Management And Leadership Quotes

No one cultivates in a stony-ground, instead he cultivates in a soft-rich ground. Do not expect people to invest in you if you're a lazy type.

~ Godspower Oparaugo

Social context and NOT individual abilities drives performance, success or failure of a team or a project.

~ Dr. Dragos

Expressing authentic appreciation doesn’t cost you anything and the outcomes are simply wonderful.

~ Dr. Dragos

We must always be mindful of who we are being while we are leading.

~ Lolly Daskal

A delirious person would think there's only one way, and that way is simple, but the truth is no way of living is simple, and there are many ways like there are many roads, but one must think above the system, and the individual must work strong to avail enough to be satisfied.

~ John Shelton Jones

Not only in personal relationships, but also in professional life, if like minded people work together, it is a beauty to witness

~ Rajasaraswathii

Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius. (Kill them all. For the Lord knoweth them that are His. Supposedly said when asked by a Crusader how to distinguish the Cathars from the Catholics.)

~ Bishop Arnold Of Citeaux

Leadership is not about the power and status of one but the empowerment and service of all. That is what it should be and that is how it should be measured.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.

~ Colin Powell

When you master the basics, and execute them well, there’s no need to worry about the score.

~ Frank Sonnenberg

Every posting, message, or email creates an impression, a public persona, from which other people make judgments. We make judgments about others, but how often do we turn that critical analysis on ourselves?

~ Kent Alan Robinson

For every opinion, there is an equal and opposite opinion.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law...Do you understand the rights I have just read to you? With these rights in mind, do you wish to speak to me?” Most Americans adults have heard the Miranda rights from countless television and movie crime drams. The first statement of the Miranda rights is a simple but powerful declarative sentence. “You have the right to remain silent.” Not speaking will not be held against you, but the suspect is told that any words spoken “can and will be used against you in a court of law.” U.S. law provides the opportunity for reflection and protection against self-incrimination with the last sentence asking, “Do you wish to speak to me?” Reflect and ask yourself, it is wise to post or send an email containing that information?

~ Kent Alan Robinson

An organization's proprietary, internal information is constrained only by an understanding that stake-holders will keep organizational matters within the organization.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

A damaging email forwarded outside the organization is indicative of problems within the organization.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

The written word imparts a gravitas the spoken word lacks. The underlying assumption is that time and thought has been expended on what was written, even if that is not the case.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

A car crash at seventy-five miles an hour results in glass and steel strewn about the roadway. Emergency workers attend to the injured drivers, passengers and bystanders, and remove the wreckage. An electronic communication wreck lacks the visual drama, but imparts damage just as real and just as permanent. A momentary lapse in judgment may prove catastrophic for the writer, their family, coworkers, and stakeholders.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

Emails, texts and social media promise the writer the power to be heard…In a society where relinquishing control is viewed as weakness, power is relinquished through every message sent without forethought to the potential consequences.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

In the Darwinian environment of business, one's most provocative words are naturally selected by competitors to be hurled back at them at the most inopportune moments. Do not arm your adversaries.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

Neither inherently good nor evil, electronic communication platforms are 100 percent dependent on user input.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

Once a message has been sent electronically, the writer has ceded power not just to the recipient, but to whomever the recipient chooses to forward the information. To access electronic communication is to control it. The recipient, not the writer, has power over future dissemination of the writer’s words.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

Be yourself! Don’t try to fabricate your personality in the guise of impressing others.

~ Ashish Patela

Move away from the mid-set that the fulfillment of the organization's mission, vision, and strategic plan is only the work of leaders.

~ Sue Tetzlaff

Knowing that an asteroid is going to hit the earth is not really useful if you are not planning to launch missiles to knock it out of the sky. You have to work massively overtime on the belief that innovation or massive change is going to happen.' — Tom Martin, former VP of marketing

~ Heather Simmons

When manipulation flutters around everywhere, neither pull nor push anyone. Just do one thing - don't trust anyone!

~ Ashish Patel

Most people do not see their words as power.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

A single employee, with one message, can succinctly capture the essence of a corporation the same way an iconic photograph captures a moment. Unfortunately, it is usually the negative massages that are published or used in lawsuits.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

An email cannot be ignored. You may wish an email was not sent to you, because you learned what you did not want to know, but it must be acted upon because there is now a permanent record linking you to that information.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

Emails are viewed as an essential historical record of an organization. A record that cannot be expunged must be created with care or not created at all.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

Electronic communication has transmuted conversations into durable and accessible records. Revisionist history has gone the way of the phone booth.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

A pat on the back can often motivate more than currency notes!

~ Abhishek Ratna

Many people get visited by the Lord in a given time but lack the wisdom to navigate in it.

~ Paul Gitwaza

In life, you get what you believe you deserve.

~ Jay Samit

No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can't make a difference.

~ Jay Samit

At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic.

~ Jay Samit

The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact.

~ Jay Samit

Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey.

~ Jay Samit

Disruptors don't have to discover something new, they just have to discover a practical use for new discoveries.

~ Jay Samit

To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.

~ Jay Samit

No one who ever led a nation got there by following the path of another.

~ Jay Samit