… is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
– Max DePree
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Study and…
… in general, the pursuit of truth and beauty is the sphere in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
— Albert Einstein
There are some things…
… you don’t have to know how it works – only that it works. While some people are studying the roots, others are picking the fruit. It just depends on “Dare to be what you ought to be; dare to be what you dream to be; dare to be the finest you can be. The more you dare, the surer you will be of gaining just what you dare!”
– Norman Vincent Peale
It is better…
…to have one person working with you, than three working for you.
– Anon
Leadership…
…. is not about titles, positions, or flow charts. It is about one life influencing another.
– John C. Maxwell
Treat a man…
… as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The productivity and…
… competitive problems American manufactures face result from ineffective top management, petrified in place, unwilling to accept change, failing to provide vision and leadership.
– Phillip Alspach, HBR 1986
My responsibility….
… is getting all my players playing for the name on the front of the jersey, not the one on the back
– Anon
The leaders who…
.. work most effectively, it seems to me, never say ‘I’. And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say ‘I’. They don’t think ‘I’. They think ‘we’; they think ‘team’. They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but ‘we’ gets the credit…. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.
– Peter F. Drucker
If you make…
…people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you. If you really make them think, they’ll hate you
– Don Marquis
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