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Leaders Quotes by Tom Peters
- Leaders' careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.
- The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.
- Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the…
- Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
- Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
- The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
- Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.
- The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.
- Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are…
- Leaders trust their guts. "Intuition" is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a "soft"…
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- Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing… — Chinua Achebe
- The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond. — Robert Baden-Powell
- Grown men do not need leaders. — Edward Abbey
- Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way… — Abu Bakar Bashir
- But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour. — Abu Bakar Bashir
- All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these leaders instead… — Martha Beck
- Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right. — Warren G. Bennis
- Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. — Warren G. Bennis
- Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth. — Warren G. Bennis
- Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. — Warren G. Bennis
- Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line. — Warren G. Bennis