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Quotes about LeadershipThese quotes about leadership are organized in this order: 1) Change Management Enjoy … –––~~~••• O •••~~~––– 1) Quotes about leadership - Change Management The only safe ship in a storm is leadership. Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things. Most of the CEO’s who fail think they will find the solution to their problems in Finance, Marketing, Strategic Planning, etc., but they don’t look for the solution to their problems inside themselves. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. 2) Quotes about leadership - Clarity Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand. If the CEO’s behavior is 95 per cent healthy while the rest of the organization is only 50 per cent sound, it is more effective to focus on that crucial and leveraged 5 per cent that makes up the reminder of the CEO’s behavior. The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. 3) Quotes about leadership - Effectiveness Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it. Managers are people who do things right - while leaders are people who do the right thing. 4) Quotes about leadership - Humility When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say, “It happened naturally.” Good leaders must first become good servants. 5) Quotes about leadership - Humor Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men - the other 999 follow women. Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too. 6) Quotes about leadership - Legacy The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. 7) Quotes about leadership - Management You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership. I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles - but today it means getting along with people. Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management - and politics to mere technique. The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. 8) Quotes about leadership - Paradoxical Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach. 9) Quotes about leadership - Personal Wisdom The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do. The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. Leaders aren't born - they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal. 10) Quotes about leadership - Universal Truths Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Inventories can be managed, but people must be led. If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants. All Leadership is influence. –––~~~••• O •••~~~––– I hope these quotes are an inspiration, a guide, and a source of positive change in your personal and professional life. To learn about the skills you need to manage the performance of your direct reports, go to my Management Skills page. To learn about the skills you need to lead the performance of your entire organization, go to my Leadership Skills page. To learn about other useful skills, go to my More Skills page. If you would like your organization to put into practice the meaning of some of these quotes about leadership through my speaking, training or consulting services, please click on this link. My Privacy Policy: Skills2Lead™ recognizes your right to protection of all personal information you share with me – I adhere to a strict Privacy Policy – I will never sell, lease, share, lend, or give away the information you provide to me to anyone for any purpose ever. Period. To read my full Privacy Policy, please click here.
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