… creatures of their environment, but unlike most creatures, they are also movers of it. As movers of and within the organisation, they push it forward, at the same time shaping it as much as it shapes them.
– John Baldoni
Tag Archives: Leadership
Effort…
… and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
– John F. Kennedy
Without leaps…
… of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
– Gloria Steinem
A new leader…
… has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless… someone’s got to make a wake up call
– Warren Bennis
The led…
… must not be compelled. They must be able to choose their own leader.
– Albert Einstein
People will…
… forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel
– Maya Angelou
What we…
… do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world, is and remains immortal
– Albert Pine
Consensus:
…. The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: ‘I stand for consensus?’
– Margaret Thatcher
People are…
… always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.
– George Bernard Shaw
We know…
… that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership
– John Kotter
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