Quotes About Adaptive Leadership

#1. So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.

John Perry Barlow

#2. Advice is overrated. Before you learn what others know, you need to learn what YOU know.

Harriet Rubin

#3. No matter how fast weapons and technology evolve in the 21st century, one thing remains constant is that war is a human endeavor, a grueling contest between two learning and adaptive forces. Victory, therefore rests on how smart, how tough, and how dedicated our boots on the ground.

Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono

#4. Disequilibrium is often instigated by the will to power, a sleepless drive in the human personality to control others, to force them to do what one wants, or not to do what one opposes.

Ron Suskind

#5. Once in awhile, you do encounter bad acquaintance, mean people, toxic aura. Don't let them rent space in your heart and mind. Don't let anyone make you so upset that you become someone you don't even recognise.

Rita Zahara

#6. He will find people there who, seeing the want, undertake the office of salesmen. In well-ordered states they are commonly those who are the weakest in bodily strength, and therefore of little use for any other purpose;

Plato

#7. Take in every detail of your environment and adapt.

Carlos Wallace

#8. If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private mask.

Frances Conroy

#9. Awful momentum makes carrying through easier than calling off folly.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#10. Congress has a deep, vested interest in its own inefficiency.

Robert A. Caro

#11. The government of the world's most powerful nation is running furiously in place.

Ron Suskind

#12. Islam is in a formative period struggling to consolidate the vast reach won by both inspiration and force at its founding. Two centuries along, the faith of Muhammad hangs like an intricate veil: a religion still searching for institutional wholeness, a set of lessons to live by.

Ron Suskind

#13. The world is created based upon the kind of vision that arises. When the vision of 'this is mine' arises, then one will see 'everything else is not mine' in the world.

Dada Bhagwan

#14. Many ask me whether pranayama ... postpones old age. Why worry about it? Death is certain. Let it come when it comes. Just keep working. The soul has no age. It doesn't die. Only the body decays. And yet, we must never forget the body, since it is the garden we must cherish and cultivate.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#15. Five rules to follow to be a great leader:
1. Be curious.
2. Serve others.
3. Be purpose oriented.
4. Be adaptive.
5. Be positive.

Debasish Mridha

#16. When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man.

Alfred Harmsworth

#17. Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition.

Ronald A. Heifetz

#18. Authenticity is our natural state of being. The authentic self is a state of being where we are centered, creative, adaptive, and inspired.

Henna Inam