Quotes About Management Vs. Leadership

#1. When you master the basics, and execute them well, there's no need to worry about the score.

Frank Sonnenberg

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

Paul Gibbons

#3. 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

#4. Not everyone is born a great leader, but anyone can foster core leadership competencies for themselves and become actionable, effective leaders.

Ravinder Tulsiani

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should they be. Effective leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do.

Warren G. Bennis

#8. Reputation is an outcome; but it is also a valuable, strategic asset.

Andrew Griffin

#9. A boss in essence is every woman willing to try, push, succeed, fail but ultimately do the work in her lifescape to make her mark on the world the way she wants to draw it.

Jaha Knight

#10. People. Products. Profits. In that order.

Ken Goldstein

#11. Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Stephen Covey

#12. What counts that we're not counting?

Frank Sonnenberg

#13. Increasingly, management's role is not to organize work, but to direct passion and purpose.

Greg Satell

#14. In essence, leadership is the sense of calling to a higher purpose.

Amit Ray

#15. A $10,000 investment in Dell at its 1988 initial public offering would have yielded a fortune of ~$6 million at the stock's peak.

Heather Simmons

#16. When business leaders talk about the next quarter, they ought to sometimes be talking about the next quarter century.

Paul Gibbons

#17. Leaders live by reality and not by assumptions!

Gary Rohrmayer

#18. All leading from the rear gets you, is first place at the back of the line.

Mark W. Boyer

#19. The manager administers; the leader innovates.

Warren G. Bennis

#20. The punch line is 'knock the morale of an employee and organizational productivity is punctured'.

Henrietta Newton Martin

#21. Leadership is familiar, but not well understood.

Gerald M. Weinberg

#22. If you are not taking the time to set your own goals, chances are pretty high someone else is doing it for you. So don't be surprised someday when you end up someplace you never hoped to be.

Mark W. Boyer

#23. It's not about how smart you are
it's about capturing minds.

Richie Norton

#24. Too many kings can ruin an army

Homer

#25. Whether a chief executive officer (CEO) is applying the practices to build an organizational vision or an employee is helping a colleague resolve a problem, anyone at any organizational level can leverage leadership practices.

Gary DePaul

#26. The manager comes to see all relationships with others by a strict utilitarian calculus and, insofar as he dares, breaks friendships and alliances accordingly.

Robert Jackall

#27. 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

#28. Digital synchronization occurs when all parts of the choir sing their respective parts in harmony.

Pearl Zhu

#29. 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

#30. You can lead with or without a title. If you wait until you get a title, you may wait forever.

Mark Miller

#31. If your endeavors result in success of the company in a continuity of at
least a few years, you are a successful manager. If other companies follow
your business approach, you are certainly an important manager with
leader characteristics.

Eraldo Banovac

#32. I always have my own opinion before my boss says his.

Gerry Geek

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

Scott Hammerle

#34. Expression is the truth, impression is a lie.

Krishna Sagar

#35. 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

#36. If you continue doing what you have done in the past, you will get what you have received in the past.

Avinash Narula

#37. Making appointments with yourself and scheduling other things around them is key to proactive self-management.

Michael Hyatt

#38. 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

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

D. Nicole Williams

#40. A knowledgeable manager can lend to the success of an organization "almost" as much as a poorly trained manager can damage it.

Mark W. Boyer

#41. Managers are people who know what they want.
Leaders are people who get what they want.

Bogdan Vaida

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. Rethink change: Make change management irrelevant through Appreciative Leadership Innovation focused Expectations (ALIFE)

Tony Dovale

#45. 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

#46. TRUST AND FAIRNESS DEVELOP HARMONY

Miguel Reynolds Brandao

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

Paul Gibbons

#48. Manager! Have brain - use it!

Gerry Geek

#49. 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

#50. The notion of "business as usual" is a harmful myth.

Paul Gibbons

#51. Expectation levels set can be directly correlated to the quality of the training provided.

Mark W. Boyer

#52. Don't buy into the campaign that people don't like change. We are built for it.

Stacy Feiner