Quotes on Team 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.

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.

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

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Earn your leadership every day.

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.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

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.