It is possible for leaders or regimes to be cruel, bigoted, twisted in their world views and still make rational calculations with… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The power of the leader is given to him by the people, so he has a duty to engage and listen more… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
Your task as a leader is to help others to succeed, not to strive only for your own success. If I don't… — David Maister Copy Share Image
If you're regularly willing to give a critique, but not willing to take one, you're not a leader, you're a cynic. — Ed Stetzer Copy Share Image
Managers often hold on to resisters because of a specific skill set or because they've been around for a long time. Don't. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Serving and helping are great things, but we can go too far. Managers should not adopt poor performers. Colleagues should not cover… — John G. Miller Copy Share Image
The Islamic world is obsessed with the notion of strong leaders. This is a mistake. We don't need powerful leaders, but rather… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Authenticity is critical to leadership. That means trying to be yourself - this involves some self-disclosure, admitting what you don't know and… — Robert S. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Our efforts will only be effective if ordinary citizens in other countries have confidence that the United States respects their privacy too.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“For know you, child, I have that faculty which is better than any one sense, better than a perfect body, better than… — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
“The problem is us. We don't look up to people who have made it in life to inspire us. Wanting to know… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
“The average leader issues directions and orders, and thereafter expects things to be done automatically. In contrast, a great leader, with a… — Virender Kapoor Copy Share Image
Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're trying to tell them what… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
In order to achieve the most noble accomplishments, the leader may have to 'enter into evil.' This is the chilling insight that… — Michael A. Ledeen Copy Share Image
Nonsense prevails, modesty fails Grace and virtue turn into stupidity While the calendar fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise And… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Now we teach our leaders that it's your job to put in the systems that enable your people to run your experiments… — Scott Cook Copy Share Image
The Children's Hospital will be a credible demonstration of the commitment of African leaders to place the rights of children at the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
When you're responsible for leading a group of young people, you have to be positive. If you're not, you shouldn't be in… — Louise Wilson Copy Share Image
I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that’s cliche, I don’t know if managers… — Aaron Levie Copy Share Image
“Never reject the opportunity to take the first step. The first step is the key to obtaining the experience you have longed… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
It's going to be like herding stray cats, and the political leaders who can do it will be remembered as the same… — William H. Calvin Copy Share Image
As a leader, your job is to share your vision with your followers and either warn them of danger or highlight opportunities… — Lewis Howes Copy Share Image
“What drives society forward is having a strong backbone of people willing to do the jobs that their leaders don’t want to… — Helen Harper Copy Share Image
Leadership is learned, earned, and discerned. You develop it. It's based on trust and credibility. Others see it in you. You can't… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
To be an ethical leader is indeed to be different. This kind of leader acknowledges the complexity of running a responsible business,… — Andrew Leigh Copy Share Image
Leaders never have to ask the people to, 'Come follow me.' The people believe just by watching his lead. — Marc Marcel Copy Share Image
People have been voting to choose their leader but their votes were never allowed to COUNT, I will not allow the choice… — Muhammadu Buhari Copy Share Image
One thing I am is a leader and if I'm not allowed to lead, then I have to follow. So then I… — Baron Davis Copy Share Image
“When you lead like a Multiplier by rule, you can be a Diminisher by exception”—meaning, if you have built a strong foundation… — Liz Wiseman Copy Share Image
Now it was just the three of us: the leader, the warrior, and the kid about to wet his pants. Guess who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders. — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
You always want to try to make something new, and, of course, America is the world leader in economics today. — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin,… — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
Leadership is loud. It is quiet. It is thoughtful and emotional and cerebral and nerdy and goofy and joyful and motivating. — Julie Foudy Copy Share Image
“Management controls performance in people because it impacts skills; it’s a matter of monitoring, analyzing and directing.” — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
The goal of Latin American unity is highly ephemeral. Each country has its own set of goals and very different sets of… — Riordan Roett Copy Share Image
The future of each of us is inter-connected and all of us should work together by following the path laid down by… — Sonia Gandhi Copy Share Image
To me, the #1 key to success is 'creating lasting positive change in yourself and others.' That is what is most rare,… — Marshall Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I am absolutely delighted to give my full support to Gordon as the next leader of the Labour Party and as prime… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
“Mankind, if it is to survive, must choose its leaders by the test of their intellectuality; and, contrarily, leadership must justify itself… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
