Philip Selznick Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Philip Selznick
Leadership, pure and simple, is the assumption of responsibility for the pursuit of excellence in group life. — Philip Selznick
The institutional leader is primarily an expert in the promotion and protection of values. — Philip Selznick
The term "leadership" connotes critical experience rather than routine practice. This is suggested in the following comment by Barnard: The overvaluation of the apparatus of communication and administration is opposed to leadership and the development of leaders. It opposes leadership whose function is to promote appropriate adjustment of ends and means to new environmental conditions, because it opposes change either of status in general or of established procedures and habitual routine. This overvaluation also discourages the development of leaders by retarding the progress of the abler men and by putting an excessive premium on routine qualities.[6] {37} — Philip Selznick
It has been well said that an effective leader must know the meaning and master the technique of the educator. — Philip Selznick