Great leaders….

Great leaders always seem to embody two seemingly disparate qualities. They are both highly visionary and highly practical.

– John C. Maxwell

Reorganisation….

Reorganisation to me is moving boxes around. Transformation means fundamentally changing the way the organization thinks, the way it responds, the way it leads.

– Lou Gerstner

People…

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that’s how they’ll react. But if you say, ‘We want peace, we want stability,’ we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

– Nelson Mandele.

Always….

Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don’t find one, it’s you.

– Mark Cuban

Leadership…

Leadership is the product of your imagination.

– Paradigms of Leadership

If you…

If your treat an individual as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The human voice…

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still, small voice of conscience.

– Mahatma Gandhi

Leadership….

Leadership is not what you know or who you know, but how to transfer what you know into the hearts and minds of who you know.

– Mike Myatt

Inside…..

Inside my empty bottle, I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.

– Charles Simic

When I…

When I talk to managers I get the feeling they are important. When I talk to leaders I get the feeling that I am important

– Alexander Den Heijer