Leadership Quotes - Page 23

It's instructive to consider the more spectacular and well-known falls from grace of leaders in the public eye... In the main, the issues behind these falls could be grouped under a lack of competence, a lack of support or loyalty from those they sought to lead, and a lack of failure of integrity. Of all these the last is the most egregious, the most fatal. We so much want our leaders to be unfailingly decent that an obvious or perceived flaw in integrity can be the toxin which kills them off.

In order to be successful at anything you choose to do, you must make a 100 percent commitment to what it is you are trying to do. If you put 50 percent of your ability into it, that is all that you will get out of it. You must discipline your body and your mind to work towards the goals you have set. Once you have made this decision, then the work begins.

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a genius. You don't have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

Good leaders don't tell people what to do, they give teams capability and inspiration.

Leadership: Lions led by donkeys.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.

A great company in the media business needs visionary leaders, not a conglomerate structure headquartered in Columbus Circle that second guesses.

Nothing so undermines organizational change as the failure to think through the losses people face.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist.

If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.

Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem

A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others. By John Maxwell

We need people who influence their peers and who cannot be detoured from their convictions by peers who do not have the courage to have any convictions.

As a leader you should always start with where people are before you try to take them to where you want them to go.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

The best way to lead people into the future is to connect with them deeply in the present.

If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.

Now it's easy for someone to set up a storefront and reach the entire world in very modest ways. So these technologies that we thought would dis-intermediate traditional sellers gave more people the tools to be sellers. It also changed the balance of power between sellers and buyers.

Most of what we know about sales comes from a world of information asymmetry, where for a very long time sellers had more information than buyers. That meant sellers could hoodwink buyers, especially if buyers did not have a lot of choices or a way to talk back.

Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things.