Max De Pree Quotes

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• In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

  Max De Pree

  Motivational, Change, Leadership

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.

  Max De Pree

  Life, Beautiful, Healing

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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• The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

  Max De Pree

  Leadership, Responsibility, Reality

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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• The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?

  Max De Pree

  Leadership, Learning, Grace

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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• The leader is the servant who removes the obstacles that prevent people from doing their jobs.

  Max De Pree

  Jobs, People, Leader

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• Leaders should be able to Stand Alone, Take the Heat, Bear the Pain, Tell the Truth, and Do What's Right

  Max De Pree

  Pain, Leader, Able

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• Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do.

  Max De Pree

  Leadership, Art, Belief

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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• By ourselves we suffer serious limitations. Together we can be something wonderful.

  Max De Pree

  Together We Can, Suffering, Serious

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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• The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

  Max De Pree

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Giving Up

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• We do not grow by knowing all of the answers, but rather by living with the questions.

  Max De Pree

  Knowing, Listening, Answers

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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• Above all, leadership is a position of servanthood.

  Max De Pree

  Position, Servanthood

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• Trust grows when people see leaders translate their personal integrity into organizational fidelity. At the heart of fidelity lies truth-telling and promise-keeping.

  Max De Pree

  Lying, Integrity, Heart

  Max De Pree (1997). “Leading Without Power: Finding Hope in Serving Community”, Jossey-Bass

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• The key elements in the art of working together are how to deal with change, how to deal with conflict, and how to reach our potential...the needs of the team are best met when we meet the needs of individual persons.

  Max De Pree

  Teamwork, Art, Keys

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• To be a leader means, especially, having the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of those who permit leaders to lead.

  Max De Pree

  Meaningful, Opportunity, Differences

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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• Jazz, like leadership, combines the unpredictability of the future with the gifts of individuals.

  Max De Pree

  Jazz, Individual, Unpredictability

  Max De Pree (2008). “Leadership Jazz - Revised Edition: The Essential Elements of a Great Leader”, p.7, Crown Business

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• There may be no single thing more important in our efforts to achieve meaningful work and fulfilling relationships than to learn to practice the art of communication.

  Max De Pree

  Life, Motivational, Success

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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• In addition to all of the ratios and goals and parameters and bottom lines, it is fundamental that leaders endorse a concept of persons. This begins with an understanding of the diversity of people's gifts and talents and skills. Recognizing diversity gives us the chance to provide meaning, fulfillment and purpose, which are not to be relegated solely to private life any more than such things as love, beauty and joy. The art of leadership lies in polishing and liberating and enabling those gifts.

  Max De Pree

  Art, Lying, Love Is

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• We talk about the quality of product and service. What about the quality of our relationships and the quality of our communications and the quality of our promises to each other?

  Max De Pree

  Relationship, Communication, Promise

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• Integrity in all things precedes all else. The open demonstration of integrity is essential.

  Max De Pree

  Integrity, Essentials, Demonstration

  Max De Pree (2008). “Leadership Jazz - Revised Edition: The Essential Elements of a Great Leader”, p.7, Crown Business

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• We can teach ourselves to see things the way they ARE. Only with vision can we begin to see things the way they CAN BE.

  Max De Pree

  Vision, Way, Teach

  Max De Pree (1997). “Leading Without Power: Finding Hope in Serving Community”, Jossey-Bass

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• From a leader's perspective, the most serious betrayal has to do with thwarting human potential, with quenching the spirit, with failing to deal equitably with each other as human beings.

  Max De Pree

  Betrayal, Perspective, Leader

  Max De Pree (2008). “Leadership Jazz - Revised Edition: The Essential Elements of a Great Leader”, p.27, Crown Business

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• Leadership is liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and humane way possible.

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  Humane Way, People, Liberating

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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• Change without continuity is chaos. Continuity without change is sloth-and very risky.

  Max De Pree

  Change, Sloth, Chaos

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• Understanding and accepting diversity enables us to see that each of us is needed.. It also enables us to begin to think about being abandoned to the strengths of others, of admitting that we cannot know or do everything.

  Max De Pree

  Thinking, Diversity, Understanding

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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• If you want the best things to happen in corporate life you have to find ways to be hospitable to the unusual person. You don't get innovation as a democratic process. You almost get it as an anti-democratic process. Certainly you get it as an antithetical process, so you have to have an environment where the body of people are really amenable to change and can deal with the conflicts that arise out of change an innovation.

  Max De Pree

  People, Innovation, Climate

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