Leadership Quotes

LEADERSHIP: Lead by Example Encourage the Heart Appreciate Diversity Develop People’s Potential Enable and Empower Realist Serve Help/Coach Where Necessary Inspire a Shared Vision Process Challenger

Go to the people Learn from them Love them Start with what they know Build on what they have But of the best leaders When their task is accomplished Their work is done The people will remark: “We have done it ourselves.”

Eight Tactics to Make a Sudden Impact When Assuming a New Leadership Position: 1. Begin your transition before you start the job. 2. Travel widely, listen carefully, look for patterns in everything you see and hear. 3. As you ask questions, look for the rising stars whom you want as part of your team. 4. Don?? trash your predecessor, but don?? be shy about promoting your change agenda. 5. Settle on a few major priorities. You can?? fix everything at once. 6. Target a few early wins. Momentum counts, and nothing succeeds like success. 7. Keep an eye on the clock. Faster is almost always better. 8. Don?? be afraid to make mistakes, but be sure to fix them faster than you make them.

Your job gives you authority. Your behavior gives you respect.

You very best people will respond to what you actually do, what you evidently measure, and what you openly reward — every single time.

You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no long in your power – he’s free again.

You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.

You don’t empower people with a “Mandate.”

You can’t be a leader if you can’t influence others to act.

You can only lead others where you yourself are willing to go.

Which way did they go? How many were there? How fast were they going? I must find them; I am their leader.

When you treat people like adults, 95% act like adults.

When pulling a sled, unless you are the lead dog, all of the scenery looks the same.

When team members regard each other with mutual respect, differences are utilized and are considered strengths rather than weaknesses. The role of the leader is to foster mutual respect and build a complementary team where each strength is made productive and each weakness irrelevant.

What’s important as a leader is not what happens when you are there. It’s what happens when you’re NOT there.

What gets measured gets done; what gets recognized gets done even better.

What gets recognized gets done and what gets rewarded gets repeated.

What does the organization, my stakeholders, need me to be today: a coach, a teacher, a decision maker, a supporter, a listener, a pilgrim, a servant, someone who makes waves?

We get our power from the people we lead, not from our stars and our bars.

We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo … excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.

We are only as effective as our people’s perception of us.

We are reluctant to let go of the belief that if I am to care for something I must control it.

Unlike top management at Enron, exemplary leaders reward dissent. They encourage it. They understand that, whatever momentary discomfort they experience as a result of being told they might be wrong, it is more than offset by the fact that the information will help them make better decisions.

Ultimately, leadership development is a process of self development.

Trust is a risk game. The leader must ante up first.

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can be and should be, and he will become as he can and should be.

Truly great leaders spend as much time collecting and acting upon feedback as they do providing it.

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

To get a feel for the true essence of leadership, assume everyone who works for you is a volunteer.

To demonstrate servant leadership, get a brush, shine someone else’s shoes, give them a hug.