There are two sure ways to fail: never get started and quit before you succeed.
Many companies promote the language of risk-taking and innovation but are so concerned with short term profit goals that their culture discourages innovation (trying new things) and abandons promising projects too soon. It shouldn’t require exceptional moral courage to try new things and stick with them.
– Michael Josephson
Leadership is the ability to guide others without force into a direction or decision that leaves them still feeling empowered and accomplished.
– Lisa Hanson
Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It’s about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others’ success, and then standing back and letting them shine.
– Chris Hadfield
If you’re doing something outside of dominant culture, there’s not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.
– Ava Duvernay
The way you sustain and improve upon a culture is by fostering a sense of gratitude for what is best about it. You celebrate the good in your story while putting the bad in the correct context.
– Jonah Goldberg
How poor are they that have not patience? What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
– William Shakespeare
The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it’s to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they’re valued.
– Ken Robinson
I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.
– Rob Lowe
The role of leaders is not to exercise power but to share power amongst those being led
– Anon
The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it’s to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they’re valued.
– Ken Robinson
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