Quotes & Sayings About Management Leadership

If you are not taking the time to set your own goals, chances are pretty high someone else is doing it for you. So don't be surprised someday when you end up someplace you never hoped to be. — Mark W. Boyer

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

I read about a number of generals and colonels who are said to have wandered about exhorting the troops to advance. That must have been very inspirational! I suspect, however, that the men were more interested and more impressed by junior officers and NCOs who were willing to lead them rather than having some general pointing out the direction in which they should go. — Stephen E. Ambrose

If you are not willing to give a less experienced qualified professional a chance, don't complain you are charged double for a job worth half. — Mark W. Boyer

Once you expect great things from yourself, anything is possible. — Mark W. Boyer

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

Action w/o orchestration is burn out; orchestration w/o action is management; action with orchestration is leadership. — Orrin Woodward

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

Knowing your feelings won't change the facts, but knowing the facts can change your feelings. — Marlene Chism

But such people (Moderate Conservatives) aren't liberal. What they are is corporate. Their habits and opinions owe far more to the standards of courtesy and taste that prevail within the white-collar world than they do to Franklin Roosevelt and the United Mine Workers. We live in a time, after all, when hard-nosed bosses compose awestruck disquisitions on the nature of 'change,' punk rockers dispense leadership secrets, shallow profundities about authenticity sell luxury cars, tech billionaires build rock'n'roll musuems, management theorists ponder the nature of coolness, and a former lyricist fro the Grateful Dead hail the dawn of New Economy capitalism from the heights of Davos. Coversvatives may not understand why, but business culture had melded with counterculture for reasons having a great deal to do with business culture's usual priority - profit. — Thomas Frank

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

If you really want the key to success, start by doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing. — Brad Szollose

We must be drawn by the idea of where we want to go more than we dislike the idea of all the work it is going to take to get there. — Scott Hammerle

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

For individuals and organizations alike, a reputation is far easier to destroy than it is to build. — Andrew Griffin

We have good leadership only by chance, not by management.

And we need to change that! — Amit Chatterjee

Creating change-agile businesses will eliminate the need for what we today call change management. — Paul Gibbons

You can lead with or without a title. If you wait until you get a title, you may wait forever. — Mark Miller

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

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

I'm OK with firing people when they fuck up, but canning them when they've done nothing wrong - that's painful. [on the layoffs needed after 9/11 hit the business] — Marcus Samuelsson

Dream without fear, love without limits, and let your life sing its song. — Dilip Bathija

Now, everybody is searching for managers with a little dose of leadership (not too much but it should be clearly there). Some "bosses" say that their employees either have leadership skills or they don't, that this is an innate ability. Others think leadership can be learned and they train their employees through various courses on this topic. The main aspect to observe here is that the majority of employers do not train or want their employees to become "distinct" leaders and follow their path in the world. They want and train them to stay in their company and successfully deliver more to the company. Of course, the rule is validated by exceptions, so there are companies that give birth, from their environment and trainings, to great and very influential leaders. — Elena D. Calin

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

Top management is supposed to be a tree full of owls ... hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is. — Robert Townsend

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

To make a decision, all you need is authority. To make a good decision, you also need knowledge, experience, and insight. — Denise Moreland

TRUST AND FAIRNESS DEVELOP HARMONY — Miguel Reynolds Brandao

Imagine going to work every day to do only and exactly what you love!! All the work gets done because of the abundant diversity of your team. Different skills, interests and talents are woven together into a whole that is much greater than the sum of the parts! — Denise Moreland

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

Leadership is the influence of a person(s) on another person(s) which guides their efforts in a specific direction, with more purpose, clarity, and unity than they would have held on their own. — Michael A. Wood Jr.

Manager! Have brain - use it! — Gerry Geek

Everyone is a business person. You must be in the business of managing your time. Managing your time means managing your life. Good time managers are good life managers, and vice versa. — Archibald Marwizi

Making appointments with yourself and scheduling other things around them is key to proactive self-management. — Michael Hyatt

So this is (a manager's) dilemma: The manager must retain control and focus people on performance. But she is bound by her belief that she cannot force everyone to perform the same way ... The solution is as elegant as it is efficient: Define the right outcomes and let each person find his own route toward these outcomes. — Marcus Buckingham

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

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

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

Expression is the truth, impression is a lie. — Krishna Sagar

People don't follow you because you are nice, they follow you because they believe the place you are taking them is better than the place they are. — Scott Hammerle

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

I say, 'Get me some poets as managers.' Poets are our original systems thinkers. They contemplate the world in which we live and feel obligated to interpret, and give expression to it in a way that makes the reader understand how that world runs. Poets, those unheralded systems thinkers, are our true digital thinkers. It is from their midst that I believe we will draw tomorrow's new business leaders.
Sidney Harman, CEO Multimillionaire of a stereo components company — Daniel H. Pink

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

Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should they be. Effective leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do. — Warren G. Bennis

Great leaders inspire greatness in others. — Lolly Daskal

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

Delegation is not a binary thing. There are shades of grey between a dictatorship and an anarchy. — Jurgen Appelo

Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could. — Steve Jobs

The typical mentality among the leadership of "less work for more money" is far too prevalent. Outstanding efforts by individual employees are frowned upon, because they give "management" a reason to expect better results without an increase in compensation. — Glenn Beck

Address the solvable first, instructs the father by way of teaching his son crisis management. That way, he counsels, there is less distraction to tackle more daunting issues. — Brian Herbert

MERIT IS A PRODUCT OF KNOWLEDGE AND TRANSPARENCY — Miguel Reynolds Brandao

We live in a world in which everything seems to needed now and working quickly is normally viewed as a positive attribute in the workplace...Do not let yourself become too frazzled and stressed by doing everything at high speed.

As I have coached hundreds of individuals in the workplace, I have discovered that we waste precious time by delaying and procrastinating. We might know that the work is very urgent and important but we still might find ourselves being slow to start the task. — Nigel Cumberland

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

Knowing that organisations are at the core of our society, it then becomes clear that humanity needs these organisations to prosper. There, the creation of a transparent, accessible, dynamic and meritocratic organisation model can generate sustainable organisations and as a result, a sustainable society — Miguel Reynolds Brandao

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 let Deepak Chopra manage your change program. — Paul Gibbons

Digital synchronization occurs when all parts of the choir sing their respective parts in harmony. — Pearl Zhu

Culture is what happens when the managers are not around. — Pearl Zhu

Move away from the mid-set that the fulfillment of the organization's mission, vision, and strategic plan is only the work of leaders. — Sue Tetzlaff

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

When I interviewed Paul Bremer in his office he had almost no books on his shelves. He had a couple of management books, like "Leadership" by Rudolph Giuliani . I didn't take it as an encouraging sign. — George Packer

Under a good administration, the Nile gains on the desert. Under a bad one, the desert gains on the Nile. — Napoleon Bonaparte

If you don't give, you don't get. — Krishna Sagar

Leadership and management are not synonymous. — Travis Bradberry

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

Marketing management is now tribal leadership. — Seth Godin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A $10,000 investment in Dell at its 1988 initial public offering would have yielded a fortune of ~$6 million at the stock's peak. — Heather Simmons

If you continue doing what you have done in the past, you will get what you have received in the past. — Avinash Narula

The change "grief cycle", for some people, may be excitement, enthusiasm, engagement, effort, and excellence. — Paul Gibbons

Dr. Prem, a world renowned speaker delivers flawless speeches on various topics including leadership, public speaking, business management and global healthcare. Dr. Prem is well informed and his speeches are well researched. — David Nelson

Having a person of Dr. Berthiaume's calibre leading Library and Archives Canada will be a solid asset to the organization. His extensive experience in the management of large cultural organizations and his strong leadership are important qualifications for this position. — Shelly Glover

The formula for successful leadership has changed little, if at all over the centuries. It isn't leadership that changes over time, rather where the leaders need to take their people that changes. — Scott Hammerle

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

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible. — Colin Powell

Leadership is service, not position. — Tim Fargo

It's not about how smart you are
it's about capturing minds. — Richie Norton

People don't change that much. Instead of trying to put in what God left out, try drawing out what God left in! — Curt Coffman

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

Managers' responsibility is to ensure that people deliver the expected results, which are the company's strategy. The company's strategy, in turn, determines its competitive advantage. So, if a manager does a poor job of motivating employees' productivity, the enterprise is a weak competitor. — Anna Stevens

The key to handling conflict is to make sure people understand it's okay to have an opposing view. — Eunice Parisi-Carew

We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them. — Akio Morita

Innovation can start with wanting what does not yet exist - and finding a solution - or seeing what does not yet exist - and finding an opportunity. — Max McKeown

Management's job is to convey leadership's message in a compelling and inspiring way. Not just in meetings, but also by example. — Jeffrey Gitomer

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. — Peter F. Drucker