Quotes & Sayings About Leadership Versus Management

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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