Dennis A. Peer |
| Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want. | Dianne Feinstein (1933-) |
| Leadership is action, not position. | Donald H. McGannon |
| Throw away those books and cassettes on inspirational leadership. Send those consultants packing. Know your job, set a good example for the people under you and put results over politics. That's all the charisma you'll really need to succeed. | Dyan Machan |
| The only safe ship in a storm is leadership. | Faye Wattleton (1943-) |
| The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership. | Gary Wills |
| Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned. | Harold S. Geneen (1910-1997) |
| In this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam may be god. | Hugh Sidey (1927-) |
| Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance. | J. Donald Walters |
| Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. | Jack Welch |
| The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there | James Buchanan (1791-1868) |
| The man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. | James Crook |
| Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average. | Jim Rohn |
| To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going. | Joe Namath (1943-) |
| Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people. | Sr. John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) |
| Leadership is an interactive conversation that pulls people toward becoming comfortable with the language of personal responsibility and commitment. | John G Agno |
| Leadership development is not an event. | John G Agno |
| Leadership is applicable to all facets of life: a competency that you can learn to expand your perspective, set the context of a goal, understand the dynamics of human behavior and take the initiative to get to where you want to be. | John G Agno |
| A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops. | John J. Pershing (1860-) |
| In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it. | John J. Sweeney |
| All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. | John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-) |
| We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership. | John Kotter |
| Great leadership does not mean running away from reality. Sometimes the hard truths might just demoralize the company, but at other times sharing difficulties can inspire people to take action that will make the situation better. | John Kotter |
| Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. | John Maxwell (1512-1583) |
| If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. | John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) |
| Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice. | Max Depree |
| Leadership is liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and humane way possible. | Max Depree |
| The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict? | Max De Pree |
| The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. | Max De Pree |
| In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when. | Max De Pree |
| A business leader has to keep their organization focused on the mission. That sounds easy, but it can be tremendously challenging in today's competitive and ever-changing business environment. A leader also has to motivate potential partners to join | Meg Whitman |
| Great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism and courage to act. | Nitin Nohria |
| Enduring setbacks while maintaining the ability to show others the way to go forward is a true test of leadership. | Nitin Nohria |
| Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. | H. Norman Schwarzkopf (1934-) |
| Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate toward some goal which they come to find desirable. | Ordway Tead |
| Leadership is the ability to do, not the ability to state | Paul von Ringelheim |
| Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. | Peter F. Drucker (1909-) |
| A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done. | Ralph Nader (1934-) |
| A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term. | Robert Reich (1946-) |
| True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders. | Robert Townsend (1957-) |
| A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs | Robert Townsend (1957-) |
| Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist. | Rosabeth Moss Kanter |
| Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter. | Rosabeth Moss Kanter |
| You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too. | Sam Rayburn (1882-1961) |
| Leadership must be established from the top down. | Sam Rayburn (1882-1961) |
| Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish. | Sam Walton (1918-1992) |
| Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them -- this is of the essence of leadership. | Theodore H. White (1915-1986) |
| The very essence of leadership is [that] you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. | Theodore Hesburgh (1917-) |
| The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. | Theodore Hesburgh (1917-) |
| Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. | Thomas J. Watson, Sr. (1874-1956) |
| Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve. | Tom Landry (1924-2000) |
| Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control. | Tom Landry (1924-2000) |
| The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity | Tom Peters |
| Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal. | Vince Lombardi (1913-1970) |
| Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. | Warren G. Bennis |
| It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute. | William Pollard |
| If you think you're leading and no one is following you, then you're only taking a walk. | Afghan Proverb |
| As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. | Bill Gates (1955-) |
| A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless. | Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) |
| National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services | Corazon Aquino (1933-) |
| In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership. | Donald Rumsfeld (1932-) |
| The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. | Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) |
| Who is the bravest hero? He who turns his enemy into a friend | Hebrew Proverb |
| In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited. | Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) |
| The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true | Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) |
| I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people | Indira Gandhi (1917-1984) |
| Getting results through people is a skill that cannot be learned in the classroom | Jean Paul Getty (1892-1976) |
| Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome. | John Kotter |
| A leader needs enough understanding to fashion an intelligent strategy. | John Kotter |
| Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage. | John W. Gardner (1912-2002) |
| It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test. | Lou Holtz (1937-) |
| All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. | Molière (1622-1673) |
| As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each andevery person in a discussion had to say before venturing my ownopinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a con-sensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember theaxiom: a leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, lettingthe most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, notrealizing that all along they are being directed from behind. | Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) |
| Reason and calm judgment: the qualities especially belonging to a leader. | Publius Cornelius Tacitus (55-117) |
| What you cannot enforce, do not command. | Sophocles (496 f.Kr.-406 f.Kr.) |
| The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on. | Walter J. Lippmann (1889-1974) |
| Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. | Warren G. Bennis |
| Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. | Warren G. Bennis |
| If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. | John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) |
| Whatever you are, be a good one. | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| If you cannot serve, you cannot rule | Bulgarian Proverb |
| If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. | Jack Welch |
| Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average. | Jim Rohn |
| Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so. | J. Michael Straczynski (1954-) |
| Leadership has been defined as the ability to hide your panic from others | Vince Lombardi (1913-1970) |
| Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal. | Vince Lombardi (1913-1970) |
| To lead the people, walk behind them. | Lao-Tse (604 f.Kr.-531 f.Kr.) |
| I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together. | George W. Bush (1946-) |
| We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership. | John Kotter |
| Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. | Thomas J. Watson, Sr. (1874-1956) |
| To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going. | Joe Namath (1943-) |
| One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. | Arnold H. Glasgow |
| Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate toward some goal which they come to find desirable. | Ordway Tead |
| A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there. | David R. Gergen |
| Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. | H. Norman Schwarzkopf (1934-) |
| Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve. | Tom Landry (1924-2000) |
| The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category. | Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) |
| The led must not be compelled, they must be able to choose their own leader | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it | Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) |
| The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap. | Ayn Rand (1905-1982) |
| I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit. (Matthew 15:14) | Bible |
| The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders. | Bill Hybels |
| Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had. | Billy Bragg (1957-) |
| Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highlyof them, when instead they should try to get their people tothink more highly of themselves.It’s wonderful when the people believe in their leader.It’s more wonderful when the leader believes in their people!You can’t hold a man down withoutstaying down with him.— Booker T. Washington | Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) |
| The true leader is always led | Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) |
| Leaders are Readers | Charles Jones (1957-) |
| Nigera is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be. | Chinua Achebe (1930-) |
| Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant. | Colin Powell (1937-) |
| A Leader is someone who can do everything him(her)self, but let's other people help him(her). | Don Rittner |
| Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership. | Donald Rumsfeld (1932-) |
| Presidential leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective. | Donald Rumsfeld (1932-) |
| You do not lead by hitting people over the head-that's assault, not leadership. | Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) |
| Leadership is a word and a concept that has been more argued than almost any other I know. I am not one of the desk-pounding types that likes to stick out his jaw and look like he is bossing the show. I would far rather get behind and, recognizing the frailties and the requirements of human nature, would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone. | Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) |
| The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others. | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership. | Gary Wills |
| Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. | General George S. Patton (1885-1945) |
| I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together. | George W. Bush (1946-) |
| Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. | Harry S Truman (1884-1972) |
| A leader has to lead, or otherwise he has no business in politics. | Harry S Truman (1884-1972) |
| When a leader is in the Democratic party he's a boss; when he's in the Republican party he's a leader | Harry S Truman (1884-1972) |
| I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it | Harry S Truman (1884-1972) |
| Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision. | Henry Kissinger (1923-) |
| The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. | Henry Kissinger (1923-) |
| Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together. | Jesse Jackson (1941-) |
| The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly. | Jim Rohn |
| Competence goes beyond words. It's the leader's ability to say it, plan it, and do it in such a way that others know that you know how - and know that they want to follow you. | John C. Maxwell |
| Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| Leadership development is self-development. | John G Agno |
| Leadership is applicable to all facets of life: a competency that you can learn to expand your perspective, set the context of a goal, understand the dynamics of human behavior and take the initiative to get to where you want to be. | John G Agno |
| A leader needs enough understanding to fashion an intelligent strategy. | John Kotter |
| With the furious pace of change in business today, difficulty to manage relationships sabotages more business than anything else - it is not a question of strategy that gets us into trouble, it's a question of emotions. | John Kotter |
| Fail to honor people,they fail to honor you; but of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aims fulfilled, they will all say, 'We did this ourselves.' | Lao Tzu |
| The leader shows that style is no substitute for substance, that creating an impression is more potent than acting from one's center. | Lao Tzu |
| When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally. | Lao Tzu |
| Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world. | Lao Tzu |
| The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, we did it ourselves. | Lao Tzu |
| I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership. | Lee Iacocca (1924-) |
| A leader is the wave pushed ahead by the ship. | Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
| A true leader must have enough backbone to stand alone - even when the crowd wants to take the easy road home. A true leader cannot be dependent on companionship for his or her security, but must learn to trust in God alone. | Leslie Ludy |
| If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you. | Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) |
| The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| The Bible tells me that no greater love has a man than to lay down his life for his friends. John Kerry's fellow crewmates -- the men I am honored to share the stage with -- are living testimony to his leadership, his courage under fire, and his willingness to risk his life for his fellow Americans. There is no greater act of patriotism than that. | Max Cleland (1942-) |
| A leader is a dealer in hope. | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Leadership is the ability to do, not the ability to state | Paul von Ringelheim |
| The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'. They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but 'we' gets the credit.... This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done. | Peter F. Drucker (1909-) |
| Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically. | Philip Crosby |
| When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| When I lend I am a friend, when I ask I am a foe. | Proverb |
| Leadership without support is like trying to make bricks without enough straw. True leaders reinforce their ideas and plans with strategic partnerships, alliances and supportiveaudiences. | Reed Markham, PhD (1957-) |
| Strategic communication is at the core of effective leadership. Through a leader's use of verbal and written symbols employees are motivated or deflated, informed or confused, productive or apathetic. A leader's ability to carve off the verbal fatand get to the meat of an issue, idea or plan will find success at every turn. | Reed Markham, PhD (1957-) |
| The communication style of leaders helps us distinguish great leaders from the wannabes. When facing a problem the great leader says, "Let's find out," while the wannabe says that "nobody knows." Great leaders communicate commitment while wannabe leaders make promises. Great leaders have the capacity to listen while wannabes can't wait for their turn to talk. Great leaders say "there is a better way to do this, while wannabes say "this is the way we have always done things around here." Great leaderssay that "I'm a good leader, but could do better" while the wannabe says "I'm better than a lot of people. Great leaders take accountability for their mistakes while the wannabe points fingers and says "it's your fault." | Reed Markham, PhD (1957-) |
| The communication style of leaders helps us distinguish great leaders from the wannabes. When facing a problem the great leader says, "Let's find out," while the wannabe says that "nobody knows." Great leaders communicate commitment while wannabe leaders make promises. Great leaders have the capacity to listen while wannabes can't wait for their turn to talk. Great leaders say "there is a better way to do this, while wannabes say "this is the way we have always done things around here." Great leaders | Reed Markham, PhD (1957-) |
| Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity. | Reed Markham, PhD (1957-) |
| Most people do not receive nearly enough appreciation. How can this be when appreciation is free, easy, and readily available? All you have to do is speak. Go give some away now. | Rhoberta Shaler, PhD (1945-) |
| Popularity is not leadership. | Richard Marcinko (1940-) |
| Leadership is a noble calling. In addtion to meeting well-defined strategic objectives, leaders must also help their organizations make meaningful contributions to social issues, economic growth, and political stability. That's why effective organizational leadership plays a vital role in shaping our world. | Robert L. Joss |
| Most people think of leadership as a position and therefore don't see themselves as leaders. | Stephen R. Covey |
| Manipulators rarely advise you to seek new and diverse information or to ‘learn and research for yourself,’ it tends to be safer for exploitative and irresponsible leaders to keep their citizens in the dark; in their view less independent thought is better. Independent thought leads to an inquiring mind, a mindset that eventually leads to the questioning of authority figures, and that is the one thing that inadequate leaders do not want. When a leader discourages questioning of his/her leadership style, actions, and motivations, that is a sign that they have something to hide, that they may not be worthy of the public’s trust. A responsive leader welcomes and encourages questions from the citizens that have entrusted them with their safety, economic stability, and their confidence that a certain level of civility in society will be constant. Responsive leaders would be appalled, disappointed and disgusted if the public did not question such factors. | Teresa Stover (1980-) |
| Responsive leaders prefer knowledge and information to be spread as widely as possible among the population, because an informed public is necessary to govern effectively, independent thought produces original ideas and is the key factor by which we progress as a society. When independent thought is stifled society is and will remain stagnant until it is free to flourish once again. | Teresa Stover (1980-) |
| People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives. | Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) |
| Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control. | Tom Landry (1924-2000) |
| Any leader who doesn't support the heart of evolving humanity is not a leader worthy of being followed. | Vanna Bonta |
| Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile. | Vince Lombardi (1913-1970) |
| The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert. | Vince Lombardi (1913-1970) |
| Of all the things I have done, the most vital is coordinating the talents of those who work for us and pointing them towards a certain goal. | Walt Disney (1901-1966) |
| What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not. Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination. | Warren G. Bennis |