Leadership Development Quotes - Page 4

You can’t inspire and lead people without earning their attention. You achieve that in a counter-intuitive way – by paying close attention to what interests them.

Leaders are people who know exactly who they are. They know exactly where they want to go. They’re hell-bent on getting there.

Risk is one of the qualities of any good decision. This is so because, decision itself is a risk. Therefore, making a decision literally means, taking a risk... In tracing the histories of successful men and women, the first thing to notice in their lives is risk.

Leaders cannot build a successful nation once they are yoked to these two evils, ignarance and greed.

Leadership is not about the power and status of one but the empowerment and service of all. That is what it should be and that is how it should be measured.

Spiritual authority is the direct result of God doing a greater work in the deeper areas of a leader’s life.

Attempting the impossibility with a possibility God breaks the impossibility barriers.

self-education is the education of your inner infinite creative resources and essential to get if you want to live a life of freedom, abundance and fulfillment.

Every leader will hit a series of plateaus in their lives. The key is not to say there, because settling on a plateau can easily lead to an elongated season of comfort. Being comfortable is one of the leader's worst enemies

Stay in your lane.

Learn from your experiences and past mistakes, assimilate them and convert them to formulas to achieve sustenance first , and then work your way to success to be the leaders in the market.

What you realize is that everyone has her own priorities—her own constituency. Often, being a leader is not about making grand proclamations or telling people what to do; it’s about balancing all these priorities and constituencies.

I've never been part of an formation where the leader succeeded on their own merits apart from their Soldier's.

As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example.

In the professional world of leadership ambition and potential are the most excessive commodities.

Manipulation is not of God, it is the highest form of sorcery for it enslave the soul to the will of man.....

Consistency in right thinking and right doing is how you stay up in a down world.

Serving my generation with excellence will in turn mean my generation can lead, with excellence.

Leaders have the right to expect that others will compassionately recognize them.

Self is All. (First Principle of Humanism)

Followers don't follow until they trust leaders to lead.

If you have allowed a laborious lifestyle to suppress your dreams, then NOW is the time to take a STAND and give yourself PERMISSION to DREAM again! Now remove the clutter in your life and make PLANS to make your dreams a reality.

Don't make excuses. Make commitments and stick to them.

If you cannot see where you are going, ask someone who has been there before.

Beware of simple solutions, they often lead to complex problems.

In leadership that 20/20 vision sometimes becomes 20/40 or 30/50 depending on how close you are to the situation. To my AG Warrior I may never meet thank you for your efforts in writing the prescription to reestablish the 20/20 for the good of the group.

My role as a role model is to teach my generation how to excel in the role of distinction.

True Mentors, don't make their mentees a clone of themselves

Leadership makes a difference in the results we create and the quality of life we live.

Neither inherently good nor evil, electronic communication platforms are 100 percent dependent on user input.

Disruptive innovation is entrepreneurs changing their industry with unique creativity.

Coachable leaders are ready and willing to make the needed changes and adjustments in their lives.

The Bible is the greatest book ever written. It is absolutely amazing the tremendous amount of joy, peace, and success one will experience simply by applying its admonition. If you truly want the “Good Life” follow the Good Book.

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.

Only a person who perceives that all human beings are important can become a great leader.

If a church is good at making disciples it will be good at making leaders because in the end, a good spiritual formation plan will lead to an accelerated spiritual multiplication.

If you're not reaching back to help anyone then you're not building a legacy.

Leadership is not about gaining something from your actions. Gain is the outcome and should not be the purpose.

Africa is crying out for entrepreneurial leaders & for leaders who are entrepreneurial.

Don't just think out of the box, stand on the box to see new possibilities and opportunities in becoming distinguished.

Entrepreneur, if your going to start up, make sure you start up with excellence in mind.

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

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.

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

How to prepare someone for leadership:I do it.I do it and you watch.You do it and I watch.You do it.You do it and someone else watches.

Your distinction shouldn't be measured by your duration but rather, your donation.

I believe in what you see is what you get, but I also believe in what you see is getting better.

I look forward to the day when business is less about being busy and more about being of service. When Houses of Cards, become Houses of Hearts. We can no longer afford to squander our passion on cold economics. It is time to reclaim our most valuable commodity and devote it to what’s right. Devote it to concern & creation. To meaningful encounters & purpose-bound experiences. May we no longer do business, but build places of thriving instead; ruled by one truth only ~ the wisdom of our hearts.

What the average call excellent, the excellent call average.

Entrepreneur, make today count and but don't let the day count you.

The children are the future, so, let's tell them about tomorrow's hope rather than yesterday's despair.

The theory that something has to be big to have a significant impact is false.

If we throw judgments out, that is exactly what will return to us. What we give is exactly what we will receive. It doesn’t matter if we throw out good or bad. It all comes back. It is a spiritual law.

Truth be told, nobody thought Dell’s direct business model would work, at least back in the early 90s. As Bill Sharpe, head of the advertising agency that held the Dell Canada account from 1996 to 2006, told me, “I had a business partner in California who said, we have a client, Dell. It sells computers over the phone, and ships them to you. I said, ‘There’s no way. Who’s gonna buy a computer over the phone? They’re complicated.

Advice to my younger self:1 Start where you are with what you have2 Try not to hurt other people3 Take more chances4 If you fail, keep trying

The best of all leaders is the one who helps people so that eventually they don’t need him.

At its best, leadership development is not an “event.” It’s a capacity-building endeavor. It’s a process of human growth and development.

Commitment precedes success. What you are committed to doing you will be successful at doing.

The reward is in the middle of hard work for a reason.

Silence leads us back to our purpose, and it ignites creativity and vision.