Leaders…

Leaders must pick causes they won’t abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter.

– Rosabeth Moss Kanter

You need…

You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.

– Warren Bennis

If…

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it.

– Maya Angelou

You cannot…

You cannot build an adaptable organisation without adaptable people and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.

– Gary Hamel

Leadership…

Leadership is an individual sport, one that has to be fine-tuned to each of the people that reports to you. Leaders also need to provide the direction, energy, encouragement and inspiration for each person who reports directly to the leader as well as for the overall organisation.

– David Petraeus

If…

If you are to be trusted your followers must have confidence in both your competence and your intention

– Anon

Communication…

Communication and change are inseparable. Without communication change initiatives are doomed to fail.

– Anon

If…

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behaviour.

– Katherine Hepburn

When…

When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

– Haruki Murakami,

I know…

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

– Queen Elizabeth II