Management And Leadership Quotes - Page 3

Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?

If you continue doing what you have done in the past, you will get what you have received in the past.

The Swedes have coined the term 'management by perkele' to portray the Finnish managerial approach. Instead of collectively pondering all the possible alternatives and letting every member of the staff from the cleaner to the MD voice their views, as the Swedes do, the Finns act swiftly and don't waste time on the decision-making process. If something isn't happening quickly enough, it is necessary for the top managers to slam their fists on the table and yell, 'Perkele!' Repeatedly, if necessary.

Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering opportunity.

Leadership is service, not position.

The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that successful ones know that the most unprofitable thing ever manufactured is an excuse.

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

We must always be mindful of who we are being while we are leading.

A car crash at seventy-five miles an hour results in glass and steel strewn about the roadway. Emergency workers attend to the injured drivers, passengers and bystanders, and remove the wreckage. An electronic communication wreck lacks the visual drama, but imparts damage just as real and just as permanent. A momentary lapse in judgment may prove catastrophic for the writer, their family, coworkers, and stakeholders.

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

Never be SARCASTIC. A clever remark might gain you a few laughs but the butt of your remarks will be offended and will remember you for it.

Culture is what happens when the managers are not around.

All businesses -- no matter if they make dog food or software -- don't sell products, they sell solutions.

Most people do not see their words as power.

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

In the Darwinian environment of business, one's most provocative words are naturally selected by competitors to be hurled back at them at the most inopportune moments. Do not arm your adversaries.

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

Billions of dollars worth of research knowledge lie dormant at American universities waiting for the right disruptor to come along and create a business.

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.

Look inward for solutions to your greatest challenges.

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

In life, you get what you believe you deserve.

Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the content is controlled by everyone and no one at the same time.

Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.

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

No matter how slow or long it takes, it is never too late to right a wrong.

If all you are doing is spending time with the struggling members of your church and you are not building proactively into your church's culture, and you are being shortsighted and limiting the effectiveness of your ministry.

You have no idea how destructive and wasteful your infrastructure is because you don't need to use it the way the workforce does... Drive the forklift, use the database, fill out the form, submit it to HR, and find out how long it takes to get a response. Use your own infrastructure.

If you can 'hire tough,' you can 'manage easy.

Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius. ("Kill them all. For the Lord knoweth them that are His." Supposedly said when asked by a Crusader how to distinguish the Cathars from the Catholics.)

The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.

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.

Leadership is the influence of a person(s) on another person(s) which guides their efforts in a specific direction, with more purpose, clarity, and unity than they would have held on their own.

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

Organizational culture is just like the “Operation System” of the organization, you need reboot periodically to keep it running smoothly.

A negative mind will never find success. I have never heard a positive idea come from a person in a negative state.

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

Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.

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

Social context and NOT individual abilities drives performance, success or failure of a team or a project.

Many people get visited by the Lord in a given time but lack the wisdom to navigate in it.

Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.

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.

Be yourself! Don’t try to fabricate your personality in the guise of impressing others.

Knowing that an asteroid is going to hit the earth is not really useful if you are not planning to launch missiles to knock it out of the sky. You have to work massively overtime on the belief that innovation or massive change is going to happen.' — Tom Martin, former VP of marketing

People who feel excluded get angry and act out their anger in the team. No man is an island, no person can function isolated from the group. When you create a team, any kind of team, inclusion is fundamental. Without every member feeling deeply that he or she belongs to that group there is no team.

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.

If you are not willing to give a less experienced qualified professional a chance, don't complain you are charged double for a job worth half.

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.

There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up.

If you can imagine a solution, you can make it happen.

If you don't appreciate your customers, someone else will.

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