Frances Hesselbein Quotes

#1. Communication is not saying something; communication is being heard,

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#2. People know that pursuing a mission without achieving results is dispiriting; achieving results without a mission is meaningless.

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#3. When you see a roadblock or challenge as an opportunity, it is amazing how you are already halfway there.

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#4. People want to feel what they do makes a difference.

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#5. Most of us will be remembered, in work and in life, for just a few words or deeds that made a difference to others. The way we choose to say good-bye is likely to be one of the ways we are remembered.

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#6. I try ... to use my own voice in a way that shows caring, respect, appreciation, and patience. Your voice, your language, help determine your culture. And part of how a corporate culture is defined is how the people who work for an organization use language.

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#7. The leader builds dispersed and diverse leadership - distributing leadership to the outermost edges of the circle to unleash the power of shared responsibility.

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#8. No matter what business you're in, everyone in the organisation needs to know why

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#9. Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers cannot compete in a highly competitive world.

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#10. If we are to remain mission focused, as we must be if we are to be relevant in an uncertain age, the abandoning those things that do not further the mission is a leadership imperative.

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#11. It is the quality and the character of the leader that determines the results and performance.

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#12. You should be a living practicing example of what you are preaching.

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#13. Few leaders are born. We learn to be leaders. We learn by working with other people and working through our philosophy.

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#14. The best part of the character and quality of the leader is expressing who you are in the work you do and how you do it.

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#15. It's not hard work that wears you out, but the repression of your true personality, and I've found a way of working that does not demand that.

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#16. Leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do it.

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#17. Key to the societal significance of tomorrow's leaders is the way they embrace the totality of leadership, not just including 'my organization' but reaching beyond the walls as well.

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#18. The leader for today and the future will be focused on how to be - how to develop quality, character, mind-set, values, principles, and courage.

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#19. Organizations exist to make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. And this is the work of effective leaders.

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