Quotes on Effective Leadership

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

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 equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Charisma is the result of effective leadership, not the other way around.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership.

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.