Leadership Quotes - Page 29

Cronkite is not a genius at anything except being straight, honest, and normal.

Douglas Brinkley

Your friend Plato holds that commonwealths will only be happy when either philosophers rule or rulers philosophize: how remote happiness must appear when philosophers won't even deign to share their thoughts with kings.

Having a team deliver standards and performance is much easier when they want to be there and want to be led by you.

Tony Curl

All progress begins with a decision. Effective leadership requires decisive action. Embrace the process of deciding, yet recognize when you have reached a choice point.

Focus your thoughts today on HOW ‘You can!’ instead of accepting that ‘You can’t.’ Amazing ideas will come your way.

Each decision you make today has the potential to unlock and open doors of profitable benefits or close the doors to great opportunities. Think before you act and make your decisions wisely today.

Trust and believe in the vision of your mind that others cannot yet see. While others abide by the creed that seeing is believing, you must know that believing is seeing.

Expect progress, not perfection.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

Leadership … is a collective and constantly redistributed function, and not the private property of the few or The One.

The challenge for us is to find some response that actually inspires change rather than clinging to the old ways that cause resentment, and more importantly, distract from the real problem.

A leader is someone who influences outcomes and inspires others.

We each must select the best hardships for our best future.

It's time for you to be the hero of your own journey.

Your choices are where your future begins.

Significant is the doer, the rest just watch!

He was more than comfortable with the language of imperious persuasion.

Dan Jones

The king's "only interest in government was a pious but simpleminded desire for reproachment

Dan Jones

It's time to consider: What are the toughest choices you face as you lead yourself and others into the future?

Consistency in right thinking and right doing is how you stay up in a down world.

Future shackled is when uncertainty is the enemy that must be beaten into submission.

Future strong is filled with disruptive heroes. Are you one?

We all deserve the best possible future.

YOU are the next big thing.

Who have you chosen to become?

Who will you choose to have your back?

Leaders: Your job in the future is to create a space where others feel save being vulnerable. Where fears and failures are openly discussed and used as lessons moving forward.

Despite several millennia of building best business practices, despite all the analysis and planning, and forced discipline and structure, what makes us human will never be cleaved from how work gets done.

The key difference between captain and coach? The latter’s opportunities for influence come at moments when play isn't happening,

Much of the outward business of kingship came naturally.

Dan Jones

Always remember: everything you do uses a portion of someone else's life.

Choosing to know yourself deeply hands you a torch to see beyond yourself, into the future. Into a strong future.

Before tomorrow becomes your legacy, come the choices you must make today.

The choices you make create your future.

To understand what makes you future strong, and what being strong means, is to understand how and why you make choices.

Future strong is being focused enough and mindful enough and courageous enough to search for patterns and order when all others see chaos and noise.

Future strong is letting go of what no longer serves you. Quickly.

Future strong is as focused on the success of every individual as it is on organizational success — creating an environment where people can achieve their dreams and full potential.

Future strong builds actions upon reflection, questions, curiosity, seeking to understand root causes and systemic connections.

Future strong strives for simplicity for all:Least amount of individual effort, energy and time to create maximum impact by each person.

Future strong is relationship-driven and joyful.Its best bet is on people. Its outcomes create joyfor others and ourselves.

We must stop destroying human capacity. Now.Too many of today’s leaders are holding back the future because it comes wrapped in risks.

If you are a senior executive, you need to embrace each individual’s right to choose his or her own hardships — and you must talk about that openly, candidly.

Everyone has a right to a strong and independent future: All of us have the right, and personal obligation, to choose whether or not company-driven hardships and sacrifices, overall, are shackling or strengthening our future. And to keep that right, each of us must be our own best advocate.

Leaders step up, even when they feel like hiding. And they do so because they care.

You live, work and lead others in the most exciting time, ever! Are you strong enough?

Your past is handing you a tool you can use to leap into your future: the crucible moments from your own life. The power you need is in looking back to look forward.

What will you do today so tomorrow becomes the legacy you wanted to leave?

If we don’t communicate, we certainly can’t get much done and if we don’t communicate authentically, what we get done is less effective.

No matter how crazed you get, no matter what pressures you're under, no matter who needs what by yesterday... Always remember: everything you do uses a portion of someone else's life.

People will change their habits quickly IF they have a strong reason for doing so.

Thomas L. Friedman

You will experience 100 transformative moments every year.

Leadership is a mindset in which one is unapologetically driven towards their goals and in behaving accordingly, inspires those around them to join in.

Leadership is the bridge of integrity that connects goals, desires, and actions.

The biggest, toughest competition in the future will be the battle for your time and attention. Your one thing — your call to adventure — is your best tool in that battle.

Loyalty — deep, intense, devoted loyalty — to a leader or a culture, to any group, brand or idea, goes far beyond being engaged or having our needs met. We see our emotional selves in that connection. We see our future, our best selves and our better angels in that connection.

Do not wait for vulnerability to be thrust upon you by your company or the marketplace. That is when you lost control of your own destiny. Choose to disrupt yourself. Seek vulnerability on your terms, no one else's.

Future strong leadership means being willing to stand alone. Often, the times we feel most vulnerable are when we stand alone, before others join us. When we choose to be the first voice echoing above the silence. Standing strong, alone.

Future strong is grace, kindness, and gratitude within a pressure cooker.

Future shackled is when tomorrow is anchored, boxed and managed to maximize the minimizing of uncertainty.

The one thing that's missing to create a fundamental shift in work capacity: courage. Leadership courage.

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