Category Archives: Leadership

Sometimes…

…. I think my most important job as a CEO is to listen for bad news. If you don’t act on it, your people will eventually stop bringing bad news to your attention and that is the beginning of the end

– Bill Gates

It is….

… up to the leader to create a healthy environment where people are not afraid to fail. Mistakes should be seen as an integral part of the organizational process. They are a normal part of striving for excellence

– Andrew Harvey

 

A ‘No’ …..

…. uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble

– Mohandas Gandhi

The ultimate….

…competitive advantage of an organisation is its ability to learn

– Anon

Leaders…..

… are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach

– Rosabeth Moss Kantor

Every man….

gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, and so they give their lives to little or nothing. One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it…and then it’s gone

– Joan of Arc

Leadership is…

…. an interactive conversation that pulls people toward becoming comfortable with the language of personal responsibility and commitment

– John Agno

Try….

…not to become a man of success but a man of value

– Albert Einstein

Leadership…

… consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint

– Lewis H. Lapham

Our deepest fear…

… is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others

-Marianne Williamson