Management And Leadership Quotes - Page 2

At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic.

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

There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.

Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people can't.

You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.

Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.

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 written word imparts a gravitas the spoken word lacks. The underlying assumption is that time and thought has been expended on what was written, even if that is not the case.

Insight and drive are all the skills you need. Everything else can be hired.

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

Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.

A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.

A delirious person would think there's only one way, and that way is simple, but the truth is no way of living is simple, and there are many ways like there are many roads, but one must think above the system, and the individual must work strong to avail enough to be satisfied.

An organization's proprietary, internal information is constrained only by an understanding that stake-holders will keep organizational matters within the organization.

Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.

All decisions are taken two levels above the highest level of understanding

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

Problem is a outcome. "Of What?", Is the right question

If life, you get what you believe you deserve.

Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.

You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.

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

Smart entrepreneurs learn that they must fail often and fast.

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.

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Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.

If you don't know the answer to a question, don't guess, don't speculate, don't hypothesize, don't make a joke it by email, tweet, conference call, or at a press conference...Somehow, eventually, the electronic communication surrounding a situation will be made public and clarify and clarify what actually transpired.

The future is dependent on the decisions you make today.

To foster a solution mindset, tell employees that you are not interested in who or what caused the problem. You are only interested in hearing how we plan to go beyond the problem.

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

Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.

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.

It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.

Create and communicate absolute clarity of purpose.

When you master the basics, and execute them well, there’s no need to worry about the score.

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.

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

Those who do not appreciate the value of time are celebrity failures. Success is time management.

The smart strategist allows strategy to be shaped by events. Good reactions can make great strategy. Strategy involves competition of goals, and the risk is the difference between those goals and the ability of the organization to achieve them. So part of the risk is created by the strategy.

Electronic communication has transmuted conversations into durable and accessible records. Revisionist history has gone the way of the phone booth.

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 most important tool you have on a resume is language.

Emails, texts and social media promise the writer the power to be heard…In a society where relinquishing control is viewed as weakness, power is relinquished through every message sent without forethought to the potential consequences.

For a business to strengthen its position on the market, its managers should become skillful at helping their subordinates to set and achieve specific and measurable goals with realistic deadlines and clear expectations. Managers should also mentor employees through challenges, helping them grow and develop new skills.

No one cultivates in a stony-ground, instead he cultivates in a soft-rich ground. Do not expect people to invest in you if you're a lazy type.

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

The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact.

The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have something better.

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

Good management has considerable impact on engagement levels of the employees and drives them towards excellent performances.

People act in ways to maximize their self-interest within a company, so create incentives that align employee's objectives with the organization's mission statement. Reward compliance with core values as much as profitability, especially in the face of competitive pressures.

Adapt and adopt the peer-to-peer and open source models to wider implementation in organisations

No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can't make a difference.

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it happen.

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.

CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.