Quotes & Sayings About Management Vs. 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

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

Leadership is familiar, but not well understood. — Gerald M. Weinberg

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

Whether a chief executive officer (CEO) is applying the practices to build an organizational vision or an employee is helping a colleague resolve a problem, anyone at any organizational level can leverage leadership practices. — Gary DePaul

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

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

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

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

Too many kings can ruin an army — Homer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Leadership and management are not synonymous. — Travis Bradberry

A boss in essence is every woman willing to try, push, succeed, fail but ultimately do the work in her lifescape to make her mark on the world the way she wants to draw it. — Jaha Knight

If you don't know the men at your back by name, don't be surprised if they won't follow you into battle. On the other hand, don't be surprised if they will, either, because there are countless other factors you must take into account. Leadership is a slippery commodity, not easily manufactured or understood. — Richard K. Morgan

All leading from the rear gets you, is first place at the back of the line. — Mark W. Boyer

The manager administers; the leader innovates. — Warren G. Bennis

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

In essence, leadership is the sense of calling to a higher purpose. — Amit Ray

Leaders live by reality and not by assumptions! — Gary Rohrmayer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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