Top 38 Quotes About Managers And Leaders
#1. Managers and leaders cause most of the organizational confusion and frustration by not doing their jobs - their real jobs.
Liz Weber
#2. In unstable times, growth comes from leaders who create change and engage their organizations, instead of from managers who push their employees to do more for less.
Seth Godin
#3. Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.
Orrin Woodward
#4. Managers watch over our numbers, our time and our results. Leaders watch over us.
Simon Sinek
#6. The reason most of your staff are asleep and disengaged, is because you have boring, and bully managers, and no REAL Leaders to inspire and unleash potential.
Tony Dovale
#7. Employees who are controlled cannot respond caringly, you need superior knowledge and real leadership, not management. Because of this we specifically developed a selection process for leaders; we don't hire managers.
Horst Schulze
#8. Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
Warren Bennis
#9. Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future.
Paul Orfalea
#11. For a large corporation to be effective, it must be simple. For an organization to be simple, its people must have self-confidence and intellectual self-assurance. Insecure managers create complexity, real leaders do not clutter.
Jack Welch
#12. when organizations adopt Agile practices, it is imperative that team leaders and development managers learn a better approach to leading and managing their teams.
Jurgen Appelo
#13. Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!
Tom Peters
#14. To be a good boss, you must be transparent. Theres a correlation between worker happiness and workplace transparency. Leaders and managers who offer transparency will earn the respect and devotion of their team.
David Niu
#15. Managers who don't lead are quite discouraging, but leaders who don't manage don't know what's going on. It's a phony separation that people are making between the two.
Henry Mintzberg
#16. People with power do not regulate their behavior as much. They become egocentric and preoccupied with their own self-interest, which eclipses their awareness of the interests of others.
Dean M. Schroeder
#17. The extraordinary power of influence is now within everyone's reach. Recent graduates, executive assistants, project managers, and business leaders can all benefit from Monarth's simple steps for 'getting everyone to follow your lead.'
Marshall Goldsmith
#18. Managers assert drive and control to get things done; leaders pause to discover new ways of being and achieving .
Kevin Cashman
#19. Catalyst also provides a handy, free-of-charge quiz that managers could benefit from taking. The quiz can help leaders understand whether their organizations are inclusive and what areas need to be improved.
Ruchika Tulshyan
#20. Leaders fight for freedom of action. Managers struggle to understand the rules and staying in their parameters.
Elena D. Calin
#21. Instead of complaining about adapting for millennials, it's imperative for leaders and managers to acknowledge the role of millennial behavior as an indication of the needs of the modern workplace to attract, leverage, and retain modern talent.
Crystal Kadakia
#22. Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are.
Jim Rohn
#23. Leaders are passionate about the Purpose, while Managers need to be passionate about the Results!
Amit Chatterjee
#24. Bury My Heart is a life-altering approach to turning managers into unconditionally committed leaders.
Stan Slap
#25. Managers are people who know what they want.
Leaders are people who get what they want.
Bogdan Vaida
#26. People respond well to managers who stop being bosses and start being leaders. They go the extra mile if they genuinely believe that your success is their success and vice versa.
Tim Fargo
#27. 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
#28. Victims blame, managers maintain, and leaders change.
Orrin Woodward
#29. Sales managers need to be good leaders. How do they do it? Good leaders effectively communicate their goals and objectives while they focus on doing their job ProActively, and let their people focus on their job. If this is true, then the inverse must be true.
William Miller
#30. Inside any important philanthropy meeting, you witness heads of state meeting with investment managers and corporate leaders. All are searching for answers with their right hand to problems that others in the room have created with their left.
Peter Buffett
#31. Managers maintain the present while leaders create the future.
Orrin Woodward
#32. Managers tell you where you are, leaders tell you where you're going.
Rands
#33. If you find a community with less production and less inspiring inventions, then know it is a sign of lack of Business Leaders and full of General Managers do not know what they can manage or what they are managing.
Sameh Elsayed
#34. For every difficult destination, there are thousands who stand aside and point the way for each one with courage and capacity to go before and show the way. The former are managers; the latter are leaders.
Dee Hock
#35. Sometimes the best way to get other people to give up their egos is for you to give up yours first.
Jane Ripley
#36. Managers will tell people what to do, whereas leaders will inspire them to do it, and there are a few things that go into the ability to inspire.
Jeff Weiner
#37. Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.
Peter Singer
#38. Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
Seth Godin
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