I have learned that people are more motivated by what they can give than by what they can get. Yet for years we have engaged people the other way around.
– Jeremy Scrivens,
Tag Archives: Values
The greatest danger…
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
-Michelangelo
Enlightened leadership…
Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.
– Deepak Chopra
Leaders….
Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.
– Lance Morrow
Let’s…
Let’s get real, or let’s not play
– Mahan Khasla
The greatest gift…
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
Who succeeds…
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…
The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humour, discipline, courage, self-sufficiency and confidence.
– James Fisher
Your work…
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…
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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