Quotes on Leadership

They have eliminated rigidity, both physical and psychological, in order to support more fluid processes whereby temporary teams are created to deal with specific and ever-changing needs. They have simplified roles into minimal categories; they have knocked down walls and created workplaces where people, ideas, and information circulate freely.

Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it - young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous - is changed by it.

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

There is a new model of leadership in the world that rides on the premise that every single person in the organisation can be a leader. Titles are important for structure and order, but real power does not come from titles.

Effective leaders share two intertwined attributes: an unbridled level of confidence about where their organizations are headed, and the ability to bring people along.

There is no contest between the company that buys the grudging compliance of its work force and the company that enjoys the enterprising participation of its employees

There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.

First organize the inner, then organize the outer ... First organize the great, then organize the small. First organize yourself, and then organize others.

If I can't get the captains to respond appropriately and show the leadership I expect, how is anyone else going to respond?

It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.

I was raised with traditional stories of leadership: Robert E. Lee, John Buford at Gettysburg. And I also was raised with personal examples of leadership. This was my father in Vietnam. And I was raised to believe that soldiers were strong and wise and brave and faithful; they didn't lie, cheat, steal, or abandon their comrades.

It's the journey that matters. Learning is more important than the test. Practice well, and the games will take care of themselves.

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

If you're a leader, people's lives should be better because of the influence you've had along the way.

(Offensive Coach) Paul Hackett realized that Joe Montana knew more about the offense than he did, but when the meeting was over, Paul saw that Joe had taken three pages of notes. He documented exactly how Paul wanted to run the play, as well as all of the basics of it and its details. That's what a professional does.

A lot of these teams really forget that part of success comes with having veteran leadership. You see a lot of teams forget that and start letting go of these old veterans. They don't realize how important it is to have a veteran voice in your locker room or on the bench. It's important to have guys who have been there before.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow.

I don't think it's a Western thing to really talk about intrinsic motivation and the drive for autonomy, mastery and purpose. You have to not be struggling for survival. For people who don't know where their next meal is coming, notions of finding inner motivation are comical.