Quotes About Leadership And Change

#1. There is an inexorable correlation between leadership and change.

Andy Stanley

#2. We're trained to see the world in terms of charismatic organizations and charismatic people. That's who we look to for leadership and change, for transformation. We're awaiting the next J.F.K., the next Martin Luther King, the next Gandhi, the next Nelson Mandela.

Paul Hawken

#3. Successful leaders know how to line up support for their initiatives and create the right environment for change and innovation.

Bonnie Marcus

#4. Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change.

Andy Hargreaves

#5. You can provide the conditions for the motivation of others and the leadership to help them find a way but they must have the intrinsic spark, the desire, to move, to overcome the inertia of the status quo and change things.

Graham Speechley

#6. Leaders are the human catalyst that overcomes our desire for the status quo.

Scott Hammerle

#7. People don't change that much. Instead of trying to put in what God left out, try drawing out what God left in!

Curt Coffman

#8. Master Yourself and you master your environment! Such is the nature of wisdom.

D. Nicole Williams

#9. A level 4 leader's greatest asset is his ability to engage, empower, and equip his people; this is what creates the momentum for a significant change in the organization. He invests 80% in his people and 20% in the process.

Farshad Asl

#10. 21st Century Managers must change their thinking because they are now in the business of managing Mindsets & thinking, which impacts actions and behaviors.

Tony Dovale

#11. You need strong leadership to effectuate change, and the easiest way is to keep everything status quo. And sometimes changes are necessary. If not, you build up too much potential energy.

Ronnie Chan

#12. Believing in your potential and calling upon your courage to change will fuel your professional growth and help you accomplish goals.

John Manning

#13. Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.

Joseph Nye

#14. Too few leaders have the emotional fortitude to take responsibility for failure.

Paul Gibbons

#15. 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

#16. Your Results will only change when you change your mindset, thinking and actions.

Tony Dovale

#17. When you choose to act on your problems, you cease to be a victim of circumstance and become a force of change; that's when you transition to not only being a survivor, but to being a leader or hero too, and an inspiration to those still in the victim's mindset.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#18. Don't let Deepak Chopra manage your change program.

Paul Gibbons

#19. 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

#20. Leaders respond & change; the rest quit and blame.

Orrin Woodward

#21. To embrace God is to embrace change. God does not operate by a predictable paradigm. He works through flux and chaos - and so should we. When crises come, don't panic - innovate! That's the essence of leadership.

Pat Williams

#22. Emotions or feelings stem from your attitude and they become the basis on which you decide or act. All decisions, choices and actions have some kind of underlying emotional influence. To change the way you feel about someone or something you must first change the way you think about them.

Archibald Marwizi

#23. Leaders can change the tenor of the workplace and create harmony in motion toward a favorable result. So every time you say to your team, "Let's rock and roll," make sure you have already set up the stage to where they can actually perform like rock stars.

Thomas Huynh

#24. Growing a business requires that we look at ourselves and change the way we make decisions.

David J. Greer

#25. Don't just DO something. Stand there! (and get perspective and understanding)

Scott J. Simmerman Ph.D.

#26. I don't believe our country will last the way we know it much longer unless there's a change. And we just continue this moral decline going down, and the only hope, I believe, is God. We just hope and pray that maybe he'll hear our prayers and give us some godly leadership.

Franklin Graham

#27. 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

#28. Humanity can not afford to have 21st Century businesses run on 20th Century science, and (worse) pseudoscience.

Paul Gibbons

#29. Leaders make things better and that requires change.

Andy Stanley

#30. Who you are when you have no power to say anything, and who you become when you have power to say everything will determine whether you are a leader or not.

Israelmore Ayivor

#31. Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.

Maria Cantwell

#32. REAL Leaders are experts at bringing out the best in others ... Thinking , feelings and actions. They improve their teams' thinking skills and Mindsets.

Tony Dovale

#33. True leadership will not be measured by the ability to muzzle dissent, or to intimidate and harass political opponents at home. The people of the world want change. They will not long tolerate those who are on the wrong side of history.

Barack Obama

#34. Leaders respond & change; the rest quit and blame.

Orrin Woodward

#35. The essence of extended rationality is to know when you are being irrational.

Paul Gibbons

#36. A prophet is one who sees what is happening and being done in the present that they can tell us what will happen to us if we do not change now, immediately, turning from our present course.

Megan McKenna

#37. Great leadership involves three things. The ability to realize when you are wrong, a willingness to learn from it, and an eagerness to change course if necessary.

Jeffrey Fry

#38. If you're a good experienced player, you wknow what it takes to do. If you're in trouble, you know how to change. One hundred percent of my game is instinct. I never stop and think I'm going to hit a ball crosscourt or down the line. I just do it.

Bjorn Borg

#39. The change "grief cycle", for some people, may be excitement, enthusiasm, engagement, effort, and excellence.

Paul Gibbons

#40. Learning how to respond to and master the process of change - and even to excel at it - is a critical leadership skill for the twenty-first century. Constant, rapid change will be a fact of life for all of us.

Jennifer James

#41. One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like to see that change by walking the walk.

Jennifer Doudna

#42. The new leader is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change.

Warren G. Bennis

#43. Mindfulness requires being a beginner. Setting absurdly high-standards, and being unwilling to be a novice, are the joint enemies of personal progress and change. Nobody benchpresses 100 kilos the first time they enter a gym.

Paul Gibbons

#44. Those who disrupt their industries change consumer behavior, alter economics, and transform lives.

Heather Simmons

#45. 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

#46. But I'm hopeful some of that will start to change. The public is more libertarian, the public is saying we want people who are going to be independent and not bow to leadership in either of the major parties.

Justin Amash

#47. Even though men and women are different in our thinking, we all share the need and desire for compassion, compliments, and companionship.

Germany Kent

#48. 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

#49. Make a difference, change the game for the better, leave a legacy, be a guide that someone else can follow and make better, and then someone else will follow that and make that better.

Carlos Wallace

#50. Spiritual leadership is the power to change the atmosphere by one's presence, the unconscious influence that makes Christ and spiritual things real to others.

J. Oswald Sanders

#51. Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

Jesse Jackson

#52. I think the script's actually pretty solid. It really is a labor of love for us to get this thing off the ground. It was scary but then there was the change in leadership and I think that the new guy in charge is basically like, "We should just do this."

Nicholas Stoller

#53. Pop leadership abuts pop psychology, and is very destructive. In no other serious domain of human endeavor (surgery, playing the violin) is the subject distilled down to nice-sounding aphorisms that mean nothing.

Paul Gibbons

#54. The challenge for us is to find some response that actually inspires change rather than clinging to the old ways that cause resentment, and more importantly, distract from the real problem.

Adele Faber

#55. We need to change the leadership model in the world. That's my passion in life: changing hearts and minds about leadership.

Bob Vanourek

#56. What is the difference between project management and project leadership? Although there is an elusive line between them, the core difference is that management deals with complexity, whereas leadership deals with change.

Jim Highsmith

#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. I have no idea what I did. I heard people talk about dead leg, shake, change of pace and all that, but I did things without thinking about them.

Gale Sayers

#60. Change is easy to propose, hard to implement, and especially hard to sustain.

Andy Hargreaves

#61. Greenhouse gas emissions and global warming are among humanity's most pressing concerns. Societal expectations on climate change are real, and our industry is expected to take a leadership role.

Ali Al-Naimi

#62. Yesterday's decision-making strategies are ill-equipped to deal with petabyte information flows.

Paul Gibbons

#63. Creativity cannot be really regulated, but it can be encouraged. The redevelopment or revitalization of a city is an art. It depends on the individual strengths of a place and the will of the leadership to bring about change. The goal is to establish a cultural infrastructure.

Charles Landry

#64. The day that the leadership of the military comes to me and says, 'Senator, we ought to change the policy,' then I think we ought to consider seriously changing it.

John McCain

#65. Just stamping out anti-science and bad science will eliminate an enormous amount of business waste

Paul Gibbons

#66. Without faith, it is impossible to succeed. It takes faith to grow, change or move out of your comfort zone. All external interventions become futile without the personal and internalized buy-in from the spirit-man who needs to change towards a given success destination.

Archibald Marwizi

#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. Fundamentally leadership is about change and influencing people to change.

Pearl Zhu

#69. We have minds that are equipped for certainty, linearity and short-term decisions, that must instead make long-term decisions in a non-linear, probabilistic world.

Paul Gibbons

#70. There was nothing scientific about Scientific Management (Taylorism), and neither was it good management.

Paul Gibbons

#71. It is the first time in the history of Rwanda that political change in the highest leadership of the country has taken place in peace and security.

Paul Kagame

#72. If a Christian is not willing to rise early and work late, to expend greater effort in diligent study and faithful work, that person will not change a generation. Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the result of never getting tired.

J. Oswald Sanders

#73. Leaders motivate people to understand that they can do better than they've already done and go farther than they've reached.

Israelmore Ayivor

#74. By learning more, by doing more, by becoming more, and by creating a common vision, a leader is a person who can inspire others to change for the better.

Debasish Mridha

#75. To change you must want to change, you must be responsible for the change, and then take action to make the change. It is your race to run so you need to choose your road wisely.

Thomas Narofsky

#76. Strategy has no value if your culture and leadership mindset are wrong

Tony Dovale

#77. Leaders can choose to grow and change, but generally the most powerful predictor of future performance is past behavior. Evaluate them realistically.

Lee Ellis

#78. When a leader is at their limit the last thing they want to hear is that they need to change even more. Maintaining good rhythms of rest, exercise and fun create more energy for a leader to be willing and open for change.

Gary Rohrmayer

#79. 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

#80. The rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them.

Andy Hargreaves

#81. Do you want to sell sugar water all your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?

Steve Jobs

#82. Give yourself permission 2 evolve. Become a philosopher; come up with your own interpretation of life and stop accepting someone else's as your truth.

Germany Kent

#83. Don't waste your energy in fighting the old. Use it to build the new.

Abhijit Naskar

#84. Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome.

John P. Kotter

#85. If we can spend more time uprooting vices and rooting virtues, our world will be safer and better.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#86. Think of yourself as an athlete. I guarantee you it will change the way you walk, the way you work, and the decisions you make about leadership, teamwork, and success.

Mariah Burton Nelson

#87. Next generation leaders are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside.

Andy Stanley

#88. So they actually put it into their mission statement, and they start changing things as a result. They may change how worship works. They may actively recruit folks and try and get them to come and help them to feel comfortable and get them involved in leadership, and there's a variety of ways.

Michael Emerson

#89. 21st century leaders will be growers, not knowers.

Paul Gibbons

#90. The great task of statesmanship is to apply past lessons to new situations, to draw correct analogies to understand and act upon present forces, to recognise the need for change ...

Malcolm Fraser

#91. Behaviorism was a busted flush, but neo-behaviorist theories, especially choice architecture, achieve behavioral change without coercion or the downsides of carrots and sticks.

Paul Gibbons

#92. An entrepreneur is a leader of excellence, trailblazer and pioneer who constantly brings change to their generation.

Onyi Anyado

#93. Research has shown the challenge caused by Climate change is mainly man-made due to abdication of leadership and personal responsibility in taking care of the environment. Will you be part of the army replenishing the earth and promoting proper stewardship of its resources?

Archibald Marwizi

#94. You need to change the questions you ask yourself and of your situations, in order to change the trajectory of your life. These are questions that will help you define and refine your purpose.

Archibald Marwizi

#95. I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.

Kamala Harris

#96. The foundation of all long-term success lies in building a Resilient and Growth oriented MINDSET.

Tony Dovale

#97. Business is the most important institution on the planet for furthering human flourishing.

Paul Gibbons

#98. Every story of change there is always someone who didn't have the resources or the network they needed and did something anyway.

Andy Stanley

#99. Leadership is not a voice crying in the wilderness, aloof and apart. It requires an ability to command as well as to inspire, to learn in the process of collaboration and to build a team with a common purpose that can take action and execute the change they envision.

Bob Rae

#100. The best way to encourage out of the box thinking is to draw the box correctly in the first place.

Paul Gibbons