Leadership Quotes - Page 34

• God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "How Obama's favorite theologian shaped his first year in office" by John Blake, www.cnn.com. February 5, 2010.

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• Great leaders motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition.

  John P. Kotter

  Groups, Great Leader, Individual

  John P. Kotter (2012). “Matsushita Leadership”, p.1823, Simon and Schuster

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• Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Learning, Mean, People

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• Progress on problems is the measure of leadership; leaders mobilize people to face problems, and communities make progress on problems because leaders challenge them and help them to do so.

  Ronald A. Heifetz

  People, Community, Challenges

  Ronald A. HEIFETZ, Ronald A Heifetz (2009). “Leadership Without Easy Answers”, p.15, Harvard University Press

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• I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

  Norman Lear

  Responsibility, Motherhood, Thinking

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully - and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world.

  James Forrestal

  Love, Country, Peace

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• Beaten paths are for beaten men.

  Eric Johnston

  Inspirational, Sports, Men

  "Speaker's encyclopedia of stories, quotations, and anecdotes" by Jacob Braude, 1955.

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• Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.

  Warren G. Bennis

  World, Hospitality, Poet

  Warren G. Bennis (1993). “An Invented Life: Reflections on Leadership and Change”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Vision, Hospitality, Hallmark

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (1997). “Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration”, p.40, Basic Books

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• Leaders is the new organisation do not lack motivational tools, but the tools are different from those of traditional corporate bureaucrats. The new rewards are based not on status but on contribution, and they consist not of regular promotion and automatic pay rises, but of excitement about the mission and a share of the glory of success.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Motivation, Different, Tools

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• Leaders who have integrity possess one of the most respected virtues in all of life.

  David Cottrell

  Monday, Morning, Integrity

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• Everything you do matters because your team is watching ... and depending on you to do the right thing.

  David Cottrell

  Monday, Morning, Team

  David Cottrell (2002). “Monday Morning Leadership: 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can't Afford to Miss”, p.49, CornerStone Leadership Inst

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• Guard your integrity as if it's your most precious leadership possession, because that is what it is.

  David Cottrell

  Monday, Morning, Integrity

  David Cottrell (2002). “Monday Morning Leadership: 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can't Afford to Miss”, p.50, CornerStone Leadership Inst

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• The most important thing you do as a leader is to hire the right people.

  David Cottrell

  Monday, Morning, People

  David Cottrell (2002). “Monday Morning Leadership: 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can't Afford to Miss”, p.57, CornerStone Leadership Inst

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• It is difficult to spread the contagion of excitement without having a sense of purpose and direction.

  Daniel Goleman

  Passion, Enthusiasm, Purpose

  Daniel Goleman, Richard E. Boyatzis, Annie McKee (2016). “Primal Leadership, With a New Preface by the Authors: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence”, p.125, Harvard Business Review Press

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• Every successful person has faced, attacked, and conquered adversity somewhere along the way.

  David Cottrell

  Monday, Morning, Adversity

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• The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Reality, Creating, Development

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• Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

  Ross Perot

  Business, Engineering, Self Improvement

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• Results matter! They matter to your credibility.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspiring, Matter, Results

  Stephen M. R. Covey (2008). “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• In large organizations there are discrete functions. I do this; you do that. I swim in my lane; you swim in your lane. That can be very effective for certain processes and in certain stable conditions. But it doesn't work in unstable conditions.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Organization, Swim, Mind

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• I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "Oprah Talks to Daniel Pink". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2008.

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• You can only make so much money in life and only enjoy so many creature comforts. The important thing is to do something meaningful-to leave something behind.

  Roone Arledge

  Sports, Meaningful, Important

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• Don't wait to be a great man; be a great boy!

  Ralph Jordan

  Sports, Boys, Men

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• It's not a case of us against them, it's a matter of melding all people's skills and resources to create a better world for everyone !

  Lyn St. James

  Sports, Skills, People

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• An effective leader is willing to think about what's happening and how to understand what's going on. Facilitating flow and making others more conscious of it, the leader communicates an awareness of process to the group, making them more aware of their energies and options. One important principle is to keep track of who has not spoken. ... It's also important to notice when people do speak out but are not heard. Effective leaders practice patience, reminding themselves to wait and observe, remembering that there's always more going on in a group than we're consciously aware of.

  Diane Dreher

  Thinking, Speaks Out, Practice

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