Quotes on Strategic Leadership

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

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.

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

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

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.