Leader Quotes - Page 30

• A hallmark of high performance leaders is the ability to influence others through all levels and types of communication, from simple interactions to difficult conversations and more complex conflicts, in order to achieve greater team and organizational alignment. High performing leaders are able to unite diverse team members by building common goals and even shared emotions by engaging in powerful and effective dialogue.

  George Kohlrieser

  Powerful, Team, Communication

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• I tried to be the leader ... that was my aim. But it is important to know how to win and how to lose.

  Vitali Klitschko

  Winning, Important, Aim

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• The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. The public does not fully understand the world into which it is going. Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision. Those leaders who do not are ultimately judged failures, even though they may be popular at the moment.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  People, Vision, Doe

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• Leaders are people who do the right thing: managers are people who do things right. Both roles are crucial, but they differ profoundly. I often observe people in top positions doing wrong things well.

  Warren G. Bennis

  People, Roles, Wells

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.198, John Wiley & Sons

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• Lead by listening - to be a good leader you have to be a great listener.

  Richard Branson

  Listening, Good Listener, Listeners

  FaceBook post by Richard Branson from Jun 19, 2012

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• A good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little.

  Pope John Paul II

  Littles, Good Leader, Deals

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• Good leaders are very curious, and they spend a lot of time trying to learn things.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Trying, Curious, Good Leader

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• If you want real, significant, sustainable change, you need talented, committed local line leaders. If the line manager is not innovating, then innovation is not going to occur.

  Peter Senge

  Real, Innovation, Needs

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• Good leaders are scarce; so I'm following myself.

  Dale Carnegie

  Good Leader, Following, Scarce

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• A good leader does not tell people to stand behind him. That position does not give anybody power but the leader. Today's politician isn't going to be the first marching to war, so why put that guy in front? Instead, a good leader tells people to stand beside him. That creates an invincible wall of people, and that's a force where everybody stands as a true equal.

  Suzy Kassem

  Wall, War, People

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.

  John C. Maxwell

  People, Wages, May

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• If you are a leader, the true measure of your success is not getting people to work. It's not getting people to work hard. It is getting people to work hard together. That takes commitment.

  John C. Maxwell

  Hard Work, Commitment, People

  John C. Maxwell (2014). “Good Leaders Ask Great Questions: Your Foundation for Successful Leadership”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• Anyone can steer the ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course. Leaders who are good navigators are capable of taking their people just about anywhere.

  John C. Maxwell

  People, Ships, Courses

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You”, p.45, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Most people don't like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.

  John C. Maxwell

  People, Action, Making Changes

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• To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

  John C. Maxwell

  Essentials, Firsts, Easy

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership Workbook: Revised and Updated”, p.142, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.

  Zig Ziglar

  Attitude, Next Day, People

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• The superior leader keeps informed about everything but interferes hardly at all.

  Laozi

  Interfere, Superiors

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• The effectiveness of an inspired bishop, adviser, or teacher has very little to do with the outward trappings of power or an abundance of this world's goods. The leaders who have the most influence are usually those who set hearts afire with devotion to the truth, who make obedience to duty seem the essence of manhood, who transform some ordinary routine occurrence so that it becomes a vista where we see the person we aspire to be.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Teacher, Heart, Essence

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• If only religious leaders could be trusted, then maybe there wouldn't be so many problems. They have perverted any truth that the Bible may have.

  Ryan Hofmeister

  Religious, May, Problem

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• Our duties naturally emerge form such fundamental relations as our families, neighborhoods, workplaces, our state or nation. Make it your regular habit to consider your roles-parent, child, neighbor, citizen, leader-and the natural duties that arise from them. Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do.

  Epictetus

  Children, Parent, Roles

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• Perhaps the central task of the leader of leaders thus becomes the development of other leaders.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Tasks, Development

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• As leaders, we're giving out grades in every encounter we have with people. We can choose to give out grades as an expectation to live up to, and then we can reassess them according to performance. Or we can offer grades as a possibility to live into. The second approach is much more powerful.

  Benjamin Zander

  Powerful, People, Giving

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• The city of Morrow needs good leadership today and in the future years. I enjoy reading and learning from established leaders. Reading quotes is a great way to learn as they contain rich nuggets of knowledge.

  Larry Ferguson

  Reading, Today, Rich

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• Before Bin Laden did everything but advertise. Yet he had to blow up the Twin Towers just to get the attention of anyone outside the intelligence community. So what did we do? We invaded the wrong country, killed the wrong madman, and too often used the wrong interrogation techniques on the wrong people-all because our leaders lost contact with the truth.

  Richard North Patterson

  Country, Blow, Interrogation Techniques

  Richard North Patterson (2012). “The Devil's Light: A Novel”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• The true mark of a leader is the willingness to stick with a bold course of action - an unconventional business strategy, a unique product-development roadmap, a controversial marketing campaign - even as the rest of the world wonders why you're not marching in step with the status quo.

  Bill Taylor

  Unique, Marketing, Sticks

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