Top 53 Quotes About Bad Leadership
#1. Those occupying leadership roles who completely lack integrity are what we call 'Blind shepherds'. They are not really 'bad' leaders, because they are not leaders at all: they are misleaders.
John Adair
#2. Everybody in the world is capable of democratic development. Some people in the world are unlucky enough to get stuck with really bad political leadership and with really bad political institutions.
Condoleezza Rice
#3. We can influence people for bad or good.
Johnny Hunt
#4. Libertarians believe that any government interference is bad. Anyone with a brain knows that climate change needs governmental leadership, and they can smell this is bad news for their philosophy. Their ideology is so strongly held that, remarkably, it's overcoming the facts.
Jeremy Grantham
#5. Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally . Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.
Barack Obama
#7. I have found success is ultimately realized by people who make more right choices ... and recover quickly from their bad choices.
David Cottrell
#8. Bad timekeeping will suck the life out of your bank account.
Colin Myles
#9. The masses who complain about bad leadership must first check their unbiased choices.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#10. If 'pleasing the people' is the only criterion (of a 'big' leader), then going to war or pretending to go to war or simulating outrage and bad mouthing states you can do nothing about, is the playbook for you.
Khaled Ahmed
#11. One thing is undeniably clear. We have all had bad experiences, we have all had tragedies in our lives which help to shape who we are.
J. Loren Norris
#12. Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.
Janos Kadar
#13. Scarcely a general can be found amongst them who admits that he lost a battle by his own bad leadership.
Heinz Linge
#14. A good leader takes care of those in their charge. A bad leader takes charge of those in their care.
Simon Sinek
#15. An individual school can handle a resident idiot from time to time, but an entire school system is only as good as its weakest leader.
Tucker Elliot
#16. Leadership - in both the Service and the administration - often conveyed the message that bad behavior was truly bad only if it made headlines. I called it the Caesar mentality: Do as I say, not as I do, or off with your head.
Gary J. Byrne
#17. People do look to others for some leadership, and it's not bad for them to supply it when they feel that way.
Arthur Miller
#18. I have met so-called leaders who showed fear in a moment when strength was required, and they give leadership a bad name.
Jason Taylor
#19. The best thing you can give as a leader is a reason to trust. People want to trust. They're hungry for it. But they're selective. They'll only give it to a motivator, a communicator, a teacher, a real person. Someone who in good times and bad always does the right thing.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
#20. I don't think one party has a bad vision over the other party. I have no doubts that every Indian and every Indian political leadership would like to see this country get to a much better level. We would all like to see inclusive growth.
Baba Kalyani
#21. Just stamping out anti-science and bad science will eliminate an enormous amount of business waste
Paul Gibbons
#22. I had to make a choice, either take care of my family and become a good son, or be a bad son and start working towards constructing a world of harmony and peace. I chose the later.
Abhijit Naskar
#23. Bad Culture is the contaminated oxygen your staff breath, as they get indoctrinated by your limiting context.
Tony Dovale
#24. Authority to dream is not given, it is taken. Take it. Do not let the judgment of others be the final word. Without a doubt, if there is a one-word, one-step cure for bad peg moments, that word is perseverance. Let that be your final word.
J. Loren Norris
#25. Leadership responsibility: If you own a biz, you're the head of the org. Good or bad, your company will LOOK and ACT like you do.
Dave Ramsey
#26. Two main definitions of a true leader; His presence is noticed and his absence is felt ... !
Israelmore Ayivor
#27. People who appear to be resisting change may simply be the victim of bad habits. Habit, like gravity, never takes a day off.
Paul Gibbons
#28. If we throw judgments out, that is exactly what will return to us. What we give is exactly what we will receive. It doesn't matter if we throw out good or bad. It all comes back. It is a spiritual law.
Sandra M. Michelle
#29. If we're not ready for leadership or don't want to be the leader, then we need to focus on our followership skills that relate to a bad leader or select another leader that we think would do a better job than we would.
Kurt Madden
#30. One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.
Andy Hargreaves
#31. The difference between the 'cost' and 'price' of life's learnings..
'Cost' is calculated over a period of happenings, good, bad ugly..
'Price' is what we pay to 'reduce','bear' or 'feel good about the cost..
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#32. When success is internalized, no situation, no matter how bad, can convince you that you will not be able to attain your goal. You become adamant and refuse to give up.
Archibald Marwizi
#33. I think we've bounced back and really been resilient. Even after a bad period, we take over and we seem like we're on a mission. That comes with leadership and experience and a lot of things. A lot of it is mental toughness and resiliency in the situation you're at, just trusting in your teammates.
Mike Fisher
#34. If you help them (the crew) create good memories, they'll forget all the bad stuff
Geoff Dyer
#35. I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership.
Harriet Harman
#36. Good general differ from bad generals only in the degree to which they resist the psychopathology of the very organization they serve. Norman Dixon
Patrick Hennessey
#37. What matters is working with a few close friends, people you respect, knowing that if times did turn bad these people would hold together.
Richard Branson
#38. Under a good administration, the Nile gains on the desert. Under a bad one, the desert gains on the Nile.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#39. There isn't good or bad Leadership. There is Leadership or there is not. You are Leading or you are not.
Chris Whipp
#40. Psychological pseudoscience dies hard, especially when there are commercial interests at stake.
Paul Gibbons
#41. Good leaders sacrifice for others to survive; bad leaders sacrifice others to survive
Saji Ijiyemi
#42. When you know every well what to do and how to do it, your attitude determines how well you will have it done!
Israelmore Ayivor
#43. If a preacher tells you how God says you are, I don't see how you can say that's bad preaching.
Johnny Hunt
#44. My sports were team sports: ice hockey and baseball. The whole team dynamic is similar in business. Leadership is earned - the captain earns that role; it's not because he's the coach's son. These are all things we know, but in today's world, it's not a bad idea to remind ourselves.
James McNerney
#45. That's good advice for any young person to remember who aspires to leadership in corporate or public life. Develop a thick skin when it comes to the press. Remember you're never as bad-or as good-as the press says you are.
William Schreyer
#46. If the only thing that you are good at is convincing others that you are good, then being in biz with you is bad experience.
Orrin Woodward
#47. Good leadership is pervasive, persuasive, and persistent. Bad leadership is poisoned with pedanticism, posturing, self-importance.
Marcia Whicker
#48. Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.
Charles Dickens
#49. I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics.
Barack Obama
#50. Anyone's World can ONLY be as good, bad or BIG as their IMAGINATION...!
Nothing less, nothing more..!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#51. Educators are in the news, too. Usually that's bad. I had a favorite college professor. He used to tell us, 'If you make CNN as a teacher, you're probably going to jail.
Tucker Elliot
#52. Reprogram your life and mind-set by replacing the bad with the positive, the weakness with the strength.
Archibald Marwizi
#53. There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.
Shiv Khera
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