Who succeeds in forming and leading a great group? They are almost always a pragmatic dreamers. They are people who get things done and they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.
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The most difficult step is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. Your fears are paper tigers; you can do anything you decide to do
– Amelia Earhart
When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change
– George Bernard Shaw
Leadership is not magnetic personality; that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not “making friends and influencing people”; that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations
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Business requires understanding financial matters, but management is different from running the financial aspects of the business – it requires understanding complex systems, how they operate, the nature of organisations, what happens when people interact in groups and how to motivate and guide people.
– Rosabeth Moss Kanter
I believe the real difference between success and failure in a corporation can be very often traced to the question of how well the organisation brings out the great energies and talents of its people
– Thomas J Watson
If you feel like it’s difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding
– Andrea Jung
