When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.
Interpretation
Leadership involves responsibility, not privilege.
This quote by Jack Welch emphasizes that being a leader is not about enjoying power or status, but rather about the duty to help others reach their full potential. It conveys the idea that true leadership is measured by the positive impact one has on their team and community.
In practice
During a team meeting, you can quote this to remind everyone that leadership is about supporting each other's growth.
You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
I wanted to change the rules of engagement, asking for more- from fewer. I was insisting that we had to have only the best people...If you wanted excellence, at a minimum, the ambience had to reflect excellence.
A leader's role is not to control people or stay on top of things, but rather to guide, energize and excite.
Control your own destiny or someone else will.
The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don't like to use the word efficiency. It's creativity. It's a belief that every person counts.
An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.
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.
The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.
I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.
In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.
Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.
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