If officers desire to have control over their commands…

Leadership is the sum of those qualities of intellect, human understanding, and moral character that enables a person to inspire and control a group…

— John A. Lejeune

I believe that leaders and leadership teams working together in a proper design will run the business more effectively than by hierarchical, command-and-control managing.…

— Marvin Bower

In the military we are always looking for ways to leverage up our forces. Having greater communications and command and control over your forces…

— Colin Powell

Working with the UN's diplomacy and development arms, we can prevent minor differences from escalating into wars. When conflicts do break out, UN peacekeepers…

— Bill Bradley

The study of how substances alter gene expression is part of the field of epigenetics. Some chemical exposures appear to turn on and turn…

— Sandra Steingraber

The budget for nuclear forces in the United States is on the order of $25 billion or so. That includes warheads, delivery systems, command…

— John Burroughs

We could still have continued the arms race, but the arms race was pointless, and it was another reason we decided to start perestroika.…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Many companies operate from more of a command-and-control environment - they decide what's going to happen at headquarters and have the organization execute. That…

— Meg Whitman

Instead of command and control, managing the creative process is about facilitating and permitting.

— John Kao

For so long, companies were run using a command-and-control, 'top down' hierarchical method that involved dictating down the command chain and maintaining order. What…

— Kevin Allen

As a sensitive and highly intuitive person in the command-and-control corporate world, I always felt miscast.

— Kevin Allen

There's increasing consciousness that a "command and control" style of management which one associates with a male model isn't necessarily what works anymore, especially…

— Betty Friedan

To put it another way, I believe that purpose and principle, clearly understood and articulated, and commonly shared, are the genetic code of any…

— Dee Hock

A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.

— Polybius

Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.

— Colin Powell