Definition Of Leadership Quotes - Page 2

• The leader works in the open and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Leadership, Boss, Outstanding Leaders

  Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

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• I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Running, Thinking

  Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Managing People is Like Herding Cats”, Executive Excellence Pub

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• 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.

  Laozi

  Leadership, People, Good Man

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• You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.

  Grace Hopper

  Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

  "The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper". The OCLC Newsletter, No. 167, www.cs.yale.edu. March/April 1987.

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• A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.

  Witter Bynner

  Leadership, People, Boss

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• Influence is the key word in any definition of leadership.

  Aubrey Malphurs

  Leadership, Christian, Keys

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• A person's own definition of leadership defines the glittering crown of his leadership.

  Anuj

  Crowns, Definitions, Persons

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• The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Personality, Future Leaders

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.371, Routledge

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• Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

  Harold Geneen

  Leadership, Taught, Born Leaders

  "Managing". Book by Harold Geneen, 1984.

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• Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success

  Stephen Covey

  Leadership, Climbing Up, Top Management

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.120, Mango Media Inc.

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• The definition of leadership is that you have to find great people and ask them to do extraordinary things. I've been doing that my whole life.

  Kevin O'Leary

  People, Definitions, Whole Life

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I thought Donald Trump approach on Brexit was a fascinating window into how he thinks.
  His basic point was that [David] Cameron should resign because he didn't read the public mood on the issue right. And that Boris Johnson should be the next prime minister because he did. That's a very different definition of leadership than many politicians have. Or at least say they have.

  Christopher Michael Cillizza

  Thinking, Issues, Different

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• If you think that running your economy into the ground and having to send troops in in order to prop up your only ally is leadership, then we've got a different definition of leadership.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Thinking, Order

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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