Vision is knowing who you are, where you're going, and what will guide your journey.
Ken BlanchardRead
The biggest obstacle that stalls leaders' growth is the human ego. When leaders start to think they know it all, they stop growing.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Ego can hinder a leader's development, preventing them from learning and evolving.
This quote by Ken Blanchard emphasizes that a leader's growth and effectiveness are often compromised by their own ego. When leaders become overconfident and believe they have all the answers, they close themselves off to new ideas, feedback, and opportunities for improvement, which can ultimately stall their development and the success of their teams.
Themes
EgoLeadershipGrowthLearningHumility
In practice
Example use cases
In a leadership workshop, this quote can remind participants to stay humble.
More from Ken Blanchard
All quotes βOne of the topics I'm most passionate about is servant leadership - the greatest leaders recognize that they're here to serve, not to be served.
Ken BlanchardRead
Servant-leader ship is all about making the goals clear and then rolling your sleeves up and doing whatever it takes to help people win. In that situation, they don't work for you, you work for them.
Ken BlanchardRead
Congratulations offer more potential than cash. The amount of available cash is limited, but managers have an unlimited supply of congratulations. It's important to pay people fairly, but managers also should heap on congratulations and feed people's souls.
Ken BlanchardRead
If your employees are disengaged, and they don't take care of your customers, it doesn't matter how good your strategy is - your customers will still go somewhere else.
Ken BlanchardRead
Leadership is not about you; it's about investing in the growth of others.
Ken BlanchardRead
Similar quotes
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Seneca The YoungerRead
Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.
Margaret J. WheatleyRead
The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.
Paulo CoelhoRead
I think, at the end of the day, you do better when you tend toward being transparent, even though there's some risk.
Stanley A. McchrystalRead
Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted their troops, and there is no more serious crime in the law of war. The Army says they never leave their wounded. The Marines say they never leave even their dead. These men have left all the casualties and retreated behind a pious shield of public rectitude. They have left the real stuff of their reputation bleaching behind them in the sun in this country.
John F. KerryRead
They say not everyone can be MGR. I agree. MGR is a revolutionary. Not in a 1,000 years can there be another MGR. If anyone says he will be the next MGR, he is insane. But I have the confidence that I can give the government that MGR gave to the people of Tamil Nadu.
RajinikanthRead