Leadership Listening Quotes

#1. I believe one of the requirements of good leadership is the ability to listen - really listen - to those in your organization. An effective leader is very good at listening, and it's difficult to listen when you are talking.

John Wooden

#2. The roots of effective leadership lie in simple things, one of which is listening. Listening to someone demonstrates respect; it shows that you value their ideas and are willing to hear them.

John Baldoni

#3. Careful, intelligent listening is a crucial step on the road to organizational success.

Subir Chowdhury

#4. He could follow someone's mind around, and get where it was going before the other fellow knew where it was going.

Robert A. Caro

#5. Connect by listening well and speaking relevantly without being prejudiced or sarcastic. Learn to listen with your eyes as much as you listen with your ears. Generate interest in the person and subject, that way people will become more interested in you.

Archibald Marwizi

#6. Your listening, not your speaking, is your most direct access to leadership effectiveness.

Al Ritter

#7. Remain open-minded, even when you believe yourself to be a king among peasants. You never know what blessings can be gained or crises averted just by listening.

A.J. Darkholme

#8. There's no better way to serve and nourish the magnificence in another person than to simply listen to them openheartedly and without judgment.

Henry Kimsey-House

#9. Dialogue teaches you to listen through your emotions, not to become distracted or distanced from the truth because of them.

Oli Anderson

#10. I fell in love with the topic of leadership. For three decades, that has been a major focus of my hands-on work: listening to and working with leaders, their teams and their organizations.

Henry Cloud

#11. The drum to which we march reveals the conductor to whom we're listening.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#12. In a leadership role in Iraq and in running my own business, what I've learned is if you don't listen, you're going to strike out. You're going to fail miserably. The people you work with have got to know you're engaged and you're listening.

Brad Wenstrup

#13. A powerful leader, like a conductor, need not say a word for his message to be communicated.

Orly Wahba

#14. I started young but at every turn, listening provided a foundation for my leadership. I can say categorically that all the really excellent leaders I have known were, in my view, excellent listeners.

Joe Shuster

#15. Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

George W. Bush

#16. It is only through dialogue, deep listening, and passionate disagreement that we find our way to something larger than a singular and isolated point of view.

Henry Kimsey-House

#17. Take the emotional temperature of those listening to you. Facial expressions, voice inflection and posture give clues to a person's mood and attitude.

John C. Maxwell

#18. Hearing God's voice is indispensable to moving through or around closed doors.

Gary Rohrmayer

#19. Listening is not a displacement for leadership. You have to have leadership.

Angelo Sotira

#20. Listening (the first competence of leadership) is not a skill, it is a discipline. All you have to do is keep your mouth shut.

Peter Drucker

#21. The Tone is the Message.

Kevin T. McCarney

#22. Keep making a difference out there! Don't let the noise around you distract you from listening to the voice within you.

Farshad Asl

#23. Find your own authentic leadership style; your own unique way of listening to, helping and engaging with your front line. Challenge the often formidable psychological distance between basement and boardroom. Your people will thank you, and so will your customers.

Chris Van Gorder

#24. The secret is in listening to our own inner voice.

Holly Elissa Bruno

#25. Listen with your eyes as well as your ears.

Graham Speechley

#26. We must be present enough and receptive enough to "hear" with our whole being beyond just the words that are being spoken.

Henry Kimsey-House

#27. I don't want to over generalize, but I believe that women are typically drawn to leadership styles that focus on consensus building, effective listening and working in teams. That's certainly been my leadership style, and I think it's been very successful.

Margaret Hamburg

#28. As we look ahead into the future, leaders will be those who serve others, actively listen, and daily empower.

Farshad Asl

#29. Listening to the inner voice - trusting the inner voice - is one of the most important lessons of leadership.

Warren G. Bennis

#30. You won't benefit from diverse perspectives if you aren't open to utilizing differences.

Eunice Parisi-Carew

#31. Don't look for leadership just at the top of the tree. Listen to leadership wherever it is expressed.

Phil Dourado

#32. All great leaders find a sense of balance through their levels of reception. For instance, those who support a leader may soften him, those who ignore him may challenge him, and those who oppose him may stroke his ego.

Criss Jami

#33. If a leader goes with their gut, it should be after listening first to people they trust.

Andy Stanley