Judith M Bardwick Quotes

#1. With air travel there is no distance, there is only time.

Judith M Bardwick

#2. In the end, leadership is not intellectual or cognitive. Leadership is emotional.

Judith M Bardwick

#3. For workaholics, all the eggs of self-esteem are in the basket of work.

Judith M Bardwick

#4. Leaders must (1) define the business of the business, (2) create a winning strategy, (3) communicate persuasively, (4) behave with integrity, (5) respect others, and (6) act.

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#5. The need for challenge, the need to burst through the constrictions of tasks and situations already seen and mastered, can affect anyone, even those enjoying the greatest gains from success.

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#6. We know that productivity suffers when uncertainty is high. But we've failed to realize the equally destructive effects of too little anxiety ... By protecting people from risk, we destroy their self-esteem. We rob them of the opportunity to become strong, competent people.

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#7. Motivation is highest when the probability of success is 50 percent: We don't get involved if the task is too easy or too hard.

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#8. I am impressed and distressed at how passive hierarchical organizations make people. There's often a lot of overt activity, but it's not going anywhere, it's game-playing. It's play-acting at work.

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#9. Institutions which have too much security ... tend to become bureaucratic. They add layers of people and layers of rules in order to assure the security of not making mistakes.

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#10. Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women.

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#11. Nothing creates more self-respect among employees than being included in the process of making decisions.

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#12. Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money.

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#13. Credibility is lost when there are big discrepancies between what leaders say and what they do ... Increasing credibility requires openness. Hidden agendas will destroy trust.

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#14. In truth, it's usually failure, disappointment, and frustration that motivate people to reexamine that which they've taken for granted. It's rare to find big change without significant bad news ... In that sense, the pain of failure creates the largest opportunities for progress.

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#15. In organizations where nothing much happens regardless of whether you do something exceptional or just show up in the morning, the best people lose heart and motivation is reduced near the lowest common denominator.

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#16. Leaders evoke emotional connections in followers only to the extent that the followers are emotionally needy.

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#17. Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself- your strengths and your limitations -in contrast to depending on affirmation from others.

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