Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic". — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The exercise of true leadership is inversely proportional to the exercise of power. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The role of the leader is to foster mutual respect and build a complementary team where each strength is made productive and… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Over time, I have come to this simple definition of leadership: Leadership is getting results in a way that inspires trust. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
If you can hire people whose passion intersects with the job, they won't require any supervision at all. They will manage themselves… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
True leadership is moral authority, not formal authority. Leadership is a choice, not a position. The choice is to follow universal timeless… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Management is clearly different from leadership. Leadership is primarily a high-powered, right-brain activity. It's more of an art it's based on a… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Effective leadership is the only competitive advantage that will endure. That's because leadership has two sides- what a person is character and… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, 'Wrong jungle!' ... Busy, efficient producers… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
When we say that leadership is a choice, it basically means you can choose the level of initiative you want to exercise… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The ability to establish, grow, extend, and restore trust is the key professional and personal competency of our time. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Leadership is communicating people's worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it themselves. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
In effective personal leadership, visualization and affirmation techniques emerge naturally out of a foundation of well thought through purposes and principles that… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
You can't have the fruits without the roots. It's the principle of sequencing: Private Victories proceed Public Victories. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation… — Stephen Covey Copy Share
Empathic listening takes time, but it doesn't take anywhere near as much time as it takes to back up and correct misunderstandings when you're… — Stephen Covey Copy Share
The fire inside people is like a match; the way to ignite that flame is initially through friction, then other matches are lit through… — Stephen Covey Copy Share
In a very real sense, there are only two roles in organisations: customers and suppliers. Everybody functions simultaneously in both roles, whether inside or… — Stephen Covey Copy Share
To blame and accuse other people, is to choose to empower them, to control us. — Stephen Covey Copy Share
If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. — Stephen Covey Copy Share
I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach. — Stephen Covey Copy Share
Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them. — Stephen Covey Copy Share
Highly proactive people don't blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice. — Stephen Covey Copy Share
When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or… — Stephen Covey Copy Share
Most people define greatness through wealth and popularity and position in the corner office. But what I call everyday greatness comes from character and… — Stephen Covey Copy Share
Contrary to what most people believe, trust is not some soft, illusive quality that you either have or you don't; rather, trust is a… — Stephen Covey Copy Share
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?... True effectiveness requires… — Stephen Covey Copy Share
