Top Down Leadership Quotes

#1. I became Iggy because I had a sadistic boss at a record store. I'd been in a band called the Iguanas. And when this boss wanted to embarrass and demean me, he'd say, 'Iggy, get me a coffee, light.'

Iggy Pop

#2. Top-down leaders, by withholding power from those in the ranks, deprive them of the ability to use the expertise and information vested in them to respond directly and with speed to customer concerns.

Sally Helgesen

#3. Even now ... she [Kit] still had a need to believe that most people, that most of life, was good. That belief was a sort of strength, too.

Vicki Pettersson

#4. linguist called Alla who advised us, among other things, to treat our more stupid students with sympathy, "as if they had cancer." While

Elif Batuman

#5. Come on, Eden, don't be naive. Demonic children are a dime a dozen in Netherworld. Need I mention Children of the Corn? Damien? Justine Bieber?

Michelle Rowen

#6. In this room we're all here together, but there's probably a lot of different views, people sitting here thinking, I don't own any slaves, all the slaves are dead. Why am I responsible? My family were immigrants, too.

Johnnie Cochran

#7. [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

#8. China's reform and opening-up programme and Europe's integration process have both contributed significantly to global peace, development, and prosperity. China firmly supports the integration of Europe and regards the E.U. as a strategic partner that deserves our confidence.

Li Keqiang

#9. When God and spirituality are reduced to our standards or our feelings, God will never be to us the awesome Holy One of Israel. With God reduced in our eyes, a fear of people will thrive.

Edward T. Welch

#10. Leadership must be established from the top down.

Sam Nunn

#11. Even now, after Nick had caused me pain, the truth was I didn't want to cause him any. Wasn't that love, after all?

Laura Dave

#12. Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to looking after your people and ensuring that, from top to bottom, everyone feels part of the team.

Frederick W. Smith

#13. Believing is seeing. It's much more effective than the old notion that seeing is believing.

Terrence E. Deal

#14. Change from the top down happens at the will and whim of those below.

Peter Block

#15. The Lord wants double edged artistry, praising God's name and setting things straight.

Calvin Seerveld

#16. She was a finisher, unlike them -- she didn't wait for leaves to fall and see where they'd land, or even waste time anticipating which way the wind would blow them. No, she was the storm that ripped the leaves from trees and determined their path...
-SHEgo, 2010

Tania Zaverta Chance

#17. Science is advanced by proposing and testing hypothesis, not by declaring questions unsolvable.

Nick Matzke

#18. Jenna swallowed the lump in her throat. "Good evening, gentlemen."
"You'll be hard pressed to find a gentleman in this bunch," a forty-something guy with close-cropped white hair said, laughing.
She walked closer to the group and held out her hands in apology. "Sorry, didn't mean to offend.

Aria Kane

#19. Your eyes remained haunted. Seeing something in the world that your mirth can not dissolve." I

Tillie Cole