Top 78 Leadership P Quotes
#1. We 'can't' always 'cushion' our views..
'Soften' the stance..
'Straight Talk' involves least effort..
No 'beating about the bush'..
Say it as it is..
Ofcourse, stay ready to be unpopular!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#2. You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.
Andy Hargreaves
#4. Instead I take the lead, Tobias silent at my side, and though he does not touch me, he steadies me.
Veronica Roth
#5. Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity
Reed Markham
#6. Leaders speak truth into people who believe lies about themselves.
Orrin Woodward
#7. Who aspires to remain leader must keep in advance of his column. His fear must not play traitor to his occasions. The instant he falls into line with his followers, a bolder spirit may throw himself at the head of the movement initiated, and in that moment his leadership is gone.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#8. The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.
Ptolemy
#9. Leadership responsibility is multidimensional and cannot be described in one or two words. It is personal, interpersonal, environmental and societal.
Linda Fisher Thornton
#10. We shall all respect the principle of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act oppression to any portion of the people
Alexander Mackenzie
#11. Leaders create an environment in which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.
Elliott Jaques
#13. The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence.
James Fisher
#14. Successful leaders know how to line up support for their initiatives and create the right environment for change and innovation.
Bonnie Marcus
#15. If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Thomas Fuller
#17. Women in leadership cannot cry without raising a storm of commentary.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#18. The recent death of Gene McCarthy reminded me of a lesson I spent a long, long time unlearning, so now I have to re-learn it. It's about political courage and heroes, and when a country is desperate for leadership. There are times when regular politics will not do, and this is one of those times.
Molly Ivins
#19. You won this job because you were the best for the job. You are smart, quick to learn, and can quickly acquire any skill you might be lacking.
Carla Harris
#20. A knowledgeable manager can lend to the success of an organization "almost" as much as a poorly trained manager can damage it.
Mark W. Boyer
#21. At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means.
Gerry Adams
#22. Would you like me to teach you how to trust God? Start with your money.
Johnny Hunt
#23. Influence requires humility. The essence of influence is others. The key word is relationships.
Johnny Hunt
#25. Great leaders don't just know the sweet spots of their people. They tap into and unchain the infinite potential imprisoned within their people...
Assegid Habtewold
#26. You'll attract the employees you need if you can explain why your mission is compelling: not why it's important in general, but why you're doing something important that no one else is going to get done.
Peter Thiel
#27. Is it or is it not a matter of importance that a young man starts out in life with an ability to shut his jaw hard and say "I will," or "I will not," and mean it?
John William Heisman
#28. Time, energy, and focus; these are the resources at your disposal each and every day.
Noel DeJesus
#29. Leadership is a journey. Each one of us has to take our own path, and get there our own way.
David Gergen
#30. Some of the greatest advances happen when people are bold enough to speak their truth and listen to others speak theirs.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#31. The lack of women among the twelve disciples isn't prescriptive or a precedent for exclusion of women any more than the choice of twelve Jewish men excludes Gentile men from leadership.
Sarah Bessey
#32. What are the beliefs that give life, spirit and passion to your dream and which values will guide your decisions and actions for you to be fulfilled by your own success?
Archibald Marwizi
#33. True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.
James C. Collins
#34. The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith.
John Haggai
#35. Digital synchronization occurs when all parts of the choir sing their respective parts in harmony.
Pearl Zhu
#36. Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change.
Andy Hargreaves
#37. Charter laws do something really important. They give educators the freedom and flexibility that they need to attain results. But we also have to invest a lot in the leadership pipeline to take advantage of that freedom and flexibility.
Wendy Kopp
#39. Your friend Plato holds that commonwealths will only be happy when either philosophers rule or rulers philosophize: how remote happiness must appear when philosophers won't even deign to share their thoughts with kings.
Thomas More
#40. If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.
Debasish Mridha
#41. He did not falter, as long as there was a path that led toward his goal.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#42. Preseason football is hard to evaluate. It's never going to be clean for the quarterbacks. You have to overcome the ugly plays and be productive. It's a component of leadership that is necessary. The guys that make it in the league survive that.
Mike McCarthy
#43. Humility is always one play away.
Tim Foley
#44. Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards.
Ayn Rand
#45. Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down.
(CBS 60 Minutes interview, March 6, 1983)
Grace Murray Hopper
#46. To the degree that one relates sensitively, appropriately, and even charmingly, to the people and events faced in business and personal life, success will follow.
Herman L Glaess
#47. Anyone who wants to prevent you from making other people happy is an enemy. If you are stopping yourself from making others happy, you are your own enemy.
Israelmore Ayivor
#48. The knowledge of the Spirit is the true secret of creativity, leadership and happiness. It is spiritual intelligence that makes an ordinary person a genius. When a genius loses his spiritual intelligence, he becomes quite ordinary.
Awdhesh Singh
#49. I have learnt from the politics of my great country, Nigeria that there is nothing wrong with the heads of states, but there is something wrong with the state of the heads.
Ogwo David Emenike
#50. Excellence doesn't come by obeying doctrines. Excellence comes through recognizing the flaws in the prevailing doctrines of the society and throwing them away if necessary in the path of progress.
Abhijit Naskar
#51. A President must call on many persons
some to man the ramparts and to watch the far away, distant posts; others to lead us in science, medicine, education and social progress here at home.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#53. Influence is the key word in any definition of leadership.
Aubrey Malphurs
#54. Great leaders motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition.
John P. Kotter
#55. Even if only one guerilla cub survives the prolonged struggle, I am confident that he will raise the flag of Palestine overJerusalem ... Jerusalem is destined to be the eternal capital of our sovereign, independent Palestinian state under the P.L.O. leadership.
Yasser Arafat
#56. Great leadership does not mean running away from reality. Sometimes the hard truths might just demoralize the company, but at other times sharing difficulties can inspire people to take action that will make the situation better.
John P. Kotter
#57. I'm impatient. Typically people think they know all about change and don't need help. Their approach tends to be more management-oriented than leadership-oriented. It's very frustrating.
John P. Kotter
#58. We know we must address climate change. We may not have sorted out every detail, but we are willing to take a leadership position and embrace open dialogue ... that will get us all to our common goals of protecting our world for future generations,
Alain J. P. Belda
#60. For me, a male role model would be a man who, despite holding a leadership position, has the courage to say that he wants to reschedule a 7 p.m. meeting for 4 p.m. because he'd really like to be able to put his son to bed.
Kristina Schroder
#61. So long as the global economy continues to recover, that remains Obama's No. 1 claim to successful leadership. Nothing else even comes close.
Thomas P.M. Barnett
#62. Difficult missions will bring difficult challenges which may sometimes produce temporary setbacks. The test of a human being is in accepting the failure and going on trying until he or she succeeds. Managing failure is the essence of leadership.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#63. One of the most common ways to overcome resistance to change is to educate people about it beforehand. Communication of ideas helps people see the need for and the logic of a change. The education process can involve one-on-one discussions, presentations to groups, or memos and reports.
John P. Kotter
#64. Leadership produces change. That is its primary function
John P. Kotter
#65. Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.
John P. Kotter
#66. The paradox of change is that the only way to alter the way we think is by doing the very things our habitual thinking keeps us from doing." p. 5
Herminia Ibarra
#67. Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#68. Most US corporations today are over-managed and under-led. They need to develop their capacity to exercise leadership.
John P. Kotter
#69. Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome.
John P. Kotter
#70. Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, is an expert of understatement in his leadership of Linux development community. When eager programmers would ask him, '"What part of Linux should I work on?' his answer would usually be, '"Let me know when you find out' (p.286).
Dan Woods
#71. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. Peter F. Drucker and Joseph A. Maciariello, Management: Revised Edition, 2008, p. 288.
Joseph A. Maciariello
#72. Leadership is different from management, but not for the reasons most people think.
John P. Kotter
#73. We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership.
John P. Kotter
#74. No leadership, no ideas. Not even enough imagination to thump someone in the line-up when the ref wasn't looking.
J.P.R. Williams
#75. For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#76. Leadership defines what the future should look like, aligns people with that vision, and inspires them to make it happen despite the obstacles.
John P. Kotter
#77. I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
E.P. Thompson
#78. In good organizations, leaders are treated with a sense of appreciation and respect by employees; in great organizations, employees are treated with the same esteem by leaders.
Kevin E. Phillips
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