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We
call ourselves a “capacity building” organization; self-motivated and
self-initiated capacity building. For example, in 30 years, I don’t think
I have signed a check for the company.
Talal
Abu-Ghazaleh - Employee
- Motivational
- Management
- Companies
- Leadership
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise.
Mary
Kay Ash - Optimistic
- Leadership
It was when I entered the military preparatory school and put on its uniform,
that a feeling of strength came to me, as if I had become master of my own destiny.
Mustafa
Kemal Ataturk - Strength
- Leadership
The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Tony
Blair - Leadership
- Decisions
Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do
the wrong thing.
Tony
Blair - Leadership
- Winning
- Losing
In the past a leader was a boss. Today’s
leaders must be partners with their people..
they no longer can lead solely based on
positional power.
Ken
Blanchard - Leadership
- Partnership
- Power
Too many leaders act as if the sheep.. their
people.. are there for the benefit of the
shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility
for the sheep.
Ken
Blanchard - Leadership
- Responsibility
My job is a job to make decisions. I'm a
decision.. if the job description were,
what do you do.. it's decision maker.
George
Bushism - Jobs
- Decisions
- Stupid
- Leadership
- President
As Americans, we want peace.. we work and
sacrifice for peace. But there can be no
peace if our security depends on the will
and whims of a ruthless and aggressive dictator.
I'm not willing to stake one American life
on trusting Saddam Hussein.
George
Bush - War
- America
- Peace
- Leadership
You don't get everything you want. A dictatorship
would be a lot easier.. So long as I'm the
dictator.
George
Bush - Politics
- Leadership
Smart people instinctively understand the
dangers of entrusting our future to self-serving
leaders who use our institutions.. whether
in the corporate or social sectors.. to
advance their own interests.
Jim
Collins - Smart
- Society
- Understanding
- Leadership
- Management
If we allow the celebrity rock-star model
of leadership to triumph, we will see the
decline of corporations and institutions
of all types. The twentieth century was
a century of greatness, but we face the
very real prospect that the next century
will see very few enduring great institutions.
Jim
Collins - Management
- Famous
- Leadership
- Great
Many business leaders today view their jobs
as entailing responsibility for the welfare
of the wider community. These individuals
do not define themselves as profit-making
machines whose only reason for existing
is to satisfy escalating expectation for
immediate gain.
Mihaly
Csikszentmihalyi - Business
Ethics
- Leadership
- Business
- Profits
- Jobs
- Responsibility
Executives owe
it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming
individuals in important jobs.
Peter
Drucker - Leadership
- Responsibility
- Work -
Management
Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives
what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge
or information.
Peter
Drucker - Leadership
- Strength
- Management
- Decisions
Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I've worked with over a sixty-five-year
consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were all over the map in
terms of their personalities, attitudes, values, strengths, and weaknesses.
Peter
Drucker - Leadership
- Strength
- Management
It's fascinating as we continue to innovate and lead the way in both the
application space and the database space. In the very beginning, people said you
couldn't make relational databases fast enough to be commercially viable. I thought
we could, and we were the first to do it. But we took tremendous abuse until IBM
said, "Oh yeah, this stuff is good."
Larry
Ellison - Innovation
- Leadership
Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.
Rudy
Giuliani - Goals
- Leadership
- Optimistic
There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs,
being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most
important characteristic of a great leader.
Rudy
Giuliani - Leadership
- Belief
- Challenges
- Strength
Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single
human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what
you do and how you do it.
Rudy
Giuliani - Leadership
- Freedom
- Authority
The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.
Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe - Leadership
- Partnership
- Success
The company was quite hierarchical. I often think it was like a pyramid with
Robert (husband Robert Holmes
à Court) at the top and lots of us paying homage to him. I try to
turn the pyramid upside down so that I'm at the bottom and bubbling away and encouraging
people and energising them so that they are all empowered so that they can do
what they need to do, now that's the dream.
Janet
Holmes a Court - Encouragement
- Leadership
- Employees
I'm not a banner. I am an encourager and a persuader and an advocate.
John
Howard - Encouragement
- Leadership
To my mind, you cannot speak about the need for leadership within our communities
without being prepared to take on responsibility yourself. It’s not enough
to point the finger at those who have let us down and to expect others to come
forward and fix our problems. Nor can anyone afford to call themselves a leader
unless they truly have the interests of our community at heart. Too many people
like to think they are leaders and too many are identified by the media as leaders
who are not really leaders at all.
Jackie
Huggins - Leadership
- Responsibility
- Problems
- Media
We have reached a pivotal time in Indigenous affairs when for the first time,
national attention is being paid to the horror of Indigenous family violence in
this country. For the
first time, an Australian Prime Minister has held a summit in the national capital
to listen to concerns and ideas on this issue from a group of Indigenous leaders.
Jackie
Huggins - Human
Rights - Australia
- Politicians
- Indigenous
- Leadership
A great company in the media business needs visionary leaders, not a conglomerate
structure headquartered in Columbus Circle that second guesses.
Carl
Icahn - Companies
- Leadership
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