The test of organisation is not genius. It is its capacity to make common people achieve uncommon performance.
– Peter F. Drucker
Tag Archives: Influence
Incredible change…
Incredible change happens when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.
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Leadership…
Leadership is the ability to guide others without force into a direction or decision that leaves them still feeling empowered and accomplished.
– Lisa Hanson
Leadership…
Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.
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If you are…
If you are entrusted with bringing about change, you will likely possess the knowledge needed to advance the organisation and you might have a plan — but knowledge is not enough. You have to bring yourself to each interaction in a deeply authentic way. People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
– Doug Conant
Managers…
Managers who don’t lead are quite discouraging, but leaders who don’t manage don’t know what’s going on. It’s a phoney separation that people are making between the two.
– Henry Mintzberg
Who…
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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Leadership is…
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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Future shock….
Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time
– Alvin Toffler
To step…..
To step beyond the thresh-hold of the fear that lies within is the destiny of those blessed with leadership
– Paradigms of Leadership
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