Leader Quotes - Page 35

• Leaders are people who do the right thing: managers are people who do things right. Both roles are crucial, but they differ profoundly. I often observe people in top positions doing wrong things well.

  Warren G. Bennis

  People, Roles, Wells

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.198, John Wiley & Sons

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• Good leaders are very curious, and they spend a lot of time trying to learn things.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Trying, Curious, Good Leader

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• If you want real, significant, sustainable change, you need talented, committed local line leaders. If the line manager is not innovating, then innovation is not going to occur.

  Peter Senge

  Real, Innovation, Needs

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• A good leader does not tell people to stand behind him. That position does not give anybody power but the leader. Today's politician isn't going to be the first marching to war, so why put that guy in front? Instead, a good leader tells people to stand beside him. That creates an invincible wall of people, and that's a force where everybody stands as a true equal.

  Suzy Kassem

  Wall, War, People

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.

  John C. Maxwell

  People, Wages, May

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• Anyone can steer the ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course. Leaders who are good navigators are capable of taking their people just about anywhere.

  John C. Maxwell

  People, Ships, Courses

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You”, p.45, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Most people don't like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.

  John C. Maxwell

  People, Action, Making Changes

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• It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.

  Zig Ziglar

  Attitude, Next Day, People

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• Although the paranoiacs make the great leaders, it's the resenters who make their best instruments because the resenters, those men with cancer of the psyche, make the great assassins.

  Richard Condon

  Cancer, Men, Assassins

  Richard Condon (2005). “The Manchurian Candidate”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Our duties naturally emerge form such fundamental relations as our families, neighborhoods, workplaces, our state or nation. Make it your regular habit to consider your roles-parent, child, neighbor, citizen, leader-and the natural duties that arise from them. Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do.

  Epictetus

  Children, Parent, Roles

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• Perhaps the central task of the leader of leaders thus becomes the development of other leaders.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Tasks, Development

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• As leaders, we're giving out grades in every encounter we have with people. We can choose to give out grades as an expectation to live up to, and then we can reassess them according to performance. Or we can offer grades as a possibility to live into. The second approach is much more powerful.

  Benjamin Zander

  Powerful, People, Giving

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• The true mark of a leader is the willingness to stick with a bold course of action - an unconventional business strategy, a unique product-development roadmap, a controversial marketing campaign - even as the rest of the world wonders why you're not marching in step with the status quo.

  Bill Taylor

  Unique, Marketing, Sticks

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• It is my view that it is a big embarrassment for Africa . It is hypocritical for African leaders to talk about democracy and human rights and to be silent when these things are happening in Zimbabwe .

  Raila Odinga

  Rights, Views, Zimbabwe

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• Don't take on things you don't believe in and that you yourself are not good at. Learn to say no. Effective leaders match the objective needs of their company with the subjective competencies. As a result, they get an enormous amount of things done fast.

  Peter Drucker

  Believe, Done, Needs

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• It is a big embarrassment that a leader can say on the eve of an election that he cannot hand over power to an opponent, that he can only hand over power to a member of his political party.

  Raila Odinga

  Party, Hands, Political

  "Kenya's leader urges peacekeepers in Zimbabwe". www.cnn.com. June 24, 2008.

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• Trying to be a leader, you've got to be really sure of what you're doing and you've got to guide people the right way.

  Genndy Tartakovsky

  People, Trying, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• I can tell you who's planning terroris attacks. The leaders of ISIL. And I can tell you where they're at. They're in Raqqa, Syria. So for God's sakes, Mr. President Barack Obama , change your strategy. Come up with a ground force to go in and destroy the caliphate before we get hit here at home. That would be my advice to you.

  Rand Paul

  Home, Advice, President

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Muslim leaders around the globe have to continue working with us to decisively and unequivocally reject the hateful ideology that groups like ISIL and al Qaeda promote. To speak out against not just acts of violence, but also those interpretations of Islam that are incompatible with the values of religious tolerance, mutual respect, and human dignity.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Speaks Out, Tolerance

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The actor in me always wants to link himself to a leader who's inspired.

  Chris Bauer

  Actors, Links, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• Fascistic leaders are aggressively macho and chauvinistic. They are xenophobic about people who they portray as outsiders or some sort of threat to the nation or as weaklings they can denounce.

  Rachel Maddow

  People, Outsiders, Threat

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• Someone recently pointed out how much Barack Obama's style and strategies resemble those of Latin American charismatic despots - the takeover of industries by demagogues who never ran a business, the rousing rhetoric of resentment addressed to the masses and the personal cult of the leader promoted by the media. But do we want to become the world's largest banana republic?

  Thomas Sowell

  Latin, Media, Style

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.100, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Leaders use story to author the future.

  Robert McKee

  Stories, Use

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• To allow your organization the permission to fail is a very powerful thing. If we want to really be thought leaders and industry leaders, it doesn't come without taking risks. We're not afraid to take those risks that will get us to a better place.

  Rick Welts

  Powerful, Organization, Risk

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• You have to learn to be a follower before you become a leader.

  Charlie Munger

  Followers

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