Best 81 quotes in «effective leadership quotes» category

It’s impossible for a company to get what it wants most if managers have to make a choice between their own values and company priorities.

Leadership creates performance in people because it impacts willingness; it’s a matter of modeling, inspiring, and reinforcing.

Leadership’s primary job is to enhance creative capacity by developing collectively effective leadership.

Let’s get right on top of the bottom line: You must live your personal values at work.

Management controls performance in people because it impacts skills; it’s a matter of monitoring, analyzing and directing.

Managers know what they want most: to be allowed to achieve success by leveraging who they are, not by compromising it.

One day in my pharmacology class, we were discussing the possibility of legalizing marijuana. The class was pretty evenly divided between those that advocated legalizing marijuana and those that did not. The professor said he wanted to hear from a few people on both sides of the argument. A couple students had the opportunity to stand in front of the class and present their arguments. One student got up and spoke about how any kind of marijuana use was morally wrong and how nobody in the class could give him any example of someone who needed marijuana. A small girl in the back of the classroom raised her hand and said that she didn’t want to get up, but just wanted to comment that there are SOME situations in which people might need marijuana. The same boy from before spoke up and said that she needed to back up her statements and that he still stood by the fact that there wasn’t anyone who truly needed marijuana. The same girl in the back of the classroom slowly stood up. As she raised her head to look at the boy, I could physically see her calling on every drop of confidence in her body. She told us that her husband had cancer. She started to tear up, as she related how he couldn’t take any of the painkillers to deal with the radiation and chemotherapy treatments. His body was allergic and would have violent reactions to them. She told us how he had finally given in and tried marijuana. Not only did it help him to feel better, but it allowed him to have enough of an appetite to get the nutrients he so desperately needed. She started to sob as she told us that for the past month she had to meet with drug dealers to buy her husband the only medicine that would take the pain away. She struggled every day because according to society, she was a criminal, but she was willing to do anything she could to help her sick husband. Sobbing uncontrollably now, she ran out of the classroom. The whole classroom sat there in silence for a few minutes. Eventually, my professor asked, “Is there anyone that thinks this girl is doing something wrong?” Not one person raised their hand.

Profitability. Growth. Quality. Exceeding customer expectations. These are not examples of values. These are examples of corporate strategies being sold to you as values.

Success for Managers means: I want to be in healthy relationships. I want a real connection with people I spend so much time with.

The economy is in ruins! Bottom line? Good management will defeat a bad economy.

Most managers have plenty of emotional commitment to give to their jobs. If they can be convinced it’s safe and sensible to give it.

Nichts kommt von selbst. Und nur wenig ist von Dauer. Darum — besinnt Euch auf Eure Kraft und darauf, dass jede Zeit eigene Antworten will und man auf ihrer Höhe zu sein hat, wenn Gutes bewirkt werden soll.“ ("Nothing happens automatically. And only few things last. Therefore — be mindful of your strength, and of the fact that every era wants its own answers, and you have to be up to its speed in order to be able to do good.") Message to the Socialist International Congress in Berlin, September 15, 1992

One of the most significant barriers to progress is the lack of effective leadership.

Progress and motion are not synonymous.

Providing the ultimate solution to work/life balance: not escaping from work but living the way you want to at work.

Success means: I want to know the work I do means something to somebody and helps make the world, if not a Better place, not a worse one.

The company may have captured their minds, their bodies and their pockets, but that doesn’t mean it’s captured their hearts.

The first step out of the gate has to be knowing where you want to end up. What do you really want from your company?

The first step to solving any problem is to accept one’s own accountability for creating it.

The heart of a company’s performance is hardwired to the hearts of its managers.

The high quality of a company’s customer experience rarely has anything to do with the high price of their product.

The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.

The most effective boos is someone who doesn’t have to boss around.

The most effective boss is someone who doesn’t have to boss around.

The myth of management is that your personal values are irrelevant or inappropriate at work.

Leaders make a lot of mistakes but they admit those mistakes to themselves and change because of them.

The real power of effective leadership is maximizing other people’s potential which inevitably demands also ensuring that they get the credit. When our ego won’t let us build another person up, when everything has to build us up, then the effectiveness of the organization reverts to depending instead on how good we are in the technical aspects of what we do. And we have stopped leading and inspiring others to great heights.

The purpose of leadership is to change the world around you in the name of your values, so you can live those values more fully.

The reason some people do not become great is because the met great people but asked the wrong questions. The problem here is not the absence of access, it is bad sense.

There is no shortcut for hard work that leads to effectiveness. You must stay disciplined because most of the work is behind the scenes.

There will be plenty of other problems in the future. This is as good a time as any to get ahead of them.

The worst thing in your own development as a leader is not to do it wrong. It’s to do it for the wrong reasons.

To know in order not to be disoriented, To be able to seize the sense of the event, To avoid a mental anarchy, and to act effectively. - On Being Prepared

The efforts would always be successful where the two floors would like to be one.

This is your one and only precious life. Somebody’s going to decide how it’s going to be lived and that person had better be you.

To be effective, we have to slow down the speed of our thoughts and focus on managing our attention.

To integrate one’s experiences around a coherent and enduring sense of self lies at the core of creating a user’s guide to life.

True leaders live their values everywhere, not just in the workplace.

Values are the individual biases that allow you to decide which actions are true for you alone.

Values are deeply held personal beliefs that form your own priority code for living.

Try not to take this the wrong way, but your brain is smarter than you are.

What managers want most from companies they stop themselves from getting. What companies want most from managers they stop them from giving.

What first separates a leader from a normal human being? A leader knows who they are as a human being.

We are most effective when we are able to lean in fully to the resource of the other people in our lives.

What companies want most from their managers is what they most stop their managers from giving. What managers want most from their jobs is what they most stop themselves from getting.

When you don’t know what true for you, everyone else has unusual influence.

When rewards come from an external source instead of an internal source, they’re unreliable, which means they’re dangerous if you grow to depend on them.

When we miss the meaning of a language, we miss the real essence and impact of communication. If we lose the real meaning of a language, we lose the real understanding of a language. Friendship is developed and nurtured through effective communication and that is the great tool that shapes friendship. A good communication, regardless of how short it might be is a great litmus paper that proves who a true friend or false friend is. A good communication does not only trigger the best bond but it also uncovers things in the heart that are hidden from the eyes. Without an effective communication, real friendship and real love between two great people is just like two great mountains with a valley between them. Without communication, we lose what we could have heard from real people. When we miss the meaning of a language, we miss the real essence and impact of communication!!!

When you’re not on your own agenda, you’re prey to the agenda of others.

When you’re a manager, you work for your company. When you’re a leader, your company works for you.