Best 81 quotes in «effective leadership quotes» category

A company can’t buy true emotional commitment from managers no matter how much it’s willing to spend; this is something too valuable to have a price tag. And yet a company can’t afford not to have it.

Any expert will tell you that if you want emotionally committed relationships then people must be allowed to be true to who they are.

A leader without a clear vision and plans only abuses his power because visions, dreams and plans are the fulcrum along which the loads of success will spine by your own efforts. And where power is abused, there is manipulation instead of inspiration.

A manager’s emotional commitment is the ultimate trigger for their discretionary effort, worth more than financial, intellectual & physical commitment combined.

A manager’s emotional commitment is worth more than their financial, intellectual and physical commitment combined.

Being Fair and Consistent is the Hallmark of Effective and Non-discriminating Policies. If you are going to set up rules that all have to abide by, then you have to enforce it to all. Or it becomes targeting and discriminating. For consumer brands, it means you lose your integrity as a brand. You lose your effectiveness to keep the loyalty of your vendors, authors, and partners. - Strong by Kailin Gow

Being relevant to your customers only when you’re trying to sell something means choosing to be irrelevant to them for the rest of the time.

Careful now: even a financially rewarding, intellectually stimulating work environment isn’t the same as living your own values.

Companies should be the best possible place to practice fulfillment, to live out values and to realize deep connectivity and purpose.

Because our attachment to control is either unexamined or addictive, we do not understand that by relinquishing control and providing choice, we increase our influence and impact many times over.

Do you think your people struggle with being true to themselves? Do their values match up with their work?

Develop your leaders into a competitive advantage. Reconnect your leader-power to success.

Effective leadership is doing important things first. Effective management is knowing what is important.

Effective leadership is purely effective listening. There will be problems in any organisation, your job is to actively listen so you can lead solutions.

Hard-core results come from igniting the massive power of emotional commitment. Are your people committed?

Here’s what you need to know most about leadership: Lead your own life first. The only thing in this world that will dependably happen from the top down is the digging of your grave.

Human behavior is only unpredictable and dangerous if you don’t start from humanity in the first place.

Instead of waiting for a leader you can believe in, try this: Become a leader you can believe in.

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.

Imagine a world where what you say synchs up, not sinks down.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Progress and motion are not synonymous.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.