The greatest gift a leader can get is the gift of feedback. When someone takes the time to pause, reflect on what’s happened, and communicate back what they saw and heard, and how it made them feel and act – they have offered the greatest gift of all.
– Janeen Latini
Silence – not dissent – is the one answer that leaders should refuse to accept.
– Warren G. Bennis
If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn’t be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.
– Warren G Bennis
A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader
– Fred Wilson
Leadership is not a starring role. True leadership describes the unified action of leaders and followers working together to jointly achieve mutual goals. It is collaborative.
– Gilbert Fairholm
Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.
– Warren G Bennis
The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humour, discipline, courage, self-sufficiency and confidence.
– James Fisher
All organisations are perfectly designed to get the results they are now getting.
If we want different results, we must change the way we do things.
– Tom Northup
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.
– Steve Jobs
Whether there are innately female leadership styles… is not really the right question. It is more important to ask why there has been so little attention paid to women leaders over the years as well as why the styles of leading more often exhibited by women are particularly useful at this critical moment in history.
– Charlotte Bunch
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