Best Leadership Management Quotes & Sayings

ReThink Training: The best process of learning is on the job, just-in-time, "nibble-knowledge" to incrementally transform mindsets and skillsets irrevocably. — Tony Dovale

When an employee truly understands the meaning of his work and gets recognition for his efforts he performs the best. — Abhishek Ratna

When you master the basics, and execute them well, there's no need to worry about the score. — Frank Sonnenberg

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. — Grace Hopper

Inspirational leadership connects to a highly motivated workforce which, in turn, means inspirational results — Nigel Crouch

Spend the most time with your best people ... Talent is the multiplier. THe more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time ... Persistence directed primarily toward your non-talents is self-destructive ... You will reprimand yourself, berate yourself, and put yourself through all manner of contortions in an attempt to achieve the impossible. — Marcus Buckingham

Authenticity requires us to slow down. Fast times require us to slow down. To be effective, we need to slow down our pace of thought and action and focus on managing our attention. To be authentic leaders we need to act from intention and choice rather than from habit and impulse. — Henna Inam

Discipline is "the systematic management of your life to prepare and position you for your divine design." Discipline and stewardship are one and the same. Discipline brings order to life and is absolutely required if we're going to be good stewards of the call to leadership. — Kent Ingle

You have to escape from management land and get in touch with your people. — David Cottrell

Control your own Destiny or somebody else will — Jack Welch

People need to feel safe to be who they are - to speak up when they have an idea, or to speak out when they feel something isn't right. — Eunice Parisi-Carew

The only consequence of their (employee) silence is that the blind (employer) lead the blind. — Margaret Heffernan

Master Yourself and you master your environment! Such is the nature of wisdom. — D. Nicole Williams

Dave Stark has taken the best of recent marketplace management concepts and married them to timeless biblical principles of leadership, translating business jargon into ministry language. The combination is an encouraging and practical guide to Christ-centered ministry leadership. This book will be helpful to anyone involved in leading a church or serious about modeling servant leadership. — Jonathan Reckford

When you touch, don't take. Touch the people you manage only when you are giving them something - reassurance, support, encouragement, whatever. Manipulation is getting people to do something they are either not aware of or don't agree to. That is why it is so important to let each person know up front what you are doing and why. — Kenneth H. Blanchard

Learning has replaced control as the fundamental role of management. — Shoshana Zuboff

Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around. — Stephen Covey

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it. — Theodore Roosevelt

One of the functions of leadership is to lead, and weak managers may simply check and check and check with others because they are not capable of leading when it is required of them to lead. Benedict says that in matters of importance the abbot or prioress is to ask everyone in the community, 'starting with the youngest,' and then the abbot or prioress is to 'do what seems best. — Joan D. Chittister

At its best, leadership development is not an "event." It's a capacity-building endeavor. It's a process of human growth and development. — Linda Fisher Thornton

Onward and upward has been replaced by forward and toward. — Julie Winkle Giulioni

We need leadership books that offer information as well as inspiration. Pop leadership is one of the most destructive forces today. — Paul Gibbons

whenever we stop doing something, we start doing anything — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Marketing management is now tribal leadership. — Seth Godin

No matter how slow or long it takes, it is never too late to right a wrong. — Mark W. Boyer

If all you are doing is spending time with the struggling members of your church and you are not building proactively into your church's culture, and you are being shortsighted and limiting the effectiveness of your ministry. — James MacDonald

We all know business financial performance improves when more women are in senior levels of management and leadership. — Beth Brooke

The punch line is 'knock the morale of an employee and organizational productivity is punctured'. — Henrietta Newton Martin

Don't buy into the campaign that people don't like change. We are built for it. — Stacy Feiner

If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road. — Stephen Covey

No amount of training in leadership skills, courses in management methods, power titles, promotions, or associations can substitute for the right attitudes. — Myles Munroe

There is no check-box for ethical leadership.
It is an ongoing individual and organizational journey.
We will never know everything that there is to know. — Linda Fisher Thornton

Valuation depends on several factors. From an investor angle, they look at leadership position, management, and what the company's offerings are. I think these three things got 5/5 for a company like Flipkart, and that is what is driving valuations and growth. — Sachin Bansal

You can never grow and lead if you don't know how to train. — Honeya

Organizational culture is just like the "Operation System" of the organization, you need reboot periodically to keep it running smoothly. — Pearl Zhu

Managers are people who know what they want.
Leaders are people who get what they want. — Bogdan Vaida

Management works in the system; leadership works on the system. — Stephen Covey

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. — John C. Maxwell

The truth is that no internal reviews or congressional hearings will change the Secret Service's broken management culture. It needs better leadership. — Ronald Kessler

We have minds that are equipped for certainty, linearity and short-term decisions, that must instead make long-term decisions in a non-linear, probabilistic world. — Paul Gibbons

Increasingly, management's role is not to organize work, but to direct passion and purpose. — Greg Satell

A few of the managers we spoke with for this book worried that the tour of duty framework might give employees "permission" to leave. But permission is not yours to give or to withhold, and believing you have that power is simply a self-deception that leads to a dishonest relationship with your employees. Employees don't need your permission to switch companies, and if you try to assert that right, they'll simply make their move behind your back. — Reid Hoffman

It is through aversion to hardship that great ideas are born, but it is only through acceptance of it that these ideas can be implemented — Agona Apell

We often commit foolish mistakes in trying to be smart — Siddharth Joshi