Top 100 Quotes About Leadership And Management
#2. It's important to get in the habit of growing as a human being, developing and refining leadership and management skills and entrepreneurial instincts and changing to accommodate the times.
Ivanka Trump
#3. Digital synchronization occurs when all parts of the choir sing their respective parts in harmony.
Pearl Zhu
#4. Discipline is "the systematic management of your life to prepare and position you for your divine design." Discipline and stewardship are one and the same. Discipline brings order to life and is absolutely required if we're going to be good stewards of the call to leadership.
Kent Ingle
#5. You can lead with or without a title. If you wait until you get a title, you may wait forever.
Mark Miller
#6. Leaders are the human catalyst that overcomes our desire for the status quo.
Scott Hammerle
#7. We must practice consistent, reliable, predictable, effective, thoughtful, compassionate and even courteous communication every single day to successfully sustain, develop and grow our business.
Kip Tindell
#8. If you continue doing what you have done in the past, you will get what you have received in the past.
Avinash Narula
#9. Making appointments with yourself and scheduling other things around them is key to proactive self-management.
Michael Hyatt
#10. 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
#11. Master Yourself and you master your environment! Such is the nature of wisdom.
D. Nicole Williams
#12. Competition and rivalry between the members of a group are the antithesis of the cooperation and team play needed in an effective management group. This is why team building is an empty abstraction for a group whose leader controls with power.
Thomas Gordon
#13. Dr. Prem, a world renowned speaker delivers flawless speeches on various topics including leadership, public speaking, business management and global healthcare. Dr. Prem is well informed and his speeches are well researched.
David Nelson
#14. Stress and anxiety at work have less to do with the work we do and more to do with weak management and leadership.
Simon Sinek
#15. At its best, leadership development is not an "event." It's a capacity-building endeavor. It's a process of human growth and development.
Linda Fisher Thornton
#17. You cannot be a modern association without a contemporary board.
Omer Soker
#18. Too few leaders have the emotional fortitude to take responsibility for failure.
Paul Gibbons
#19. 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
#20. Expectation levels set can be directly correlated to the quality of the training provided.
Mark W. Boyer
#21. Don't let Deepak Chopra manage your change program.
Paul Gibbons
#22. In their groundbreaking book, Tribal Leadership, management consultants Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright lay out the five stages of tribal development, which they formulated after conducting extensive research on small to midsize organizations.
Phil Jackson
#23. Not everyone is born a great leader, but anyone can foster core leadership competencies for themselves and become actionable, effective leaders.
Ravinder Tulsiani
#24. Sometimes servant leaders focus on the servitude part and forget the leader part. Great leadership isn't about abdication of power, it about the benevolent application of that power.
Scott Hammerle
#25. Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank.
Peter Drucker
#26. Increasingly, management's role is not to organize work, but to direct passion and purpose.
Greg Satell
#27. When you master the basics, and execute them well, there's no need to worry about the score.
Frank Sonnenberg
#28. Competition is created from within, when you make a conscious decision to demand more from yourself.
Mark W. Boyer
#29. At the end of the day, man-management is all about managing people's sense and sensitivity...
Sandhya Jane
#30. Your reputation is what others think of you; your character is what you truly are. Reputations can be manipulated; character can only be developed and maintained.
Bohdi Sanders
#33. True leadership must have follower-ship. Management styles can vary, but even an autocrat needs people who believe and simply don't follow from fear.
James D. Robinson III
#34. For individuals and organizations alike, a reputation is far easier to destroy than it is to build.
Andrew Griffin
#35. If you can 'hire tough,' you can 'manage easy.
Sue Tetzlaff
#36. Many people get visited by the Lord in a given time but lack the wisdom to navigate in it.
Paul Gitwaza
#37. Good management has considerable impact on engagement levels of the employees and drives them towards excellent performances.
Abhishek Ratna
#38. The change "grief cycle", for some people, may be excitement, enthusiasm, engagement, effort, and excellence.
Paul Gibbons
#39. Look inward for solutions to your greatest challenges.
Omer Soker
#40. The future is dependent on the decisions you make today.
Omer Soker
#41. Innovation can start with wanting what does not yet exist - and finding a solution - or seeing what does not yet exist - and finding an opportunity.
Max McKeown
#42. Culture is what happens when the managers are not around.
Pearl Zhu
#43. Valuation depends on several factors. From an investor angle, they look at leadership position, management, and what the company's offerings are. I think these three things got 5/5 for a company like Flipkart, and that is what is driving valuations and growth.
Sachin Bansal
#44. Having a person of Dr. Berthiaume's calibre leading Library and Archives Canada will be a solid asset to the organization. His extensive experience in the management of large cultural organizations and his strong leadership are important qualifications for this position.
Shelly Glover
#46. In fact, over the last twenty years, authors have offered up over nine thousand different systems, languages, principles, and paradigms to help explain the mysteries of management and leadership.
Marcus Buckingham
#47. Those who disrupt their industries change consumer behavior, alter economics, and transform lives.
Heather Simmons
#48. To foster a solution mindset, tell employees that you are not interested in who or what caused the problem. You are only interested in hearing how we plan to go beyond the problem.
Jag Randhawa
#49. Let's form a committee tasked with exploring why committees are so ineffective. Then we'll stand-back and watch it argue and self-destruct.
Ryan Lilly
#50. Management's job is to convey leadership's message in a compelling and inspiring way. Not just in meetings, but also by example.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#51. No matter how slow or long it takes, it is never too late to right a wrong.
Mark W. Boyer
#52. A manager must always provide the employees opportunities to continuously improve their skills and reassure them that they have a promising future.
Abhishek Ratna
#53. Not only in personal relationships, but also in professional life, if like minded people work together, it is a beauty to witness
Rajasaraswathii
#54. Leaders should know how fast time runs and how faster they can beat it. Poor leaders run slowly till time overtakes them.
Israelmore Ayivor
#55. Organizational culture is just like the "Operation System" of the organization, you need reboot periodically to keep it running smoothly.
Pearl Zhu
#56. Our system is not fit for purpose. It's inadequate in terms of its scope, it's inadequate in terms of its information technology, leadership, management systems and processes.
John Richard Reid
#57. If all you are doing is spending time with the struggling members of your church and you are not building proactively into your church's culture, and you are being shortsighted and limiting the effectiveness of your ministry.
James MacDonald
#59. The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead.
Jack Weatherford
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. ReThink Training: The best process of learning is on the job, just-in-time, "nibble-knowledge" to incrementally transform mindsets and skillsets irrevocably.
Tony Dovale
#64. Once you expect great things from yourself, anything is possible.
Mark W. Boyer
#65. The punch line is 'knock the morale of an employee and organizational productivity is punctured'.
Henrietta Newton Martin
#66. 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
#67. The difference between mere management and leadership is communication.
Winston Churchill
#68. If you are not willing to give a less experienced qualified professional a chance, don't complain you are charged double for a job worth half.
Mark W. Boyer
#69. Never be SARCASTIC. A clever remark might gain you a few laughs but the butt of your remarks will be offended and will remember you for it.
Gary L. Graybill
#70. I'm OK with firing people when they fuck up, but canning them when they've done nothing wrong - that's painful. [on the layoffs needed after 9/11 hit the business]
Marcus Samuelsson
#71. Those who do not appreciate the value of time are celebrity failures. Success is time management.
Moutasem Algharati
#72. If one wishes to be a great project manager, one needs to talk less and write more.
GE Paulus
#73. Move away from the mid-set that the fulfillment of the organization's mission, vision, and strategic plan is only the work of leaders.
Sue Tetzlaff
#74. People don't follow you because you are nice, they follow you because they believe the place you are taking them is better than the place they are.
Scott Hammerle
#75. The only consequence of their (employee) silence is that the blind (employer) lead the blind.
Margaret Heffernan
#76. Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
Tom Peters
#77. Leadership is service, not position.
Tim Fargo
#78. 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
#79. There has to be a way to redirect employee's driving ambition and to channel it more productively. There is. Create heroes in every role. Make every role, performed at excellence, a respected profession.
Marcus Buckingham
#80. An employee's inability to be wrong, obsessed with their personal agenda, or complacency with the comfort of their title and paycheck often keeps them stuck in selfish politics and silo mentalities.
Angela Lynne Craig
#81. There was nothing scientific about Scientific Management (Taylorism), and neither was it good management.
Paul Gibbons
#82. Strategy has no value if your culture and leadership mindset are wrong
Tony Dovale
#83. 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
#84. People work harder, longer, and more creatively if they are motivated by the intrinsic pleasure of their work. Managers must do everything they can to make the value of jobs obvious and the joy in them accessible.
Robert Watson
#85. Learn from your experiences and past mistakes, assimilate them and convert them to formulas to achieve sustenance first , and then work your way to success to be the leaders in the market.
Henrietta Newton Martin
#86. We must always be mindful of who we are being while we are leading.
Lolly Daskal
#87. We often commit foolish mistakes in trying to be smart
Siddharth Joshi
#88. Today's Arab crisis is not one of money, men, morale, land or resources ... The real crisis is rather one of leadership, management and perennial egotism.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#89. If you want to know how a manager is performing ask to see their data, really want to know ... ask those that report to them.
Mark W. Boyer
#90. Leadership is the influence of a person(s) on another person(s) which guides their efforts in a specific direction, with more purpose, clarity, and unity than they would have held on their own.
Michael A. Wood Jr.
#91. Management is the kitchen that produces a delicious meal, where Leadership is the Chef hooked by a purpose across the canyon of risks that adds the fragrance and taste to make it go beyond expectations.
Amit Chatterjee
#92. When you are on top of your game you don't have to talk about it, the world will do that for you.
Dorethia Conner Kelly
#93. Leadership is an unlimited resource and as such, is a lifelong pursuit of learning. That learning must be to transform 'leader of position' to 'leadership with moral purpose'.
Hilarie Owen
#94. Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.
Stephen Covey
#95. Create and communicate absolute clarity of purpose.
Omer Soker
#96. You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.
Grace Hopper
#97. Ike was like a giant umbrella. He absorbed what was coming down from above, shielded his commanders from higher authority, and about them to fight the war without excessive second-guessing.
Jean Edward Smith
#98. There is no check-box for ethical leadership.
It is an ongoing individual and organizational journey.
We will never know everything that there is to know.
Linda Fisher Thornton
#99. Adapt and adopt the peer-to-peer and open source models to wider implementation in organisations
Miguel Reynolds Brandao
#100. Delegation is not a binary thing. There are shades of grey between a dictatorship and an anarchy.
Jurgen Appelo
