Leader Quotes - Page 13

• A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority.

  Gary Hamel

  Done, Able, Natural

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• Leaders goal: Understand the power of serving a leader further down the road than you because leadership is contagious.

  Brian Houston

  Goal, Contagious, Down The Road

  Twitter post from Jun 15, 2015

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• A leader without a vision is just a letter without a stamp; it can never reach his destination.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Vision, Letters, Destination

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• The role of the leader is to foster mutual respect and build a complementary team where each strength is made productive and each weakness irrelevant.

  Stephen Covey

  Team, Weakness, Roles

  Stephen R. Covey (1991). “Principle-centered leadership”, Free Press

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• A true leader helps people focus on their potential, not on their limitations.

  Alan Loy McGinnis

  People, Focus, Helping

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• To be a leader is to communicate constantly, skillfully, intentionally, and strategically

  Albert Mohler

  Communicate

  Albert Mohler (2012). “The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters”, p.65, Baker Books

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• As a leader, people push you. They really want to keep pushing you until you get aggressive. Then they say, "Oh, see, it doesn't work."

  Sakyong Mipham

  People, Want, Pushing

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers he gives, but by the questions he asks.

  Simon Sinek

  Giving, Quality, Answers

  "Simon Sinek: Ask Questions" by Simon Sinek, www.askmen.com. April 27, 2010.

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• Preparedness and punctuality are two of the most important qualities of a leader.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Two, Important, Quality

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• People trust those leaders who show real results of their work, rather than those who just talk about the results.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Real, People, Results

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Trust cannot be bought or commanded, inherited or enforced. To maintain it, leaders must continually earn it.

  Max De Pree

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• Leaders who keep promises and followers who respond in kind create an opportunity generate enormous energy around their commitment to serve others.

  Max De Pree

  Commitment, Opportunity, Promise

  Max De Pree (1997). “Leading Without Power: Finding Hope in Serving Community”, Jossey-Bass

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• Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Emotional, Together, Glue

  Warren G. Bennis, Burt Nanus (1985). “Leaders: The Strategies for Taking Charge”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Trust grows when people see leaders translate their personal integrity into organizational fidelity. At the heart of fidelity lies truth-telling and promise-keeping.

  Max De Pree

  Lying, Integrity, Heart

  Max De Pree (1997). “Leading Without Power: Finding Hope in Serving Community”, Jossey-Bass

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• Our problem as leaders is we do everything we know to do. That's not enough. We need to do everything God wants us to do.

  Richard Blackaby

  Needs, Want, Problem

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• Fortunately or unfortunately, the one predictable thing in any organization is the crisis. That always comes. That's when you do depend on the leader: The job of the leader is to build an organization that is battle-ready, that has high morale, that knows how to behave, that trusts itself, and where people trust one another.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, Organization, People

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• Leaders deal in hope.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Deals

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• The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why - Warren Bennis, Leadership Guru
  It is not so much that man is a herd animal, said Freud, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief

  Ernest Becker

  Animal, Men, He Man

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• Independent India's leaders will neither use a foreign language nor rule from a remote place.

  Vallabhbhai Patel

  Independent, India, Use

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• There is no movement without the first follower. See, we are told that we all need to be leaders but that would be ineffective. The best way to make a movement, if you really care, is to courageously follow and show others how to follow.

  Derek Sivers

  Would Be, Needs, Followers

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• Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.

  Thomas More

  Power, Government, Law

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• The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow.

  Colin Powell

  Class, Giving, Forever

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• World don't need chiefs. We need engaged, talented leaders.

  Luiz Bolognesi

  Needs, World, Chiefs

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Be decisive and persevere. You have to recognize that, at the end of the day, no one really cares if you make another movie. That decision falls on you. You're the leader of your own destiny and the one person who can't walk away.

  Ruba Nadda

  Fall, Destiny, Decision

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It doesn't happen often, it's what you dream and hope for. We are happy, but we want to make sure these changes have teeth. What we want to get across most is that this is a real opportunity for the military. They can step up and be a leader on misogyny and gender issues.

  Amy Ziering

  Dream, Military, Real

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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