Transforming Leadership Quotes

#1. Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership.

James MacGregor Burns

#2. Transforming leadership, [is defined as] leadership that builds on man's need for meaning, leadership that creates institutional purpose ... he is the value-shaper, the exemplar, the maker of meanings ... he is the true artist, the true pathfinder.

Tom Peters

#3. Leaderships about transforming lives and making a difference through innovation and purpose, grounded in values and integrity

Michael Harris

#4. Meditation raises the question: Who are we really?

Ram Dass

#5. My heart pounds against my chest. Not because I'm nervous. Not even because I want her worse that I've ever wanted her before. It's pounding against my chest because I realize I've never been so sure about the rest of my life than I am in this moment. This girl is the rest of my life.

Colleen Hoover

#6. The litmus test for our success as Leaders is not how many people we are leading, but how many we are transforming into leaders

Kayode Fayemi

#7. Living Zen is nothing special: life as it is. Zen is life itself, nothing added.

Charlotte Joko Beck

#8. [My father and his friends] believed in equality for women without troubling to acquire the basic domestic skills which would have made that equality possible.

P.D. James

#9. When leadership rises to genius it has the power of transforming, of transforming experience into power. And that is what experience is for, to be made into power. The great leader creates as well as directs power.

Mary Parker Follett

#10. Transforming a team, let alone an entire organisation, from the principles of command and control to those based on servant-leadership, from plans based on prediction to plans based on empirical, evolutionary data requires both patience and tenacity.

Geoff Watts

#11. Most leadership writing today advises us on how to prosper within the system. I believe real leadership is about transforming the system.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#12. Calvin and Hobbes are the only two characters from my childhood reading that I return to with any regularity, and they have grown with me, yielding newer and deeper meaning.

Anthony Marra

#13. Happiness could be like a head cold. Or cholera.
Catching.

Julia Quinn

#14. Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.

Ernest Dimnet

#15. I think Noam Chomsky is a national treasure - make that an international treasure.

Jello Biafra