Top 93 A Leadership Team Quotes
#1. One thing we've talked a lot about, even in the first leadership meeting, was, what's the purpose of our leadership team? The framework we came up with is the notion that our purpose is to bring clarity, alignment and intensity.
Satya Nadella
#3. When a leader buys his own excuses, he also, unfortunately, sells them to his team.
Orrin Woodward
#4. I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team.
Steve Ballmer
#5. Competition and rivalry between the members of a group are the antithesis of the cooperation and team play needed in an effective management group. This is why team building is an empty abstraction for a group whose leader controls with power.
Thomas Gordon
#6. Cheerleading is life, you must give it your all, and always strive to be on top. It teaches you so much, from how to be a team player, leadership, dedication, confidence, and many other qualities.
Natasha Richardson
#7. A true leader is one who creates a favourable environment to bring out the energy and ability of his team. A great leader creates more great leaders, and does not reduce the institution to a single person.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#8. Develop your leaders into a competitive advantage. Reconnect your leader-power to success.
Gene Morton
#9. A C.E.O.'s job is leadership, problem solving, and team building. I've done that my whole career.
Bruce Rauner
#10. The art of effective leadership is about navigating the dynamics of growth and success ... holding a vision and leading a team, but arriving at the same time.
Steve Maraboli
#11. The single greatest demotivator of a team is having members who are not carrying their load.
David Cottrell
#13. Leaders can change the tenor of the workplace and create harmony in motion toward a favorable result. So every time you say to your team, "Let's rock and roll," make sure you have already set up the stage to where they can actually perform like rock stars.
Thomas Huynh
#15. Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won't make a company successful.
Robert Kiyosaki
#16. An honorable leader must demonstrate a willingness to reveal his or her 'inner self' to their team. It builds trust and trust is essential. It's also a sign of strength and authenticity, and people are attracted to those who are 'real' and authentic.
Lee Ellis
#17. I was fortunate enough to have baseball to teach me the values relative to success. The sport gifted me with leadership and team building skills that translate in a relatable way in the world.
Willie Wilson
#18. In order to sustain the integrity of the organization, a business must dedicate time and resources to education, leadership development, and personnel development. Don't focus on the product. Focus on the team.
Robert Kiyosaki
#19. Building a cohesive leadership team is the first critical step that an organization must take if it is to have the best chance at success.
Patrick Lencioni
#20. Leaders #1 job is to help their people, teams, leadership, and culture, to be #FutureFit...by supporting People, Planet & Profits, in a Consciously Constructive Revolutionary Workplace... today.
Tony Dovale
#21. On every team, there is a core group that sets the tone for everyone else. If the tone is positive, you have half the battle won. If it is negative, you are beaten before you ever walk on the field.
Chuck Noll
#22. A Culture of clear consistent communication and connection is the foundation of a high performance team that thrives and flourishes.
Tony Dovale
#24. Actually, I don't ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at it and say, 'What? Are there no women in the party to be part of the leadership? Do men want to do it all themselves?' It just won't happen again.
Harriet Harman
#25. On the best teams, different individuals provide occasional leadership, taking charge in areas where they have particular strengths. No one is the permanent leader, because that person would then cease to be a peer and the team interaction would begin to break down.
Tom DeMarco
#26. A leadership team is a small group of people who are collectively responsible for achieving a common objective for their organization.
Patrick Lencioni
#27. If you want to lead a family/team/organization, learn to lead/manage yourself first.
Bradford Winters
#28. Leadership is not about sitting and presiding, it's about a going somewhere. To be buoyant, you must not only ignite passion around a common quest, you must also mobilize your team to take a journey with you toward a common destination, or what I call a "real ambition."
Kevin Allen
#29. You create a team by binding each to each, acting as glue, not as god.
Karen Lord
#30. A philanthropic venture requires all the energy, knowledge and money from its founder that a company requires from the leadership team.
Romesh Wadhwani
#31. Coming together is a beginning, and staying together is progress, but only when teams sweat together do they find success.
John C. Maxwell
#32. When overpowering authority or leadership intervenes in a team, it can affect the team by (1) throwing the team off track, (2) decreasing the motivation of the team, (3) reducing the commitment of the team members, and (4) causing more problems than solutions.
J. Richard Hackman
#33. I realize that as the quarterback, you have to assume some sort of leadership role because you have to talk in the huddle on every play, and you're essentially giving out orders to the team. But in my mind, I have to prove myself on the field before I can start asserting a leadership role.
Andrew Luck
#34. Inside that Colonel, there's a private that needs to be cuddled and held just like the rest of us." Hawkeye
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#36. Organisations are innovating quicker than ever. Your members need to excel from being a team player to a team builder.
Janna Cachola
#37. In a team sport like basketball, every time you help somebody else, you help yourself.
Pete Carril
#38. Apart from an innate grasp of tactical concepts, a great coach must possess the essentials attributes of leadership which mold men into a cohesive, fighting team with an invincible will to victory.
Douglas MacArthur
#39. I believe that leaders and leadership teams working together in a proper design will run the business more effectively than by hierarchical, command-and-control managing. But I can't prove that. And there are no models.
Marvin Bower
#40. The team developer realizes that at times the leadership 'torch' must be passed on to others. This empowerment of others serves a dual purpose; it helps them hone their own team-building skills and it brings a fresh approach, perhaps even a special expertise, to the group's efforts.
Marlene Caroselli
#41. Reliance is the ultimate measure of a team's or organization's culture. It's not 'Would I recommend a friend to work here?' It's 'Would this group of people put their ass on the line for me?' And 'Would I do the same for them?
Bill Jensen
#42. As a leader, it's your job to get everyone to share what they know.
Jane Ripley
#43. You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.
Tom Ridge
#44. Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.
Vince Lombardi
#45. A team leader will have to deal with difficulties that he needs to know about in advance
Sunday Adelaja
#46. A few mistakes don't worry me; what worries me is when you make the mistakes and then forget your role on the team and start to worry about your ego.
Digger Phelps
#47. In all forms of leadership, whether you are a coach, a CEO, or a parent, there are four words that, when said, can bring out the best in your team, your employees, and your family. I BELIEVE IN YOU. Those four words can mean the difference between a fear of failure and the courage to try.
Mike Krzyzewski
#48. Evangelical churches often make extroversion a prerequisite for leadership, sometimes explicitly. "The priest must be ... an extrovert who enthusiastically engages members and newcomers, a team player," reads an ad for a position as associate rector of a 1,400-member parish.
Susan Cain
#49. If there is something a coach might wish to see changed in a player or team, the first place to check and see if it could not be done better is in yourself.
John Kessel
#50. Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
#51. Unfaithfulness of team members is a difficult test that may bring disappointment to a leader.
Sunday Adelaja
#52. Leaders come in two flavors, expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both.
Barbara Corcoran
#54. Life is a game - sometimes serious, sometimes fun - but a game that must be played with true team spirit.
Shelagh Delaney
#55. Leadership is not about your ambition. It is about bringing out the ambitions of your team.
Cheryl A. Bachelder
#56. We now live in a time when PEOPLE and profits must become equally valuable in the corporate leaders Mindset.
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Tony Dovale
#57. Learning to let go, to put the team's will first, is an empowering experience that leads to the most wonderful of all experiences: being a member of a high-performing, gungho, high-five team. Remember, leadership is not all about you.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#58. Leadership is not a voice crying in the wilderness, aloof and apart. It requires an ability to command as well as to inspire, to learn in the process of collaboration and to build a team with a common purpose that can take action and execute the change they envision.
Bob Rae
#59. Over-communicating is the glue that holds a high-performing team together and keeps them focused in the same direction. And, it circles back to clarity. Without good, consistent communication, you don't have clarity.
Lee Ellis
#60. I once said coaching a first-year team was a religious experience. You do a lot of praying - but most of the time the answer is NO.
Bill Fitch
#61. Transforming a team, let alone an entire organisation, from the principles of command and control to those based on servant-leadership, from plans based on prediction to plans based on empirical, evolutionary data requires both patience and tenacity.
Geoff Watts
#62. I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
Gautam Gambhir
#63. The author commented that John F. Kennedy's 1960 presidential campaign team worked like a band of brothers, while Richard Nixon's campaign team worked like a band of brothers in law under the direction of a quarrelsome aunt.
David Pietrusza
#64. Having a team deliver standards and performance is much easier when they want to be there and want to be led by you.
Tony Curl
#65. Leadership isn't what a team says, but what it does.
Orrin Woodward
#66. If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.
T. Boone Pickens
#67. A High Performance team requires people with High Performance Mindsets, with relevant competence, committed and balanced communication, to a meaningful and challenging goal.
Tony Dovale
#68. Our climate leadership team has recommended it go up and I would say there's always going to be upward pressure to raise the carbon tax. Remember, we're already double what the only other province who has a carbon tax is at right now, Quebec - they peg it at about $15 a tonne.
Christy Clark
#69. Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.
Robin S. Sharma
#70. In the end, leadership comes down to consistency and strong, confident action upon which the team can rely - and this doesn't mean imposing a bunch of rules.
Don Yaeger
#71. I understand the NBA and the role I play on my team. I know that I have to play a leadership role and do whatever I have to do to win.
Carmelo Anthony
#72. Imagine going to work every day to do only and exactly what you love!! All the work gets done because of the abundant diversity of your team. Different skills, interests and talents are woven together into a whole that is much greater than the sum of the parts!
Denise Moreland
#73. There is something discordant about a team of speechwriters and political operatives hammering away to create an image of the 'real, inner' candidate. And, to be blunt, there is no necessary connection between a moving life experience and the skills necessary for leadership.
Jeff Greenfield
#74. APM focuses on team management, from building self-organizing teams to developing a servant leadership style. It is both more difficult, and ultimately more rewarding than managing tasks.
Jim Highsmith
#75. A better measure of our success is to look at the people on our team and see how they are working together. Can they rally to solve key problems? If the answer is yes, you are managing well.
Ed Catmull
#76. Partner struck me as an ugly euphemism. Euphemism in the sense that people don't like to talk about sex, so they displace it on to some kind of business model. Since I have a distaste for business, I see no appeal to something that sounds like a financial leadership team.
Barbara Browning
#77. In a team setting, leadership is shared by a community of people, which counters the tendency for pastors to form congregations in their own images.
Adam S. McHugh
#78. Kids on a team are like flowers in a bouquet, there is always one that wants to face a different way than the arranger desires.
John Kessel
#79. Holding your team accountable to do the jobs they're being paid to do is not being mean; it's being a manager, and that's your job.
Liz Weber
#80. My sports were team sports: ice hockey and baseball. The whole team dynamic is similar in business. Leadership is earned - the captain earns that role; it's not because he's the coach's son. These are all things we know, but in today's world, it's not a bad idea to remind ourselves.
James McNerney
#81. To do something really big, let go of your ego, and get ready to be part of a team.
John C. Maxwell
#82. Today's president, CEO or managing director needs to be a disruptive influence with imagination, vision, and courage to lead the organization into new and dangerous territory. The leader must be an entrepreneurial driver who can inspire the team to boldly venture into uncharted lands.
Paul Sloane
#83. Progress has a steep price. Success has an even steeper price. Your team won't be willing to pay it if you aren't willing to pay it.
T Jay Taylor
#84. The leader is one who can organize the experience of the group ... and thus get the full power of the group. The leader makes the team. This is pre-eminently the leadership quality - the ability to organize all the forces there are in an enterprise and make them serve a common purpose.
Mary Parker Follett
#85. It takes a thousand bricks to build a wall, but only one to tear it down.
Markus W. Lunner
#86. On a dog sled team, unless you're the lead dog the view never changes.
Dominique Sutton
#87. Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.
Russel Honore
#88. Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.
Iain Duncan Smith
#89. Your team has entrusted a portion of their life to you, and it's your job to help them grow, personally and professionally.
David Cottrell
#90. Being a team player will help you climb the ladder of success. Furthermore, a successful team player can rise to the level of team leader in the future.
Vishwas Chavan
#91. Just as water will not surpass the capacity of the container, a team's success will not surpass the capacity of the leader.
Orrin Woodward
#92. That which a team does not want to discuss, it most needs to discuss.
Paul Gibbons
#93. Despite their inglorious end, the legions remain to this day, thousands of years after their creation, the most pre-eminent example of how detailed organization, tight discipline, and inspiring leadership can take a group of individuals and turn them into a winning team.
Stephen Dando-Collins
