Quotes & Sayings About Learning Leadership

There is no algorithm for creativity. — Andy Hargreaves

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

Service to others should be one of the most basic purposes of family life and schooling. — Andy Hargreaves

A person's integrity develops early in life. Once formed, it is difficult to alter, change, or improve. — Scott K. Edinger

Schools cannot shut their gates and leave the outside world on the doorstep. — Andy Hargreaves

The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict? — Max De Pree

Walking the walk is one thing, but it is so much more powerful if you can talk it as well. — Robin Hoyle

It is those who have the distinction of privilege who set the standards of disgust with failure. — Andy Hargreaves

Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit — Andy Hargreaves

High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play. — Andy Hargreaves

Emotions are a critical source of information for learning. — Joseph E. Ledoux

Lateral trust among colleagues is as important as vertical trust within the hierarchy. — Andy Hargreaves

High performance leaders know they have to breathe out when they are coming up for air. — Andy Hargreaves

If you want to know how a manager is performing ask to see their data, really want to know ... ask those that report to them. — Mark W. Boyer

As a leader, you have to take responsibility for your own failures as well as successes. That's the only way you'll learn.
If you keep learning, you'll improve.
If you improve, your leadership will get better.
And in time, you will earn the right to lead on the level you deserve. — John C. Maxwell

On government & unions: the only thing worse than blind trust is blind mistrust. — Andy Hargreaves

DevOps and its resulting technical, architectural, and cultural practices represent a convergence of many philosophical and management movements (including): Lean, Theory of Constraints, Toyota production system, resilience engineering, learning organizations, safety culture, Human factors, high-trust management cultures, servant leadership, organizational change management, and Agile methods. — Gene Kim

On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted. — Andy Hargreaves

Learning how to respond to and master the process of change - and even to excel at it - is a critical leadership skill for the twenty-first century. Constant, rapid change will be a fact of life for all of us. — Jennifer James

With every episode of struggle, there is a learning opportunity. — Richard M. Schulze

A brainscan cannot interpret itself and neither can a data dashboard in education. — Andy Hargreaves

You can find humor in everything. everything. — Krishna Sagar

So don't look over your shoulder or let fear and anxiety rule you. Go for broke. Let passion blaze your trail. Look ahead and pursue the dream that fits who you are as a person and a manager. Learn what you can, but don't get bogged down
in today's world, there's so much to know that learning can actually take the place of action and hold you back. Learn enough, then trust your gut and act. Be bold
or crazy
enough not to hold back. Take advantage of the freedom to be your own person. When the game is over, regardless of the score, you'll revel in what you've done. — Edward M. Hallowell

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

Always seek to learn: The leader is always learning new things and gaining new insights. — Artika R. Tyner

The experience of the expert is an advantage to them only for as long as it enables them to learn faster than the novice — Agona Apell

The truth to succeeding at leadership is recognizing that it's a never-ending journey of discovery and learning. — Tanveer Naseer

Walking makes us take problems in our stride. — Andy Hargreaves

Every solution has a problem. — Andy Hargreaves

Learning and leadership go together. Too much credit goes to me for what we have achieved at Virgin but the successes happen from working and learning with some of the world's most inspiring and inspired people. — Richard Branson

In Britain, you do your job. When you do an American TV show, there is a sense of being one with the crew, and there is a leadership element, which was a learning curve for me because it is very different culturally. In Britain, you just do it, leave and say, 'Thanks.' — Theo James

Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity. — Andy Hargreaves

Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies. — Andy Hargreaves

It's important to get in the habit of growing as a human being, developing and refining leadership and management skills and entrepreneurial instincts and changing to accommodate the times. — Ivanka Trump

Who better to teach than the most capable among us? And I'm not just talking about seminars or formal settings. Our actions and behaviors, for better or worse, teach those who admire and look up to us how to govern their own lives. Are we thoughtful about how people learn and grow? As leaders, we should think of ourselves as teachers and try to create companies in which teaching is seen as a valued way to contribute to the success of the whole. Do we think of most activities as teaching opportunities and experiences as ways of learning? One of the most crucial responsibilities of leadership is creating a culture that rewards those who lift not just our stock prices but our aspirations as well. — Ed Catmull

The teacher has more power than the Minister. — Andy Hargreaves

We must humble ourselves before [others] so we may learn from what others have lived. It is only when we have added their expertise to our own that we can truly excel towards our most ambitious goals and reach our fullest potential. — A.J. Darkholme

In healthy individuals, emotions don't distort rationality, they enhance it! — Andy Hargreaves

High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past. — Andy Hargreaves

By learning more, by doing more, by becoming more, and by creating a common vision, a leader is a person who can inspire others to change for the better. — Debasish Mridha

Deadwood did not kill itself! — Andy Hargreaves

A Board can be harmonized through leadership humility, insightful business understanding, trustful culture, and learning agility. — Pearl Zhu

Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest. — Andy Hargreaves

On learning: if you really want alignment, go to a chiropractor. — Andy Hargreaves

Give serious thought to why your company should care about your strategy. Specifically, find problems that the board wants to be solved. What are senior managers scared of? Part of becoming a credible strategic thinker is learning effective approaches to selling ideas for your situation. You'll know that you're getting better at selling (or pitching) strategy when managers start coming to you when there is strategic thinking to be done. — Max McKeown

But there is one thing most companies struggle to standardize, and ironically, it's the most important part of our efforts to gain and sustain results. It is leadership. — Quint Studer

Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony. — Andy Hargreaves

Having and understanding of the 'why' will help having an understanding of the 'how'. — Bobby Darnell

We must act as if our institutions are ours to create, our learning is ours to define, our leadership we seek is ours to become. — Peter Block

The first move of leadership is learning to think for yourself. — Robin Sharma

The task of leadership is to be intentional about the way we group people and the questions that we engage them in. — Peter Block

Rethink Success: Most people will never achieve past their existing levels, because they don't understand the importance of changing their Mindset — Tony Dovale

We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers. — Andy Hargreaves

Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow. — Criss Jami

In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped. — Laozi

Every learner has special needs. — Andy Hargreaves

Students become good learners when they are in the classes of teachers who are good learners. — Andy Hargreaves

It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest. — Charles Darwin

Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning. — Andy Hargreaves

Leadership needs continuous learning from experience. Every time you learn something new, you re-wire your brain. — Amit Ray

On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice. — Andy Hargreaves

Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate. — Andy Hargreaves

Independent and stubborn natures, such as are particularly common among men of learning, do not readily bow to another's will and for the most part only accept his leadership grudgingly. But when Lorentz is in the presidential chair, an atmosphere of happy cooperation is invariably created, however much those present may differ in their aims and habits of thought. The secret of this success lies not only in his swift comprehension of people and things and his marvelous command of language, but above all in this, that one feels that his whole heart is in the business at hand, and that when he is at work, he has room for nothing else in his mind. Nothing disarms the recalcitrant so much as this. — Albert Einstein

I don't consider myself an expert in the why. I don't consider myself an expert in leadership. I consider myself a student of leadership and I consider myself a student of the why. I'm constantly learning and I'm constantly looking for opportunities where it it will fail. — Simon Sinek

Strong professional communities risk and sometimes relish conflict. — Andy Hargreaves

Alignment, to us, means bringing pieces into the same line - the same direction. The metaphor is that a magnet will make pieces of iron point toward it. Agreement is share intellectual understanding. Tribes are clusters of people, and people are complex and nonrational at times. If a tribe is united only by agreement, as soon as times change, agreement has to be reestablished. If people learn new ideas or see a problem from a new perspective, they no longer agree, so tribes based on agreement often discourage learning, questioning, and independent thought. Tribes based on alignment want to maximize each person's contribution, provided that they stay pointed in the same direction like magnetized iron filings. — Dave Logan

Sustainable leadership does no harm to and actively improves the surrounding environment. — Andy Hargreaves

When creativity is the goal, schools must have their own platforms to network and innovate. — Andy Hargreaves

If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable. — Andy Hargreaves

Let there be a child, who should,
not be taught.
Let there be a child, who should,
be refrained from books.
Let him not hear,
don't preach him, dear.
Don't let him read the quotations,
on internet and make them his passion.
Don't tell him stories of successful,
and make them his anthem.
Allow him to grow unto what,
he is to know. — Jasleen Kaur Gumber

The economists who have put the spotlight on teacher quality are the ones who most misunderstand it. — Andy Hargreaves

Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students. — Andy Hargreaves

The more intentional you are about your leadership growth, the greater your potential for becoming the leader you're capable of being. Never stop learning. — John C. Maxwell

When challenges present themselves, practice will permit you to draw on the wisdom and learning you cultivate as you learn to lead valiantly. — Catherine Robinson-Walker

A part of control is learning to correct your own weaknesses. The person doesn't live who was born with everything. Sometimes he has one weak point, generally he has several. The first thing is to know your faults. And then take on a systematic plan of correcting them. You know the old saying about a chain only being as strong as its weakest link. The same can be said in the chain of skills a man forges. — Babe Ruth

On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse. — Andy Hargreaves

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

You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations. — Andy Hargreaves

Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system. — Andy Hargreaves

In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support. — Andy Hargreaves

Trust processes as well as people. — Andy Hargreaves

Professional trust is a process, not a state. — Andy Hargreaves

Technology Coaches demonstrate professional knowledge, skills, and dispositions in content, pedagogical, and technological areas as well as adult learning and leadership and are continuously deepening their knowledge and expertise. — Jo Williamson

Failure is a natural part of learning and developing, and it teaches us to be resolute and steadfast in our endeavors. — Henry Kimsey-House

Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change. — Andy Hargreaves

You learn from mistakes so the best leaders are constantly making new mistakes on their success journey. — Orrin Woodward

Leaders are passionate learners. Leaders are always seeking ways to improve themselves by sharpening their skills. They fully embrace the fact that growing leaders lead growing organizations. — Gary Rohrmayer

A person with passion will not look somewhere to see who is not doing it; they will focus and do what they can. — Israelmore Ayivor

But after about a year praying, there was just this clear direction. The leadership team believed that God was leading us to focus on fatherhood. If God is leading, then God will provide. So we begin to get storyline ideas that lined up with the subject of fatherhood that we're working on and fitting, and we were thinking, okay this is good. At the same time, as we are studying scriptures and we're on our journey as fathers, we are learning about fatherhood every day. — Stephen Kendrick

Human growth is not like rhubarb. It can be nurtured and encouraged but it cannot be forced. — Andy Hargreaves

How much time and energy should companies invest in infrastructure and planning early on in anticipation of success? Spend too much and you waste precious time that could have been spent learning. Spend too little and you may fail to take advantage of early success and cede market leadership to a fast follower. — Eric Ries

The philosophy of project-based homeschooling - this particular approach to helping children become strong thinkers, learners, and doers - is dependent upon the interest and the enthusiastic participation and leadership of the learners themselves, the children. — Lori McWilliam Pickert

The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script. — Andy Hargreaves

Change is easy to propose, hard to implement, and especially hard to sustain. — Andy Hargreaves

No matter how fast weapons and technology evolve in the 21st century, one thing remains constant is that war is a human endeavor, a grueling contest between two learning and adaptive forces. Victory, therefore rests on how smart, how tough, and how dedicated our boots on the ground. — Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono

Transmit your vision emotionally by gaining credibility, demonstrating passion, establishing relationships and communicating a felt need. Transmit it logically by confronting reality, formulating strategy, accepting responsibility, celebrating victory and learning from defeat. — John C. Maxwell

Earning is a product of learning. You're only one letter away from earning more. — Richie Norton

Improvement is about doing something better; innovation is about doing something new. — Andy Hargreaves

Don't raise the bar and narrow the gap, but narrow the gap to raise the bar. — Andy Hargreaves

Here's the rub. Leadership can be learned; however, not everyone wants to learn it, and not all those who learn about leadership master it. Why? Because becoming the very best requires a strong belief that you can learn and grow, an intense aspiration to excel, the determination to challenge yourself constantly, the recognition that you must engage the support of others, and the devotion to practice deliberately. Moreover, the best leaders realize that no matter how good they might be, they always can be even better, and are open to learning how to do so.4 — James M. Kouzes