Quotes of: Democratic-leaders Keyword

Leaders need to correct for cognitive biases the way a sharpshooter corrects for wind velocity or a yachtsman corrects for the tide.

The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

followers have a very clear picture of what they want and need from the most influential leaders in their lives: trust, compassion, stability, and hope

Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow

All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these leaders instead of their own purpose attach to the spiritual leader and become fanatical and controlling. That's why Je...

Martha Beck

My dad taught me to be a leader or a follower, and he said follower ain't fun. So I want to be the leader of Bubba Watson.

Bubba Watson

Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.

Chip Conley

If I can inspire some leaders, that would be great. I don't know if I want to be a leader.

Joe Wurzelbacher

Great leaders communicate a vision that captures the imagination and fires the hearts and minds of those around them.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

Rosalynn Carter

Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.

Reed Hastings

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Theodore Roosevelt

Transformational leaders are important because they make choices that most other leaders would not.

Joseph Nye

I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.

Dustin Diamond

Instead of waiting for a leader you can believe in, try this: Become a leader you can believe in.

Stan Slap

Every single achievement you make, every single life you change and every single skill you acquire brings you one step closer to becoming a better leader. Every day you can improve the leader in you to become a better person and a greater leader.

Flashes of Thought

A true leader is not meant to be greeted with unanimous praise by his people. A leader is meant to be questioned, to be suspect, to be hated. If he is not, then one can easily assume that either he has not challenged his abilities as a leader by maki...

The Black Banner

The leader’s Attitude is like a thermostat for the place she works. If her attitude is good, the atmosphere is pleasant, and the environment is easy to work in. But if her attitude is bad, the temperature is insufferable.

The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization

Bailey might not have great intelligence or abilities, but his whole aim, thought and study was that of the born leader--to look out for himself; and he did it with that born-leader's confidence and intensity that draws along the ordinary uncertain m...

The Just and the Unjust

The actions of a leader are always criticised by scholars as well as common men. A scholar has no obligation to produce result, so he is free to rebuke leaders for not sticking to noble means. Common men envy leaders their position and power, thus fe...

The Secret Red Book of Leadership

The primary value in value-based leadership is other-centredness - to be more concerned about other people and the organization than oneself. So in other words, the leader's job is to fulfil the agenda, the role, and the vision of the organization, n...

John Ng

Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF: BAD? It can't be done, not from the air, anyway! Commodore Jensen: You're quite sure of that, Squadron Leader? This is important. Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF: So's my life! To me, anyway, and the lives of ...

The Guns of Navarone

Never let your Enemies become your Advocates.” by A. K. Hasan

Gladiator Leaders: Don't Drink the Laced Drink