Leadership Styles Quotes
Leadership Styles Quote of the day
Tomorrow's leaders will not lead dictating from the front, nor pushing from the back. They will lead from the centre - from the heart
Leadership is not just some empty formulas but establishing deep connection at soul levels through service, integrity, passion, perseverance and equanimity.
Do you think your people struggle with being true to themselves? Do their values match up with their work?
Companies should be the best possible place to practice fulfillment, to live out values and to realize deep connectivity and purpose.
The high quality of a company’s customer experience rarely has anything to do with the high price of their product.
Managers know what they want most: to be allowed to achieve success by leveraging who they are, not by compromising it.
Leaders make a lot of mistakes but they admit those mistakes to themselves and change because of 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.
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.
Any expert will tell you that if you want emotionally committed relationships then people must be allowed to be true to who they are.
Success for Managers means: I want to be in healthy relationships. I want a real connection with people I spend so much time with.
Values are the individual biases that allow you to decide which actions are true for you alone.
Careful now: even a financially rewarding, intellectually stimulating work environment isn’t the same as living your own values.
Your values are your essence: an undistorted mirror showing you at your pure, attractive best.
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.
Hard-core results come from igniting the massive power of emotional commitment. Are your people committed?
At the different stages of recognition, reflection, and redress, practicing compassion provides potentially world-saving opportunities which otherwise likely would not exist.
In leadership, the way up is down. Serve before you get served
Do not allow your inner doubts to keep you from achieving what you can do.
When your intuition is strong, follow it.
Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act decisively without needing to know why.
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.
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.
A boss in essence is every woman willing to try, push, succeed, fail but ultimately do the work in her lifescape to make her mark on the world the way she wants to draw it.
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.
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.
The different kinds of work require different people to perform the task. You must fulfil your specific task.
We are endowed with different kinds of gifts for different kinds of services.
Profitability. Growth. Quality. Exceeding customer expectations. These are not examples of values. These are examples of corporate strategies being sold to you as values.
Human behavior is only unpredictable and dangerous if you don’t start from humanity in the first place.
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.
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.
What first separates a leader from a normal human being? A leader knows who they are as a human being.
Work/life balance is not about escaping work. It’s about living exactly the way you want to when you’re at work.
When you’re a manager, you work for your company. When you’re a leader, your company works for you.
Why live my personal values at work? This is an excellent question to ask. If your attorneys are planning an insanity defense.
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.
Instead of waiting for a leader you can believe in, try this: Become a leader you can believe in.
Your company is its own competition and can deliver itself debilitating blows the competition only dreams of.
There will be plenty of other problems in the future. This is as good a time as any to get ahead of them.