Leadership Development Quotes

Africa is crying out for entrepreneurial leaders & for leaders who are entrepreneurial.

~ Onyi Anyado

Entrepreneur, your either raising the bar of excellence or your exhaling at the bar which is expensive.

~ Onyi Anyado

You will never see an eagle of distinction flying low with pigeons of mediocrity.

~ Onyi Anyado

When a leader is at their limit the last thing they want to hear is that they need to change even more. Maintaining good rhythms of rest, exercise and fun create more energy for a leader to be willing and open for change.

~ Gary Rohrmayer

No two snowflakes are alike and neither are the Soldier's in your charge. Don't make the mistake of treating your Soldier's like tangible things instead of the valued human assets they are.

~ Donavan Nelson Butler

Learning to accept help from others is not a sign of weakness it's a badge of courage reflecting mutual trust between the giver and the receiver.

~ Donavan Nelson Butler

Every leader will hit a series of plateaus in their lives. The key is not to say there, because settling on a plateau can easily lead to an elongated season of comfort. Being comfortable is one of the leader's worst enemies

~ Gary Rohrmayer

If you can lead yourself when nobody is following, people will follow when you are not leading

~ Saji Ijiyemi

A boss in essence is every woman willing to try, push, succeed, fail but ultimately do the work in her lifescape to make her mark on the world the way she wants to draw it.

~ Jaha Knight

Learn from your experiences and past mistakes, assimilate them and convert them to formulas to achieve sustenance first , and then work your way to success to be the leaders in the market.

~ Henrietta Newton Martin

I believe leaders should be questioning machine, rather than an answering machine.

~ Saji Ijiyemi

Those who disrupt their industries change consumer behavior, alter economics, and transform lives.

~ Heather Simmons

Truth be told, nobody thought Dell’s direct business model would work, at least back in the early 90s. As Bill Sharpe, head of the advertising agency that held the Dell Canada account from 1996 to 2006, told me, “I had a business partner in California who said, we have a client, Dell. It sells computers over the phone, and ships them to you. I said, ‘There’s no way, who’s gonna buy a computer over the phone? They’re complicated.

~ Heather Simmons

Truth be told, nobody thought Dell’s direct business model would work, at least back in the early 90s. As Bill Sharpe, head of the advertising agency that held the Dell Canada account from 1996 to 2006, told me, “I had a business partner in California who said, we have a client, Dell. It sells computers over the phone, and ships them to you. I said, ‘There’s no way. Who’s gonna buy a computer over the phone? They’re complicated.

~ Heather Simmons

Leadership is bringing people into new realms of excellence and challenging them to become distinguished in their chosen field.

~ Onyi Anyado

We never have as great an opportunity to show self-comfort as when others around us aren’t. Hint: Don’t be a jerk because someone else is. Praise the behaviors in others that you most want to flourish.

~ Kare Anderson

Leaders can hold onto busyness like a weapon of protection.

~ Angela Lynne Craig

Good management has considerable impact on engagement levels of the employees and drives them towards excellent performances.

~ Abhishek Ratna

Authenticity requires us to slow down. Fast times require us to slow down. To be effective, we need to slow down our pace of thought and action and focus on managing our attention. To be authentic leaders we need to act from intention and choice rather than from habit and impulse.

~ Henna Inam

It is only through dialogue, deep listening, and passionate disagreement that we find our way to something larger than a singular and isolated point of view.

~ Henry Kimsey-House

Authenticity is not possible without embracing the “and” within us. Our minds like to categorize things into neatly labeled boxes. Am I right, or is she right? Let’s stretch our minds to I can be right and so can she. Embracing the “and” is like yoga for the brain. When we train ourselves to hold paradoxes by stretching ourselves out of the boxes our minds create, we stretch into new possibilities and adapt more quickly in a fast-changing world.

~ Henna Inam

The first step out of the gate has to be knowing where you want to end up. What do you really want from your company?

~ Stan Slap

Develop your leaders into a competitive advantage. Reconnect your leader-power to success.

~ Gene Morton

The key to organizational success is to integrate next generation of leaders, tap into their way of looking at the world, solve problems in a very collaborative working style.

~ Pearl Zhu

Leaders who nurture followers to be leaders, keep leading even when they retire, and they keep winning the admiration of leading leaders

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

In leadership that 20/20 vision sometimes becomes 20/40 or 30/50 depending on how close you are to the situation. To my AG Warrior I may never meet thank you for your efforts in writing the prescription to reestablish the 20/20 for the good of the group.

~ Donavan Nelson Butler

Educated idiots are the most fearsome creatures in a leadership structure because even though trained they still refuse to think.

~ Donavan Nelson Butler

Our journeys are different but we can share the same well traveled path during parts of our excursion. Small victories win wars not single battles.

~ Donavan Nelson Butler

Being a leader doesn't mean you always have to be in charge. Sometimes leaders make certain others have the right information at the right time to lead the charge or pull back to fight another day.

~ Donavan Nelson Butler

The saddle is off and the rest of this ride will be bareback. Code for it's gonna be a tough ride to the finish.

~ Donavan Nelson Butler

If a leader works hard to break the spirit of their Soldier they'll soon meet the most focused Soldier of a career.

~ Donavan Nelson Butler

A leader is skating up hill on a slippery slope when Servant Leadership is not part of a leaders philosophy.

~ Donavan Nelson Butler

You can't fake a great steak nor can you convince a raging bull to give you a easy eight second ride.

~ Donavan Nelson Butler

Beware of simple solutions, they often lead to complex problems.

~ Bobby Hoffman

There are circumstances which can only be created and remedied in a crucible of fury, fire, and destruction like the serotinous cones of the Jack Pine and Lodgepole Pine trees. Only after exposed to extreme heat and enormous pressures will the cone open to begin anew and flourish amongst the cleansed but desolate landscape. Also, like the unpredictable restrained power of a dormant volcano storing it's potential energy over long periods of time gives way to this planets most enchanting display of scenic beauty to stark nightmarish backdrops. Egos are like wildfires to me because they start small but uncontrolled they will get out-of-hand and devour without prejudice. However, egotistical people are part of life and the best defense is a good offense with fire breaks dug in advance anticipation and left in place for when the right conditions present themselves where you must decide to fight that fire or be consumed by it.

~ Donavan Nelson Butler

Its been my experience during my military career that a leader displaying a THIRST for power will ultimately have a APPETITE for destruction to go along with it.

~ Donavan Nelson Butler

Leading your Soldiers with the safety on as a condition of your own personal complacency is no different than running into battle with your firearm on safe yelling BANG BANG BANG!!! An Army leaders unlimited source of ammo are the Army Values and the Warrior Ethos.

~ Donavan Nelson Butler

Self Care is the secret ingredient to Soldier care in a recipe that yields many servings of effective leadership.

~ Donavan Nelson Butler

Excuses are most valuable to the person making them but to everyone else its foreign currency with little value or not accepted at all. You are not good with me until your integrity check clears.

~ Donavan Nelson Butler

Never put your business in the hands of one person or a select few. People leave. People die. People forget.

~ Liz Weber