Quotes About Leadership And Decision Making

#1. Money follows mission, not the reverse. This is a shorthand way of saying that the stronger the congregation's relational characteristics, the easier it is to raise money. The stronger the congregation's mission, visitation, groupings, leadership, and decision making, the stronger the giving.

Kennon Callahan

#2. The true meaning of life lies in learning. When you learn, you understand the things better, when you understand the things better, it reflects in your actions, and when your actions are right, according to the process of life, you are bound to receive the desired result.

Roshan Sharma

#3. That which a team does not want to discuss, it most needs to discuss.

Paul Gibbons

#4. Strategy is something that emerges from reality, while tactics might be chosen.

George Friedman

#5. As a leader, I am there to make the best decisions possible with the evidence at hand and to be able to justify that decision. If it goes wrong, we add to the evidence for making the next decision, but there is no reason for regretting failure, as failure is just the production of evidence.

Michael A. Wood Jr.

#6. The company's leadership plays a major role in framing the right questions for decision-making.

Pearl Zhu

#7. The difficulty was not that of following a moral principle at personal cost; the difficulty was that of knowing what to do when there is more than one principal, and when the principles clash.

Elton Trueblood

#8. If we are going to out-innovate, out-compete, out-educate other countries, it's going to be women who make a difference, it's women who are going to lead the way and you know, until women get that rightful place and decision making and leadership and growth, America won't realize all her potential.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#9. Leaders need to correct for cognitive biases the way a sharpshooter corrects for wind velocity or a yachtsman corrects for the tide.

Paul Gibbons

#10. The wisdom that comes from being conscious of the real threats to you and your mission will sharpen your deliberateness in decision & choice-making, associations and positioning.

Archibald Marwizi

#11. Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result, and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility.

Tony Robbins

#12. All through your life, you'll be faced with making a decision between two things-choose the one that is right. If they are both right, then choose the one that will make you feel the best about it at the end of the day.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Paul Gibbons

#14. Free and open expression coupled with visionary leadership generally encourages good decision-making.

M. Russell Ballard

#15. As a vibrant force in civil society, women continue to press for their rights, equal participation in decision-making, and the upholding of the principles of the revolution by the highest levels of leadership in Egypt.

Michelle Bachelet

#16. Leadership is about making the right decision and the best decision before, sometimes, it becomes entirely popular.

Martin O'Malley

#17. 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

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

Paul Gibbons

#19. 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

#20. Instead of looking at leadership as decision making - as a rational process of sifting through data, analyzing trends, and making decisions based on predicting futures - a design framework emphasizes pragmatic experimentation.

Frank J. Barrett

#21. I had discovered long ago the first lesson of political courage: to think anew. I had then learned the second: to be prepared to lead and to decide. I was now studying the third: how to take the calculated risk. I was going to alienate some people, like it or not. The moment you decide, you divide.

Tony Blair

#22. Framing the right problem is equally or even more important than solving it.

Pearl Zhu

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

Paul Gibbons

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

Scott J. Simmerman Ph.D.

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

David J. Greer

#26. In the 1960 campaign, Arthur Schlesinger wrote of Adlai Stevenson, who already lost twice as the party's presidential nominee, He has been away from power too long; he gives me an odd sense of unreality, a certain frivolity, distractedness, over-interest in words and phrases.

David Pietrusza