Quotes About Shared Leadership

#1. Shared leadership ... is less like a an orchestra, where the conductor is always in charge, and more like a jazz band, where leadership is passed around ... depending on what the music demands at the moment and who feels most moved by the spirit to express the music.

Phillip C. Schlechty

#2. Only in death does duty end.

Unknown

#3. Too often, shared visions really mean, "I have a vision; you share it!"

Andy Hargreaves

#4. The ONLY thing leaders have in common is the shared decision to lead.

Seth Godin

#5. Eleanor knew that she was fat, but she didn't feel that fat. She could feel her bones and muscles just underneath all the chub, and they were big, too. Park's mom could wear Eleanor's rib cage like a roomy vest.

Rainbow Rowell

#6. The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.

Ken Blanchard

#7. I am enormously uncool. I've made a cottage industry of being uncool. And I'm fine with that.

Chuck Palahniuk

#8. Claiming my right to follow whethersoever science should lead ... it is as respectable to be modified monkey as modified dirt.

Thomas Huxley

#9. This is your life and the afterlife merged together in one perfect, endless existence.

Drew Magary

#10. Reliance in its purest, highest, form is a code to live by: That every life matters. Every future matters. Taking care of each other matters. And our shared purpose is to create amazing futures for our children's children.

Bill Jensen

#11. The leader builds dispersed and diverse leadership - distributing leadership to the outermost edges of the circle to unleash the power of shared responsibility.

Frances Hesselbein

#12. In order to solve problems, information has to be shared; and not only information, but doubts, fears and questions.

John Harvey-Jones

#13. Just when I thought my life would never be anything but misery, everything changed.

Gina Holmes

#14. In a team setting, leadership is shared by a community of people, which counters the tendency for pastors to form congregations in their own images.

Adam S. McHugh

#15. Honest people know that the road to success and virtue always involves shared sacrifice, hard work, and gratification postponed. Telling people otherwise isn't leadership, it is pandering.

Eric Liu

#16. By connecting and being part of a community with a shared vision and goals, we can create great things.

David J. Greer

#17. Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Claude Taylor

#18. I had written hundreds of memos during my 26 years at the company, and all had shared a common thread. They were about self-examination in the pursuit of excellence, and a willingness not to embrace the status quo. This is a cornerstone of my leadership philosophy.

Howard Schultz

#19. The one who listens attentively to the Word of God and truly prays, always asks the Lord: what is your will for me?

Pope Francis

#20. I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.

Mary Leakey

#21. When the pursuit of natural harmony is a shared journey, great heights can be attained.

Lynn Hill

#22. The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers ... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.

Garry Wills

#23. The Clash had a unique, special relationship with Scotland. Perhaps it was something to do with the energy, anger and beauty in their music. In Scotland at that time, there was a lot of to be angry about. And a great need of some energy and beauty.

John Niven

#24. I have made enough money to secure my family and that is all I care about.

Natalia Vodianova

#25. An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.

H. Rap Brown

#26. Leadership is the art of mobilizing others to want to struggle for shared aspirations.

Steve Farber

#27. True leaders have so much power they are willing to give it away. Power is not a fixed, quantifiable sum; instead it is an unlimited abstraction which grows as it is shared.

Marlene Caroselli

#28. Our province needs united leadership and shared purpose in tackling the challenges we face.

Jim Prentice

#29. I think I always wanted to have adventures in my life. I was always kind of a rambunctious kid.

Nolan Gerard Funk

#30. To all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand.

Barack Obama

#31. I believe that leadership acts should be manifested by engaging in external work that can be observed and shared with everyone else.

Zainab Salbi

#32. In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support.

Andy Hargreaves

#33. [Ella Baker]'s second defining characteristic was her dislike of top-down leadership ... 'She felt leaders were not appointed but the rose up. Someone will rise. Someone will emerge'. It was an attitude Baker shared with some of the older women in the movement.

Gail Collins

#34. Authentic leadership is about leading from the core of who we are to inspire each of us to our best contribution toward a shared mission.

Henna Inam

#35. There are proven ways to win the loyalty of tough, strong, ferocious men: play on the certain knowledge of their superiority, the mystique of secret covenant, the esprit of shared suffering.

Frank Herbert

#36. I think the whole under-eye-bag thing is hereditary, and I just got lucky.

Julianna Margulies

#37. The world's most primitive people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation between people. Poverty is a social status. As such it is the invention of civilization.

Marshall Sahlins

#38. You colour my world, Freda...

L. H. Cosway

#39. Soothing assumptions about the good faith and shared interests of antagonists are natural to democracy, as is the desire to spend money on things other than defense. Getting a democracy to do what does not come naturally requires leadership.

George F. Will