Thoughts and actions Quotes by Abraham Zaleznik

If you want to understand entrepreneurs, you have to study the psychology of the juvenile delinquent. They don't have the same anxiety triggers that…

— Abraham Zaleznik

Leaders are active instead of reactive, shaping ideas instead of responding to them. Leaders adopt a personal and active attitude toward goals. The influence…

— Abraham Zaleznik

Keep focused on the substantive issues. To make a decision means having to go through one door and closing all others.

— Abraham Zaleznik

Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.

— Abraham Zaleznik

Leadership requires using power to influence the thoughts and actions of other people.

— Abraham Zaleznik

Imagination in business is the ability to perceive opportunity.

— Abraham Zaleznik

Innovation grows out of membership and a sure sense of responsibility people feel for their work and the organizations that employ them.

— Abraham Zaleznik