Ineffective Leader Quotes

#1. Ultimately as a leader, you're evaluated on how you interact with people. If you do it well, you develop a reputation as effective leader. If you don't, you develop a reputation for being a highly ineffective leader.

Douglas Conant

#2. Kim Jong-Un is a dangerous leader, without a doubt. And both Republican and Democrat administrations have been completely ineffective in dealing with him. So we must continue to isolate him. We will need China as part of that strategy.

Carly Fiorina

#3. Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.

Warren G. Bennis

#4. He sensed Death with a depth and clarity of which only small children or great philosophers are capable, philosophers who are themselves almost childlike in the power and simplicity of their thinking.

Vasily Grossman

#5. In the Way of Heaven, there is no partiality of love; it is always on the side of the good man.

Laozi

#6. When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.

Rollo May

#7. A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without; and it is a moral security of innocence; since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it.

Samuel Richardson

#8. No department or locality may, or will be allowed to, interfere in the affairs which should be administered by [the SAR] on its own,

Jiang Zemin

#9. As a leader, parent, or friend - don't let someone's poor attitude and poor performance hinder your commitment to holding them to higher standards. You don't need to make the person 'wrong' for the way they're behaving, simply point out that the behavior is ineffective.

Hal Elrod

#10. Although we intuitively know the world has changed, most leaders reflect a model and leader development process that are sorely out of date. We often demand unrealistic levels of knowledge in leaders and force them into ineffective attempts to micromanage.

Stanley McChrystal

#11. You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.

D. Todd Christofferson

#12. There was such an interesting exchange rate in this woman's mind...whenever she remembered anyone giving her anything, they only gave a very little and kept the lion's share to themselves. But whenever she remembered giving anyone anything she gave a lot, so much it almost ruined her.

Helen Oyeyemi

#13. The bull-fighter has merely demonstrated that he is a butcher with balletic tendencies.

Brigid Brophy

#14. Democrats, if they're smart and they're not brain-dead, are doing two things right now.They're having self-deprecating humor written for them. There was no humor in Cleveland. And they are not making this a Donald Trump.

Mark Shields

#15. A meek fellow ... is a real godsend in any gang.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#16. The best place to defend is in the opposition penalty box.

Jock Stein

#17. There is no movement without the first follower. See, we are told that we all need to be leaders but that would be ineffective. The best way to make a movement, if you really care, is to courageously follow and show others how to follow.

Derek Sivers