One of the best ways to see how critical being present is to effective leadership is to notice what being absent, distracted,… — Mark Goulston Copy Share Image
If Barack Obama now, or some black person in the future, should become president, neither Jesse Jackson nor Al Sharpton would be… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As a leader it is your job to protect the missional integrity of the Jesus gathering to which you have been called.… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
Leaders are active instead of reactive, shaping ideas instead of responding to them. Leaders adopt a personal and active attitude toward goals.… — Abraham Zaleznik Copy Share Image
In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don't mean the criminals. For them we… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Executives are doers; they execute. Knowledge is useless to executives until it has been translated into deeds. But before springing into action,… — Harvard Business School Press Copy Share Image
People take the lazy way out, and do not regard Putin and the Kremlin as the real enemy. They create a long… — Mikhail Khodorkovsky Copy Share Image
Often it is hard. So hard, in fact, that Jesus' decree to love and pray for our opponents is regarded as one… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I will become… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
In some ways, I saw the garden as a metaphor for certain aspects of my life. A leader must also tend his… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
No institutions in modern society are better equipped to catalyze the necessary transition to a sustainable world than colleges and universities. They… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
The Conservative Party isn't electing a leader in opposition after losing a general election who can build up over five years and… — Chris Grayling Copy Share Image
“The hope of leadership lies in the capacity to deliver disturbing news and raise difficult questions in a way that people can… — Martin Linsky Copy Share Image
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war The mobilization order… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the good citizen should… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The best behaviors one can hope for come from leaders who can weigh the benefits of cooperation, and who have long enough… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
As long as you remember that if you get involved in politics, you have to be very careful that your leader is… — Siraj Wahhaj Copy Share Image
The most valuable "currency" of any organization is the initiative and creativity of its members. Every leader has the solemn moral responsibility… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
“People don't expect perfection, but they do appreciate when they see leaders who sincerely try to improve and ask for help in… — Amy Fenton Lee Copy Share Image
I'm a pastor of a local church. I'm not a televangelist. I've never had a televised program. I'm a pastor. A pastor's… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Words have consequences, and I judge people not only by their words but what they do. And if you look at people… — Joan Walsh Anglund Copy Share Image
A team leader must be assertive & innovative.Effective team leader brings the best out of their colleagues & accomplish the goal they… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
“Leadership begins inside of you. Leadership is about you, the people you influence and a belief that you can make a difference… — Thomas Narofsky Copy Share Image
Investing in women, helping women to achieve their dreams, sending young girls to college. Trying to train young girls to be leaders.… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
What had the board been doing when they see these things happening. I mean, you can write a law that says you… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
He will be England captain one day. Jack Wilshere is a real leader. I saw how he spoke with the referee and… — Fabio Capello Copy Share Image
I never endorsed Donald Trump or any of the candidates who are running for the nomination that would make them the leader… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
“For all the talk about the need to be a likable "team player," many people work in a fairly cutthroat environment that… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles, and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion; and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Part of my platform is, of course, the guilty must be punished and that we no longer let our children see their… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
The establishment uses that rationale all the time, and that's why we do what we do. But leadership requires some understanding that… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
The New Deal never rethought the draconian racist immigration restriction policies of the 20s, of course, but its electoral base rested significantly… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
USE this time of fresh beginnings. Use it as an impetus, the force or energy toward change. Become stronger, a better leader,… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
The aim of leadership should be to improve the performance of man and machine, to improve quality, to increase output, and simultaneously… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
I say, 'Get me some poets as managers.' Poets are our original systems thinkers. They contemplate the world in which we live… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
The obscenities of this country are not girls like you. It is the poverty which is obscene, and the criminal irresponsibility of… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
I worked with the Nato Military Committee. The Head of the Luxembourg Armed Forces had equal standing with me, and I had… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Leadership contains certain elements of good management, but it requires that you inspire, that you build durable trust. For an organization to… — Stanley A. McChrystal Copy Share Image