Best 78 quotes in «leadership vs management quotes» category

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.

Overcoming failure is a choice, therefore failure is not a destination; it is a state of mind.

Solitude helps the soul remember that life and work have two completely different meanings. It reminds us that we were created for greatness in relationship with others, not task lists and spreadsheets.

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.

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.

Success will teach you who your real friends are.

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

The different kinds of work require different people to perform the task. You must fulfil your specific task.

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

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

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

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

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

Strive to be a person of action, good deeds and a willing vessel of hope.

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

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

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

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

The vanities of life:pleasure, possession, position and power.

To help others see their own paths, spark the fuel of their personal passions.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Why live my personal values at work? This is an excellent question to ask. If your attorneys are planning an insanity defense.

Work/life balance is not about escaping work. It’s about living exactly the way you want to when you’re at work.

You can stuff yourself with emotional fulfillment until it’s dribbling down your chin & your ego will quickly chomp it down and demand more.

You can’t sell it outside if you can’t sell it inside.

You don't have to fear your own company being perceived as human. You want it. People don't trust companies; they trust people.

Your company is its own competition and can deliver itself debilitating blows the competition only dreams of.

Your company really has to work for you before you’ll really work for your company.

Your dreams and the dreams of your company may be different, but they are in no way incompatible.

You've lost command when you ask your own staff officer to step up and he responds, "now is not a good time for me Sir" in the most casual voice.

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.

Your values are your essence: an undistorted mirror showing you at your pure, attractive best.

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.

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.

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

The manager administers; the leader innovates.