Quotes About Strategic Leadership

#1. Women have more to offer the church than mad decorating skills or craft nights. I look around: I see women who can offer strategic leadership, wisdom, counsel, and teaching.

Sarah Bessey

#2. You'll never be greater than yourself.

Bob Dylan

#3. With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are mutually beneficial. Each victory is not just for today but for tomorrow.

Max McKeown

#4. People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.

Peter F. Drucker

#5. Pomegranate molasses is ubiquitous in Arabic cooking: it's sweet, sour and adds depth.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#6. Leaders move among the various stages each day. But effective leaders move among the right stages at the right times.

Liz Weber

#7. This is a major strategic challenge affecting not only our military, but ultimately, America's leadership in the global world order, we are at a point where our national aspirations are at risk of exceeding our available resources.

Martin Dempsey

#8. The tough choice facing CIOs is not about only picking one identity as either being strategic or tactical, but about - when acting as a strategic leader, when playing as a tactical manager.

Pearl Zhu

#9. A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.

Max McKeown

#10. Strategy was first used in Athens (508 BC) to describe the art of leadership used by the ten generals on the war council. Some argue for the more creative, human side, while others argue for the more analytic side of strategy.

Max McKeown

#11. We need leaders who can meet and adapt to new challenges, build strategic partnerships, build and sustain human capital organizations, and have the courage to act and react to the challenges

Thomas Narofsky

#12. Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means.

Max McKeown

#13. In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.

Wendy Kopp

#14. I have written millions of words about contemporary England - in journalism. Why don't I take it as the background for a novel? I may do one day. But the simple answer is that it does not excite the novelistic part of my brain; it does not fire it up.

Sebastian Faulks

#15. Strategy is about shaping the future.

Max McKeown

#16. Strategic coherence is more important than strategic perfection.

Paul Gibbons

#17. So has the strategic decision been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction by the leadership in Baghdad? ... I think our judgment has to be clearly not.

Colin Powell

#18. Don't just let your career happen to you. You need to be strategic about how you define your leadership journey and where that takes you.

Denise Morrison

#19. We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is only his as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and his possessions at the call of the state.

Bernard Baruch

#20. ReThink culture, because it is the foundation of all strategic success.

Tony Dovale

#21. 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

#22. The federal government needs a strategic approach that includes strong leadership and the ability to manage weather related risks. The challenge of developing such an approach is complex: It must not only encompass all levels of government but must also be developed in a bipartisan manner.

Matt Cartwright

#23. Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-oriented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed ... Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.

Sheryl Sandberg

#24. Leadership is the art of influencing people to execute your strategic thinking

Nabil Khalil Basma

#25. We need serious strategic and tactical thinking about how to create new models of leadership and forge the kind of persons to actualize these models.

Cornel West

#26. Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven from the top are marginally effective - at best.

Peter Senge

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

Andrew Griffin

#28. We are not responsible for our endowments or natural abilities, but we are responsible for the strategic use of time.

J. Oswald Sanders

#29. The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.

John Olver

#30. Develop your leaders into a competitive advantage. Reconnect your leader-power to success.

Gene Morton

#31. I have led the way for moving women from traditional roles to strategic positions and inspired girls and women throughout Africa to seek leadership positions.

Dalia Grybauskaite

#32. The older that we get and the different stages we go through in life, it seems like we become different people. But I think that the truth is you are always the same person. You just discover these new things about yourself.

Sara Rue