Leadership Quotes

The most feared situation is to end up inadvertently in the wrong place at the wrong time and get blamed. Yet this is exactly what happens in a structure that systematically diffuses responsibility. It is because managers fear blame-time that they diffuse responsibility; however such a diffusion inevitably means that someone, somewhere is going to become a scapegoat when things go wrong.

~ Robert Jackall

My first grade nun had instructed me that from those to whom much is given, much is expected. I was learning that this lesson had to be combined with Shakespeare's wisdom that one must 'to thine own self be true.' Add to this humility, empathy, a sense of curiosity, courage, and plain old hard work, and I was finally seeing the real path to leadership. Of course, humor is always a plus. (158)

~ Jacqueline Novogratz

Leadership is fundamentally about credibility.

~ Rick Crossland

We thrive when we are pulled by the future, not pushed by the past.

~ Crystal Kadakia

Despite the continual rise of the knowledge worker over the last 60 years, we haven’t done enough to question “how we’ve always done things” and redefine effectiveness in organizations.

~ Crystal Kadakia

I am not afraid of how the LGTB community reacts on Christians, but how Christians react back.

~ Alin Sav

Having and understanding of the 'why' will help having an understanding of the 'how'.

~ Bobby Darnell

To lead solely on the behalf of those being led is the utter pinnacle of fatherhood, and it is sad that so few ever stand on the summit.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

One of the first things you learn as a leader, whether you choose the position of have it forced upon you, is that leadership is as much about what you don't say as what you do say.

~ Fredrik Backman

Love is the surprising emotion that company builders cannot ignore.

~ Brian De Haaff

Sacrifice everything that is yours, to call up the humans in others.

~ Abhijit Naskar

O my mighty sisters and brothers, forget not that the ideal of humanity is the search of truth. In this pursuit, countless souls have sacrificed themselves in the past. And in this pursuit, countless more shall need to sacrifice themselves.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Arise O lion-heart! Awake, O great soldier! Misery has come upon the world. It is wailing for help. It is wailing for redemption. Won’t you do anything, my friend!

~ Abhijit Naskar

Caring and a sense of purpose evoke better performance than pressure and fear. The idea that only obsessive egomaniacs can produce breakthroughs is nonsense.

~ Brian De Haaff

Commerce does not have to be a ruthless, brutal enterprise that damages people’s lives. It can be a source of happiness, healing, and hope.

~ Brian De Haaff

Lovability — the capacity to earn genuine, heartfelt love and loyalty from customers — is the secret ingredient that propels a select few organizations ahead and leads not only to consistent growth and profitability but sustainable happiness for everyone involved.

~ Brian De Haaff

Lovable products, services, and companies are disrupting entire industries. They are changing the world.

~ Brian De Haaff

Self- reliance is the greatest of all virtues my friend.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' – a leader says, 'Let's go!

~ E.m. Kelly

What counts that we’re not counting?

~ Frank Sonnenberg

Facts and intuition are false opposites.Leaders should listen to their intuition and instincts and allow others to do the same because they are sub-conscious, fast ways of processing, aggregating and then accessing evidence to reach a swift conclusion.Trust your gut.

~ Phil Dourado

Self is All. (First Principle of Humanism)

~ Abhijit Naskar

Mark you, no Krishna can clear your eyes and make you look with a broader vision upon life in your march upward and onward, until the Self within you morphs into Krishna – until the Self morphs into Buddha – until the Self turns into Christ.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Only you can save yourself.

~ Abhijit Naskar

You can't dominate a network with old-style leadership.But, you can emerge, with the network's consent, as one of its leaders, regardless of your formal position or job title.

~ Phil Dourado

There is an interplay between great leadership, events, trends, the organization, the people in it, the market 'out there' that goes far beyond one person exercising their will over others. That's not what leadership is any more.

~ Phil Dourado

Every leader attracts a different type of follower from the left or the right, from the lowest or the highest class. Every leader unwittingly attracts certain stereotypes that fuel their underlying agenda.

~ Anita B. Sulser Phd

The reason most of your staff are asleep and disengaged, is because you have boring, and bully managers, and no REAL Leaders to inspire and unleash potential.

~ Tony Dovale

To ENSURE greater success, celebrate your progess daily.

~ Tony Dovale

All leaders need to ask questions, but they also need to assist in providing answers, to bridge the gap between questions and answers.

~ Pearl Zhu

Having a title only doesn’t make one a leader; talented people without a title don’t follow blindly, they practice leadership via influence.

~ Pearl Zhu

Fear based mindsets see challenges as problems, that are dangerous and impossible. Courageous Mindsets see problems as challenges, that are possible and exciting.

~ Tony Dovale

Impossible is a perception based upon a limiting mental illusion. Possible is the belief in the potential of unseen possibility

~ Tony Dovale

REAL success, satisfaction and joy has nothing to do with owning STUFF!

~ Tony Dovale

The right mindset is the most powerful force we can use to positively change the world.

~ Tony Dovale

Courage is the belief in self, and the possible ability to prevail in the face of adversity.

~ Tony Dovale

From a leadership perspective, the liking has to be qualified and be able to garner respect.

~ Pearl Zhu

To go from Bitter to BETTER, means you need to turn your I onto an E, by embracing WE.

~ Tony Dovale

Bad Culture is the contaminated oxygen your staff breath, as they get indoctrinated by your limiting context.

~ Tony Dovale

Culture is the constant constraint that controls creativity, commitment, collaboration, and cohesion.

~ Tony Dovale