Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
It's true, we are a highly professional force and we can produce highly lethal fighting forces, but I defy you to find more dedicated humanitarians or better friends when the chips are down.
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
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.
Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you are gravelled for matter there is always the moral to fall back upon. Comparisons too may be drawn, leading cases cited, types and antetypes analysed and anecdotes introduced. Except for Archimedes mathematics is singularly naked of anecdotes.
Once we had become locked in on a schedule, he (Coach Denny Green) often created a disruption (artificial adversity) to that schedule just to see how guys would respond.
Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.
Leaders grasp nettles.
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
The only real training for leadership is leadership.
The only thing of real importance that leaders do is to create and manage culture. If you do not manage culture, it manages you, and you may not even be aware of the extent to which this is happening.
Live to learn and you will really learn to live.
We want women leaders today as never before. Leaders who are not afraid to be called names and who are willing to go out and fight. I think women can save civilization. Women are persons.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally, and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures
Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.
The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leader and followers.
Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.
Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.
Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.
Once it gets to a point where it becomes a matter of life and death to occupy a position of leadership or not, with an eye on future opportunities, therein lies the danger.
There is no contest between the company that buys the grudging compliance of its work force and the company that enjoys the enterprising participation of its employees
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