Leadership Traits Quotes - Page 2

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.

Becoming a great leader doesn’t mean being perfect. it means living with your imperfections.

Until you fall in love with positive change, becoming passionate about improving the status quo, you won’t become a leader.

Solitude helps the soul remember that life andwork have two completely different meanings. It remindsus that we were created for greatness in relationship withothers, not task lists and spreadsheets.

Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons and daughters of a given nation strive to emulate their leader's greatness. Only then will a nation be truly great, when a leader inspires and produces citizens worthy of becoming future leaders, honorable decision makers and peacemakers. And in these times, a great leader must be extremely brave. Their leadership must be steered only by their conscience, not a bribe.

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

A leader’s goal is to improve on upon the past and if your goal is to remain where you are, doing the same things you have done times and times again, you can’t lead.

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?

Effective decision-making can be seen as an optimal link between memory of the past, ground-realities of the present and insights of the future.

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.

Pick a leader who will keep jobs in your country by offering companies incentives to hire only within their borders, not one who allows corporations to outsource jobs for cheaper labor when there is a national employment crisis. Choose a leader who will invest in building bridges, not walls. Books, not weapons. Morality, not corruption. Intellectualism and wisdom, not ignorance. Stability, not fear and terror. Peace, not chaos. Love, not hate. Convergence, not segregation. Tolerance, not discrimination. Fairness, not hypocrisy. Substance, not superficiality. Character, not immaturity. Transparency, not secrecy. Justice, not lawlessness. Environmental improvement and preservation, not destruction. Truth, not lies.

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.

Make a difference, change the game for the better, leave a legacy, be a guide that someone else can follow and make better, and then someone else will follow that and make that better.

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.

There is nothing worse for a young convert than to be thrust into leadership without mentoring and ongoing coaching because the devil relishes these vulnerable souls.

When picking a leader, choose a peacemaker. One who unites, not divides. A cultured leader who supports the arts and true freedom of speech, not censorship.

Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time criticizing the lives and work of others. Do what matters most to you and make a difference doing that.

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.

You can’t move up in the staircase of leadership unless you are emotionally intelligent.

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

A fool can't help but be a fool, but when others follow, he makes a fool of us all.

Winning doesn't necessarily mean you'll walk away with a trophy. Sometimes winning means you dared to show up at all to see the shocked look of your rivals.

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.

Live a life of purpose. Be a voice to be reckoned with. Do not be lost in the midst of the crowd. Contribute your own quota to the transformation going on where God planted you.

Always assume your assumptions about others are wrong. Because often, they are

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

It is as simple as that. Birds fly because they have wings and so when you can’t grow the wings, you can’t be called a bird. Leaders make impacts because they create new ideas and so if you can’t think of any new innovative ideas, you can’t be a leader.

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.

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

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

The formula for successful leadership has changed little, if at all over the centuries. It isn’t leadership that changes over time, rather where the leaders need to take their people that changes.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

An angry leader is a scared leader or a hurt leader or a frustrated leader but most of all they are a vulnerable leader.

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

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

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

A mindset that understands order, is a mindset that can understand leadership.

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

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

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