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Leadership Quotes

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Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms.

– Warren Bennis

Leadership: It’s not something you do to people, it’s something you do with people.

Leading is Influencing, guiding in direction, course, action, opinion.

– Warren Bennis

Leadership is an activity — an influence process in which an individual gains the trust and commitment of others and without recourse to formal position or authority moves the group to the accomplishment of one or more tasks.

– Dinkmeyer and Eckstein

Leadership is just another word for training.

– Lance Secretan

Leadership is like beauty; it’s hard to define, but you know it when you see it.

– Warren Bennis

Leadership is not a position. It is a combination of something you are (character) and some things you do (competence).

– Ken Melrose

Leadership is not the private reserve of a few charismatic men and women. It is a process ordinary managers use when they are bringing forth the best from themselves and others.

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and actions.

– Harold Geneen

Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable (and which motivates them over the long haul).

Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

– Warren Bennis

Leadership happens at every level of the organization and no one can shirk from this responsibility.

– Jerry Junkins

Leadership is about change… The best way to get people to venture into unknown terrain is to make it desirable by taking them there in their imaginations.

Leaders must behave the way they wish their followers would behave.

Leaders need to strike a balance between action and patience.

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

– Vance Packard

Leadership development is a lifetime journey, not a quick trip.

– John Maxwell

Leadership does not come with detailed maps – only a general sense of direction.

Leadership flows from the minds of followers more than from the titles of leaders, more from the perception of willing followers than from anointment.

– Lane Secretan

Leaders are like eagles, they don’t flock; you find them one at a time.

Leaders are like eagles, they don’t flock; you find them one at a time.

Leaders get excited about their work and by their contagion, stimulate their (followers.) Excitement builds strong relationships and high morale throughout an organization.

Leaders manage the dream. All leaders have the capacity to create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then to translate that vision into reality.

– Warren Bennis

Law of Leadership: A successful team with 100 members has 100 leaders.

– Lance Secretan

Lead people, manage things.

Lead with your heart (leadership.) Guide with your head (management.)

– Jim Cathcart

Lead, Follow – or get the hell out of the way

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

– Plaque on Ted Turner’s desk

It’s very important all the time to tell people to do it themselves.

– Paul Fentener van Vlissingen

I’ve found that the skills that work well for one leader may not work at all for another. But the fundamental skills of leadership can be adapted to work well for just about everyone: at work, in the community, and at home.

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