Top 100 Quotes On Leadership Development
#1. 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
#2. Leadership development is about helping people grow, and if I can get people as individuals growing, then I've got a company that grows,
James McNerney
#3. In order to sustain the integrity of the organization, a business must dedicate time and resources to education, leadership development, and personnel development. Don't focus on the product. Focus on the team.
Robert Kiyosaki
#4. A leadership development plan has to address these three phases: Identifying emerging leaders Investing in the development of emerging leaders Entrusting responsibility to emerging leaders
Bill Hybels
#5. Too often when people think of their journey into leadership, they envision a career path. What they should be thinking about is their own leadership development!
John C. Maxwell
#6. The coaching process is unique in how it accomplishes leadership development. The coach works not by providing answers per se but by asking questions through which the leader gains new insights and takes new actions.
Aubrey Malphurs
#7. Leadership development is a lifetime journey, not a quick trip.
John C. Maxwell
#8. Many of the cataclysmic leadership failures were failures of rationality. The pendulum of leadership development needs to swing back toward the rational: strategy, creativity, foresight, decision-making, and analytics.
Paul Gibbons
#9. One of the landmines that church planters never dodge is the landmine
of leadership development. I will never forget the day when I realized
that there are no such things as 'ready-made leaders'.
Gary Rohrmayer
#10. Great leaders encourage leadership development. By openly developing themselves
Marshall Goldsmith
#11. I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.
Wendy Kopp
#12. We have created a culture of leadership "development" in the Church at the expense of ignore the ministry of the Church to making disciples.
John Paul Warren
#13. Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
Warren Bennis
#14. The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them.
John C. Maxwell
#15. I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.
Paul Wellstone
#16. Your leadership development strategy is perfectly designed to produce the caliber of leader you currently have.
Andy Stanley
#17. 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
#19. Part-time effort means part-tim results.
Tony Curl
#20. What is the cost of replacing and bringing up to speed one of your managers, supervisors, or front-line employees who left because they were frustrated with your organization's leadership?
Liz Weber
#21. Everybody in the world is capable of democratic development. Some people in the world are unlucky enough to get stuck with really bad political leadership and with really bad political institutions.
Condoleezza Rice
#22. The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.
Harvey S. Firestone
#23. Walking the walk is one thing, but it is so much more powerful if you can talk it as well.
Robin Hoyle
#24. Spiritual authority is the direct result of God doing a greater work in the deeper areas of a leader's life.
Gary Rohrmayer
#25. What happens when a leader misses his steps on the ladder is what happens when a train misses the rail. Be on track.
Israelmore Ayivor
#26. When leaders reframe customers into guests, and results into experiences, profits escalate.
Eric Schiffer
#27. You can't gather much if you won't go on risk expedition. Leaders never fear the thorns; they'll still go in for the beautiful roses no matter the number of pricks they'll get.
Israelmore Ayivor
#28. Leaders learn more from blames than praises. Praises make them know what's already done well; blames show them what's yet to be done well.
Israelmore Ayivor
#29. Making appointments with yourself and scheduling other things around them is key to proactive self-management.
Michael Hyatt
#30. In a human development sense, our understanding of leadership has essentially "grown up" and moved past personal ego and a self-centered view of things.
Linda Fisher Thornton
#31. Having a good definition of spiritual leadership is critical to development
of leadership cultural throughout your church. You need to know what you are
shooting for if you are going to hit the target.
Gary Rohrmayer
#32. Self-leadership always precedes team leadership.
Michael Hyatt
#33. We never have as great an opportunity to show self-comfort as when others around us aren't. Hint: Don't be a jerk because someone else is. Praise the behaviors in others that you most want to flourish.
Kare Anderson
#34. The speed at which progress rolls is not determined by the number of people who started pushing it, but by the number of people who are passionate to hold on doing so.
Israelmore Ayivor
#35. Rethink change: Make change management irrelevant through Appreciative Leadership Innovation focused Expectations (ALIFE)
Tony Dovale
#36. Develop your leaders into a competitive advantage. Reconnect your leader-power to success.
Gene Morton
#37. The theory that something has to be big to have a significant impact is false.
Angela Lynne Craig
#38. Believing in your potential and calling upon your courage to change will fuel your professional growth and help you accomplish goals.
John Manning
#40. All leadership begins from inside a person and must be developed and grown as they grow into emerging and enduring leaders
Thomas Narofsky
#41. In essence, leadership is the sense of calling to a higher purpose.
Amit Ray
#42. The only thing tougher than developing leadership skills is attempting to be successful without them.
Orrin Woodward
#43. Motivating people is more than having the right incentives, the right programs and the right benefit packages. It's about tapping into the unique passions, personalities and strengths of those entrusted to our care.
Steve Knox
#44. 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
#45. There are few second chances when it comes to establishing your leadership legacy.
Scott H. Dearduff
#46. Not everyone is born a great leader, but anyone can foster core leadership competencies for themselves and become actionable, effective leaders.
Ravinder Tulsiani
#47. The time it takes to fall from the top of a mountain to the floor it shorter than what it takes to climb from the floor to the top. Only leaders with character can maintain their trusts.
Israelmore Ayivor
#48. ReThink Real Success: Keeping your word to others and never lying to yourself
Tony Dovale
#49. Becoming a Leader of Character changes lives - our lives and the lives of the people we touch.
Dave Anderson
#50. Real leadership is not seeking the applause from followers; real leadership is applauding the followers who become leaders.
Onyi Anyado
#51. The best of all leaders is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him.
Lao-Tzu
#52. Great mentors don't solve your problems, they guide you to make your best decision and encourage you to take personal ownership of the next steps for success.
Steve Knox
#53. If you can lead yourself when nobody is following, people will follow when you are not leading
Saji Ijiyemi
#54. Hearing God's voice is indispensable to moving through or around closed doors.
Gary Rohrmayer
#55. Be the start of something that is good, revolutionary and powerful. Everything after that is a bonus!
Carlos Wallace
#56. I believe that it is essential to our leadership in the world and to the development of true democracy in our country to have no discrimination in our country whatsoever. This is most important in the schools of our country.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#57. Leaders are passionate learners. Leaders are always seeking ways to improve themselves by sharpening their skills. They fully embrace the fact that growing leaders lead growing organizations.
Gary Rohrmayer
#58. Leaders can change the tenor of the workplace and create harmony in motion toward a favorable result. So every time you say to your team, "Let's rock and roll," make sure you have already set up the stage to where they can actually perform like rock stars.
Thomas Huynh
#59. You don't need a title to be a leader, and having a title doesn't make you one.
Anthony T. Eaton
#60. 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
#61. Growing a business requires that we look at ourselves and change the way we make decisions.
David J. Greer
#62. The concert we give is winning. And if all the people in our organization whose instrument is scouting of player development or major league scouting or player knowledge, all play well, we're going to have the most beautiful symphony of success. And I think we have.
John Schuerholz
#63. Leaders know where they can function better. They don't cry over what they cannot do.
Israelmore Ayivor
#64. 1 Minute Wisdom: Rethink Your Mindset because how you view, filter, interpret and automatically give meaning your experiences; is what you'll believe them to be.
Tony Dovale
#65. The idea that the UN system could provide real leadership on the great development challenges will strain credulity in some quarters.
Jeffrey Sachs
#66. How we lead ourselves in life impacts how we lead those around us.
Michael Hyatt
#67. The power in people is stronger than people in power.
Saji Ijiyemi
#68. I've developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness, for its immense commitment to research and development in this field, and for its leadership in developing hybrids which others are now following.
Maurice Strong
#69. Who you are when you have no power to say anything, and who you become when you have power to say everything will determine whether you are a leader or not.
Israelmore Ayivor
#70. Serving my generation with excellence will mean my generation can in turn lead with excellence.
Onyi Anyado
#71. Leadership is about what's right for the organization, not what feels right for the leader.
Liz Weber
#72. If you cannot see where you are going, ask someone who has been there before.
J. Loren Norris
#73. A visionary is a leader of excellence who sees what others do not see, who achieves for now and plans for the future, who positively impacts different generations and raises up other visionaries.
Onyi Anyado
#74. When business leaders talk about the next quarter, they ought to sometimes be talking about the next quarter century.
Paul Gibbons
#75. A good manager will always have the big picture in mind and guide the employees through a series of small targets in order to achieve overall success.
Abhishek Ratna
#76. 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
#77. World class communities come in all shapes and sizes, they are not determined by geography, and/or natural resources so much as by the mindset of their local leadership.
Don A. Holbrook
#79. The key difference between captain and coach? The latter's opportunities for influence come at moments when play isn't happening,
Carolyn Taylor
#80. We all cannot do everything or solve every issue. "It's impossible", however, if we each simply do our part. Make our own contribution, regardless of how small we may think it is ... together it adds up and great things get accomplished.
Mark W. Boyer
#81. Now is the time to reinvent yourself and develop a new plan of action. Now is the time to create new actions and practices that are focused on growth and development in your personal and professional life. Now is the time to unleash your leadership potential and ignite your passion to lead.
Thomas Narofsky
#82. Good management has considerable impact on engagement levels of the employees and drives them towards excellent performances.
Abhishek Ratna
#83. When leaders acquire the skills that enable them to release the productive potential and tap the collective capabilities of the group, who knows what positive results will be achieved? Some of them may move mountains.
Thomas Gordon
#84. You will never see an eagle of distinction flying low with pigeons of mediocrity.
Onyi Anyado
#85. As more and more artificial intelligence is entering into the world, more and more emotional intelligence must enter into leadership.
Amit Ray
#86. Don't look for leadership just at the top of the tree. Listen to leadership wherever it is expressed.
Phil Dourado
#88. True leadership is not defined by notoriety, power, prestige, status, or job title...
Angie Morgan
#89. Leaders don't fall in love with mediocrity. The status quo isn't their desire to maintain but to improve.
Israelmore Ayivor
#90. Boundaries are easier to manage when your values are well-defined.
Joe Jordan
#91. All progress begins with a decision. Effective leadership requires decisive action. Embrace the process of deciding, yet recognize when you have reached a choice point.
Angie Morgan
#92. What you see as a crisis, God sees as an opportunity for growth. What you see as humiliating, He sees as an occasion for the development of humble leadership. It is all in how you see it. What is your perspective?
Myles Munroe
#93. Those who disrupt their industries change consumer behavior, alter economics, and transform lives.
Heather Simmons
#94. At Lead Star, we believe that leadership can help you create a better workplace, a better life, and a better you.
Courtney Lynch
#95. When you see an obstacle approaching, grab your courage and speed up.
Angela Lynne Craig
#96. One thing is undeniably clear. We have all had bad experiences, we have all had tragedies in our lives which help to shape who we are.
J. Loren Norris
#97. 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
#98. The fundamental characteristic that enables hidden leadership to bloom is demonstrating integrity.
Scott K. Edinger
#100. If you don't value excellence, you won't achieve excellence.
Glenn C. Stewart
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