Top 76 Leadership Strategy Quotes
#1. The core leadership strategy is simple: be a model.
Peter M. Senge
#2. The best way to predict future is to create it. Abraham Lincoln
Gary Chapman
#3. Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can't have both, opt for character.
Norman Schwarzkopf
#4. Have a clear plan or strategy to translate your success philosophy into desired results. Adopt an effective work ethic, with a laser-focus and requisite execution strategies to produce results.
Archibald Marwizi
#5. Confronted by menace or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, and drefine it.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#6. Leaders need to correct for cognitive biases the way a sharpshooter corrects for wind velocity or a yachtsman corrects for the tide.
Paul Gibbons
#7. A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.
Max McKeown
#8. Without strong visionary leadership, no strategy will be executed effectively.
Robert S. Kaplan
#9. Weak leadership can wreck the soundest strategy
Sun Tzu
#10. Dream without fear, love without limits, and let your life sing its song.
Dilip Bathija
#11. When a kingdom rests on it, I always expect difficulty. Then, if there is none, no blame. But if there is, one is prepared.
Geraldine Brooks
#12. Great Leadership sometimes requires taking a step backward in order to take a leap forward.
Todd Stocker
#13. Creating change-agile businesses will eliminate the need for what we today call change management.
Paul Gibbons
#14. The smart strategist allows strategy to be shaped by events. Good reactions can make great strategy. Strategy involves competition of goals, and the risk is the difference between those goals and the ability of the organization to achieve them. So part of the risk is created by the strategy.
Max McKeown
#15. The main thing we should be focused on is the strategy to destroy ISIS. And I laid out a plan that the Reagan Library before the tragedy of Paris, and before San Bernardino to do just that. It requires leadership, it's not filing an amendment and call it a success.
Jeb Bush
#16. Doing nothing requires effort. Over time, that effort is greater than the effort necessary to improve, or move somewhere better. The trick is to redirect energy.
Max McKeown
#17. If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be difficult to master strategy.
Miyamoto Musashi
#18. Morality in the long run aligned with strategy.
Ronald Reagan
#19. Pessimism is a losing strategy. Leadership demands both confidence and optimism in abundance.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
#20. His level of experience is nearly transcendent.
Davis Miller
#22. I believe that he will prosper most whose mode of acting best adapts itself to the character of the times; and conversely that he will be unprosperous, with whose mode of acting the times do not accord.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#24. People who have nothing much in mind for next week speak instead about the next century or millennium.
George F. Will
#25. Strategy is something that emerges from reality, while tactics might be chosen.
George Friedman
#26. You need a strategy to assume leadership, but only the character can sustain leaders as who they really are.
Pearl Zhu
#27. Strategic coherence is more important than strategic perfection.
Paul Gibbons
#28. Your leadership development strategy is perfectly designed to produce the caliber of leader you currently have.
Andy Stanley
#29. What do you want to achieve or avoid? The answers to this question are objectives. How will you go about achieving your desire results? The answer to this you can call strategy.
William E. Rothschild
#30. It is time to euthanize change management.
Paul Gibbons
#31. Without passion, nobody can truly commit to anything and without optimism, positive outcomes become scarce.
Miguel Reynolds Brandao
#32. Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
Norman Schwarzkopf
#33. Leaders need to sacrifice "power-over" to get "power-to".
Paul Gibbons
#34. The author points out that novices to total war, and this Hitler and the British press have in common, overreact to daily events and lose sight of overall strategy.
William Manchester
#35. A third path that a business can follow - an offshoot of our two main strategies - is pursuing a highly targeted market and focusing its resources on serving that tight segment, whether through cost leadership or differentiation. This is the focus strategy.
Anonymous
#36. Never accept the role of a Gladiator if you do not have the spirit of a Warrior.
A.K. Hasan
#37. Politics was at once clinical and human, driven by principles and passions that he (the leader) had to master and harness for the good of the whole.
Jon Meacham
#38. In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.
Wendy Kopp
#39. Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means.
Max McKeown
#40. The real heart of strategy is the strategist.
Max McKeown
#44. The history of the failure of war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.
Douglas MacArthur
#45. Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.
Seth Godin
#46. The men were always wary of an officer who took form more seriously than function.
David Halberstam
#47. His was a profession in which a good leader constantly had to adapt to new weapons, whether he liked them or not,
David Halberstam
#48. The notion of "business as usual" is a harmful myth.
Paul Gibbons
#49. Hope without a strategy doesn't generate leadership. Leadership comes when your hope and your optimism are matched with a concrete vision of the future and a way to get there. People won't follow you if they don't believe you can get to where you say you're going.
Seth
#50. Jackson lead as he lived, sometimes with his heart, sometimes with his mind, sometimes with both.
Jon Meacham
#51. The importance of command leadership. Clear objective and strategy and loyalty to those reporting to you.
Peter King
#52. Transmit your vision emotionally by gaining credibility, demonstrating passion, establishing relationships and communicating a felt need. Transmit it logically by confronting reality, formulating strategy, accepting responsibility, celebrating victory and learning from defeat.
John C. Maxwell
#53. The more beautiful the vision, the more complicated the execution.
Andrew Zolli
#54. Success in past U.S. conflicts has not been strictly the result of military leadership but rather the judgment of the president in choosing generals and setting broad strategy.
Robert Dallek
#55. If [President Obama] does not go on the offensive against ISIS ... they are coming here. This is just not about Baghdad, this is just not about Syria, this is about our homeland. And if we get attacked because he has no strategy to protect us, then he will have committed a blunder for the ages.
Lindsey Graham
#56. Sometimes, as in a game of chess, we must strategically regress so that we might progress toward our ultimate objective.
Crystal Woods
#57. The Internet is disrupting every media industry ... people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to book selling, the future is happening to book selling.
Jeff Bezos
#58. I do have the strength. Leadership, leadership is not about attacking people and disparaging people. Leadership is about creating a serious strategy to deal with the threat of our time.
Jeb Bush
#59. ReThink culture, because it is the foundation of all strategic success.
Tony Dovale
#60. A president must know what it is he does not know, and he should remain calm in pursuit of it, but there is no obligation to be honest about it.
George Friedman
#61. With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are mutually beneficial. Each victory is not just for today but for tomorrow.
Max McKeown
#62. The major purpose of defining and understanding yourself is to be able to come up with an objective strategy to map your success.
Archibald Marwizi
#63. Strategy has no value if your culture and leadership mindset are wrong
Tony Dovale
#64. Strategy was first used in Athens (508 BC) to describe the art of leadership used by the ten generals on the war council. Some argue for the more creative, human side, while others argue for the more analytic side of strategy.
Max McKeown
#65. Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around the world. Leaders shouldn't try to make every decision.
Bill Gates
#66. (John F.) Kennedy was an elitist and not a populist. He was enthralled by a certain British aristocratic view of politics in which an enlightened ruling class makes reasoned, rational decisions that are in the interest of the more emotional and easily manipulated masses.
Scott Farris
#67. Many of the cataclysmic leadership failures were failures of rationality. The pendulum of leadership development needs to swing back toward the rational: strategy, creativity, foresight, decision-making, and analytics.
Paul Gibbons
#68. Think crazily, even if others laugh at you. Act bravely, even if you are all alone.
Dilip Bathija
#69. Managers' responsibility is to ensure that people deliver the expected results, which are the company's strategy. The company's strategy, in turn, determines its competitive advantage. So, if a manager does a poor job of motivating employees' productivity, the enterprise is a weak competitor.
Anna Stevens
#70. Yesterday's decision-making strategies are ill-equipped to deal with petabyte information flows.
Paul Gibbons
#71. What does sincerity mean if it is chosen as deliberate strategy?
Rick Perlstein
#72. The author says one of the sources of resilience is the ability to measure and perceive early warning signs so as to adapt.
Andrew Zolli
#73. Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.
Frank Herbert
#74. Secretary of the treasury Albert Gallatin is accused of treason by war enthusiasts merely for suggesting budget adjustments to pay for war measures.
Donald R. Hickey
#75. Positioning yourself and effective branding should not be left to sports and movie stars. Your need a personal coach, manager or mentor otherwise your expertise, skills or talent will not go far. You might have what it takes but sometimes you lack strategy and some finer elements.
Archibald Marwizi
#76. A bridge-like CIO has the mind to think via the multidimensional lens, the gut to innovate fearlessly; the strategy to lead wisely and the skill to move progressively.
Pearl Zhu
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