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Managers are people who do things right, while leaders are people who do the right thing. - Warren Benniss, Ph.D. "On Becoming a Leader"
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted
with the important matters.
- Albert Einstein
The quality of leadership, more than any other single factor, determines
the success or failure of an organization.
- Fred Fiedler & Martin Chemers Improving Leadership Effectiveness
Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't
cross a chasm in two small steps.
- David Loyd George
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
- Ricardo Sempler Excellence is not an accomplishment. It is a spirit,
a never-ending process.
- Lawrence M. Miller
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last
is to say thank you.
- Max DePree
When what you are doing isn't working, you tend to do more of the same
and with greater intensity.
- Dr. Bill Maynard & Tom Champoux Heart, Soul and Spirit
Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to
survive in the future.
- Peter Drucker
A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: "Leaders don't
inflict pain. They bear pain."
- Max DePree
Ah well! I am their leader, I really ought to follow them!
- Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount.
And the tigers are getting hungry.
- Winston Churchill
A new leader has to be able to change an organisation that is dreamless,
soulless and visionless ... someone's got to make a wake up call.
- Warren Bennis
I used to think that running an organisation 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 Bennis
When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say
it happened naturally.
- Lao Tse
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for
people to get their jobs done
- Peter Drucker
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce
more leaders, not more followers
- Ralph Nader
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity
- George Patton
To lead people, walk beside them ...
As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence.
The next best, the people honor and praise.
The next, the people fear;
and the next, the people hate ...
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves!"
- Lao-tsu
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but
no plans.
- Peter Drucker
Hell, there are no rules here--we're trying to accomplish something.
- Thomas A. Edison
Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to make
elusive dreams come true. -
Lester R. Bittel The Nine Master Keys of Management
Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.
- Adlai Stevenson
Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do
a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication
of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination
not to accept failure.
- Admiral Arleigh A. Burke
Lead and inspire people. Don't try to manage and manipulate people.
Inventories can be managed but people must be lead.
- Ross Perot
We must become the change we want to see.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Drowning in data, yet starved of information
- Ruth Stanat in The Intelligent Organisation
A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while
on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.
- General of the Armies John J. Pershing
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment
to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
- Vincent T. Lombardi
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
- Proverbs 29:18
I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I yet to hear the
first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
- Henry David Thoreau
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly
endless.
- Mother Theresa
An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge,
skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads
to collective organizational success.
- Stephen R. Covey, Principle-centered Leadership
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's
character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or
methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone.
. . . The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The
aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.
- W. Edwards Deming
The very essence of leadership is its purpose. And the purpose of leadership
is to accomplish a task. That is what leadership does--and what it does
is more important than what it is or how it works.
- Colonel Dandridge M. Malone
It is not a question of how well each process works, the question is
how well they all work together.
- Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford-Mason Thinking About Quality
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language
of the visionary and the idealist.
- Eric Hoffer
In war, three quarters turns on personal character and relations; the
balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter.
- Napoleon I
To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions
of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.
- Russell L. Ackoff
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level
of thinking we were at when we created them.
- Albert Einstein
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men
the conviction and will to carry on.
- Walter J. Lippmann
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those
who would be affected by it.
- Marian Anderson
People are more easily led than driven.
- David Harold Fink
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring
sides together.
- Jesse Jackson
What is character but the determination of incident
what is incident but the illustration of character?
- Henery James
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to
get all the credit for doing it.
- Andrew Carnegie
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.
- Max DePree The Art of Leadership
Processes don't do work, people do.
- John Seely Brown
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
- Harold Geneen
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where
they have not been.
- Henry Kissinger
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
- Ray Kroc, Founder of McDonald's
Jingshen is the Mandarin word for spirit and vivacity. It is an important
word for those who would lead, because above all things, spirit and vivacity
set effective organizations apart from those that will decline and die.
- James L. Hayes Memos for Management: Leadership
Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
- Harold Geneen
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
- Thomas Alva Edison
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have
to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
- Alvin Toffler
Remember that it is far better to follow well than to lead indifferently.
- John G. Vance
The only real training for leadership is leadership.
- Anthony Jay
Quality has to be caused, not controlled.
- Philip Crosby Reflections on Quality
Probably my best quality as a coach is that I ask a lot of challenging
questions and let the person come up with the answer.
- Phil Dixon
The future is taking shape now in our own beliefs and in the courage
of our leaders. Ideas and leadership -- not natural or social 'forces'
-- are the prime movers in human affairs.
- George Roche, A World Without Heroes
The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing
with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic
with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward
their own problems.
- S. L. A. Marshall Men Against Fire
And when we think we lead, we are most led.
- Lord Byron
Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate
your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to
employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment
are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon
humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
- Dee W. Hock, Fast Company
... As we, the leaders, deal with tomorrow, our task is not to try to
make perfect plans.
...Our task is to create organizations that are sufficiently flexible
and versatile that they can take our imperfect plans and make them work
in execution. That is the essential character of the learning organization.
- Gordon R. Sullivan & Michael V. Harper
In matters of style, swim with the current;
In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- T. Jefferson
If you think you can do a thing or that you cannot do a thing, in either
case you are right.
- Henry Ford
Think of managing change as an adventure. It tests your skills and abilities.
It brings forth talent that may have been dormant. Change is also a training
ground for leadership. When we think of leaders, we remember times of change,
innovation and conflict. Leadership is often about shaping a new way of
life. To do that, you must advance change, take risks and accept responsibility
for making change happen.
- Charles E. Rice, CEO of Barnett Bank
Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.
- Winston Churchill
Not everything that is faced can be changed.
But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
- James Baldwin
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
- Winston Churchill
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