… nothing like a concrete life plan to weigh you down. Because if you always have one eye on some future goal, you stop paying attention the the job at hand, miss opportunities that might arise, and stay fixedly on one path, even when a better, newer course might have opened up.
– Indra Nooyi
… can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them.
– Brandon Sanderson
… you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
…. is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt
– Orlando Battista
…afraid to fail…. be afraid not to try
– Anon
… many elements to a campaign.Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
– Bernd Brecher
… as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
… and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.
– Harvey S. Firestone
… has to be able to change an organisation that is dreamless, soulless and visionless… someone’s got to make a wake up call.
– Warren Bennis
… of a leader is the willingness to stick with a bold course of action — an unconventional business strategy, a unique product-development roadmap, a controversial marketing campaign — even as the rest of the world wonders why you’re not marching in step with the status quo. In other words, real leaders are happy to zig while others zag. They understand that in an era of hyper-competition and non-stop disruption, the only way to stand out from the crowd is to stand for something special.
– Bill Taylor
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