Leadership Styles Quotes

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

Emotional commitment means unchecked, unvarnished devotion to the company and its success; any legendary organizational performance is the result of emotionally committed managers.

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

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

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

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

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

Do not allow your inner doubts to keep you from achieving what you can do.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The leaders and followers of the Harlem Renaissance were every bit as intent on using Black culture to help make the United States a more functional democracy as they were on employing Black culture to 'vindicate' Black people.

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

At the different stages of recognition, reflection, and redress, practicing compassion provides potentially world-saving opportunities which otherwise likely would not exist.

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

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.

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

In leadership, the way up is down. Serve before you get served

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

Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act decisively without needing to know why.

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

The real power of a leader is in the number of minds he can reach, hearts he can touch, souls he can move, and lives he can change.

Tomorrow's leaders will not lead dictating from the front, nor pushing from the back. They will lead from the centre - from the heart

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

I strongly believe that leadership is an art, not a science. I've learned that leadership can be innate or it can be learned. However, I don't believe anyone was truly born to be a great leader. Great leaders are formed over a long period of time through a series of opportunities and experiences. Without opportunities, even the greatest natural leader among us may never become known for great leadership.

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

Sometimes servant leaders focus on the servitude part and forget the leader part. Great leadership isn't about abdication of power, it about the benevolent application of that power.

If the surprise outcome of the recent UK referendum - on whether to leave or remain in the European Union - teaches us anything, it is that supposedly worthy displays of democracy in action can actually do more harm than good. Witness a nation now more divided; an intergenerational schism in the making; both a governing and opposition party torn to shreds from the inside; infinitely more complex issues raised than satisfactory solutions provided. It begs the question 'Was it really all worth it' ?

We are endowed with different kinds of gifts for different kinds of services.

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.

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.

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?

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

Ineffective leadership, is the plight of followers who anoint power to the autocratic persons who's visions are not founded but are rather arbitrary in their nature.

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

People don’t follow you because you are nice, they follow you because they believe the place you are taking them is better than the place they are.

Emotional commitment is a personal choice. Managers understand this even if their companies don’t.

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.

Leadership is not just some empty formulas but establishing deep connection at soul levels through service, integrity, passion, perseverance and equanimity.

Some days of my vagabond life I read Arthur Schopenhauer and others Friedrich Nietzsche. I was a humble learner – an empty vessel - at the feet of the legends of human history. I was a seeker of truth, travelling through time while quenching my thirst for knowledge. And a humble learner of today becomes a strong leader of tomorrow.

Seven Ways To Get Ahead in Business:1. Be forward thinking 2. Be inventive, and daring3. Do the right thing4. Be honest and straight forward5. Be willing to change, to learn, to grow6. Work hard and be yourself7. Lead by example

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

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

When your intuition is strong, follow it.

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

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

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.

Love is where leadership begins.

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

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.

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