Top 43 Leadership Not Management Quotes
#1. Employees who are controlled cannot respond caringly, you need superior knowledge and real leadership, not management. Because of this we specifically developed a selection process for leaders; we don't hire managers.
Horst Schulze
#2. It's not about how smart you are
it's about capturing minds.
Richie Norton
#3. Today's Arab crisis is not one of money, men, morale, land or resources ... The real crisis is rather one of leadership, management and perennial egotism.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#5. Delegation is not a binary thing. There are shades of grey between a dictatorship and an anarchy.
Jurgen Appelo
#6. No great manager or leader ever fell from heaven, its learned not inherited.
Tom Northup
#7. People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.
Peter F. Drucker
#8. Management and leadership are not separate spheres. The two skills work together in the larger realm of communityship.
Henry Mintzberg
#9. If you are not taking the time to set your own goals, chances are pretty high someone else is doing it for you. So don't be surprised someday when you end up someplace you never hoped to be.
Mark W. Boyer
#10. A struggle is fatally injured not so much by the stumbles of its leaders as by their mumbles
Agona Apell
#11. Truth flows from universal law, not personal views.
John Agno
#13. In the words of Max DePree: "Management has a lot to do with answers. But leadership is a function of questions. And the first question for a leader always is: 'Who do we intend to be?' Not 'What are we going to do?' but 'Who do we intend to be?'"
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#14. Leadership is different from management, but not for the reasons most people think.
John P. Kotter
#15. We have good leadership only by chance, not by management.
And we need to change that!
Amit Chatterjee
#16. 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
#17. Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
Peter F. Drucker
#18. Buoyant leadership is not a management technique, it's a leadership principle based on the belief that leading isn't presiding, it's taking people on a journey, and on any hero's journey there will be a setback.
Kevin Allen
#19. Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.
Steve Jobs
#20. Every organisation, not just business, needs 1 core competence: Tactical execution
Tony Dovale
#21. Although science is not easy in complex human systems, we cannot afford to throw our hands in the air and give up. It may take decades, but it is a game worth playing and winning.
Paul Gibbons
#22. Unless people are convinced about what you are asking them to do, they are not going to make it happen.
Ravi Kant
#23. To foster a solution mindset, tell employees that you are not interested in who or what caused the problem. You are only interested in hearing how we plan to go beyond the problem.
Jag Randhawa
#24. At its best, leadership development is not an "event." It's a capacity-building endeavor. It's a process of human growth and development.
Linda Fisher Thornton
#25. Not everyone is born a great leader, but anyone can foster core leadership competencies for themselves and become actionable, effective leaders.
Ravinder Tulsiani
#26. Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should they be. Effective leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do.
Warren G. Bennis
#28. Increasingly, management's role is not to organize work, but to direct passion and purpose.
Greg Satell
#30. Success is not certain until you are obsessed by your goal
Vijay Dhameliya
#31. Innovation can start with wanting what does not yet exist - and finding a solution - or seeing what does not yet exist - and finding an opportunity.
Max McKeown
#32. Change is not always easy when patterns in our lives have existed so long.
Lolly Daskal
#33. Culture is what happens when the managers are not around.
Pearl Zhu
#34. Tomorrow's leaders will not lead dictating from the front, nor pushing from the back. They will lead from the centre - from the heart
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#35. Management's job is to convey leadership's message in a compelling and inspiring way. Not just in meetings, but also by example.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#36. Not only in personal relationships, but also in professional life, if like minded people work together, it is a beauty to witness
Rajasaraswathii
#37. Our system is not fit for purpose. It's inadequate in terms of its scope, it's inadequate in terms of its information technology, leadership, management systems and processes.
John Richard Reid
#38. If all you are doing is spending time with the struggling members of your church and you are not building proactively into your church's culture, and you are being shortsighted and limiting the effectiveness of your ministry.
James MacDonald
#39. Knowing that an asteroid is going to hit the earth is not really useful if you are not planning to launch missiles to knock it out of the sky. You have to work massively overtime on the belief that innovation or massive change is going to happen.' - Tom Martin, former VP of marketing
Heather Simmons
#40. If you are not willing to give a less experienced qualified professional a chance, don't complain you are charged double for a job worth half.
Mark W. Boyer
#41. Those who do not appreciate the value of time are celebrity failures. Success is time management.
Moutasem Algharati
#42. Meet your people where they are. They may not be as good as they can be, but they are as good as they believe they can be. They are waiting for you to lead them.
Susan C. Foster
#43. Leadership is service, not position.
Tim Fargo
