Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas?
– Margaret Thatcher
Tag Archives: Understanding
Leadership….
Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure
– Admiral Arleigh Burke,
Don’t….
Don’t necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership
– Donald Rumsfeld
The true mark…
The true mark of a leader is the willingness to stick with a bold course of action — an unconventional business strategy, a unique product development roadmap, a controversial marketing campaign — even as the rest of the world wonders why you’re not marching in step with the status quo. In other words, real leaders are happy to zig while others zag. They understand that in an era of hyper-competition and non-stop disruption, the only way to stand out from the crowd is to stand for something special.
– William Taylor
Your position…
Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others may receive your orders without being humiliated.
– Dag Hammarskjöld
You can…
You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.
– Seth Godin
Sometimes….
Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Some problems…
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well-informed just to be undecided about them
– Laurence Peter
Widespread…
Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should, therefore, be a talent for understanding, encouraging and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.
– Carl Sagan
Too little…
Too little confidence and you’re unable to act; too much confidence and you’re unable to hear.
-John Meada
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