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Leadership Quotes

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Empowering others is essentially the process of turning followers into leaders.

Empowerment is the process of increasing an individual’s belief in his or her effectiveness.

Empowerment: Recognizing that people already have power through their knowledge, experience and motivation, and then creating an environment that encourages letting that power out.

Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

Effective team leaders adjust their style to provide what the group can’t provide for itself.

– Kenneth Blanchard

Effective team leaders realize they neither know all the answers, nor can they succeed without the other members of the team.

– Katzenbach & Smith

Efficiency tends to deal with “Things”. Effectiveness tends to deal with “People”. We manage “Things” we lead “People”.

Education makes a people difficult to drive, but easy to lead; impossible to enslave, but easy to govern.

– Lorn Brougham

Don’t be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgement.

– Colin Powell

Dont make them in your image. Dont even try. My assistants dont look alike, think alike, or have the same personalities. And I sure dont want them thinking the way I do. You dont strive for sameness, you strive for balance.

– Bear Bryant

Cooperation with others. Perception, experience, tenacity. Know when to lead and when to follow.

– Deng Ming-Dao

Communicate everything to your associates. The more they know, the more they care. Once they care, there is no stopping them.

Coaching isn’t an addition to a leader’s job, it’s an integral part of it.

– George S. Odiorne

Come to the edge, he said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came. He pushed them … and they flew.

– Guillaume Apollinaire

Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.

– John Whitmore

Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Being honest and open is the only way to convince cynical employees that you truly want to establish a partnership with them.

– Florence M. Stone

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.

– Margaret Thatcher

Be willing to make decisions. That’s the most important quality in a good leader.

– General George S. Patton, Jr.

Be ENTHUSIASTIC as a leader. You can’t light a fire with a wet match!

Are you a ‘serving’ leader or a ‘self-serving’ leader?

As a leader, you set the tone for your entire team. If you have a positive attitude, your team will achieve much more.

– Colin Powell

As a team leader, create teams who: Care, Cooperate & are Committed.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the quality of his actions, and the integrity of his intent.

A seeing-eye dog is trained not always to do as it is told if what it is told doesn’t make sense.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

– Dwight D. Eisenhower

A real leader, through actions and words, has the ability to motivate others to their highest level of achievement; then gives them the opportunity and the freedom to grow.

A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.

A loyal constituency is won when people … judge the leader to be capable of solving their problems and meeting their needs.

– John Gardner

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