Donella Meadows Quotes

As a leader, your job is to energize people around the mission and vision you've articulated.

To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It's about stimulating them. It's about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do that with a purpose.

Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.

Leadership means making people feel good.

One of the signs of natural leaders of men (and women) was their readiness to take the necessary pains to keep their followers with them.

I've learned that positive thinking and encouragement are essential for leadership and progress.

That's part of being a leader, being the guy that people look to and making everybody around you better.

To be a leader you must be able to create positive change.

Leadership is providing inspiration and vision, then developing and empowering others to achieve this vision.

People who are role models for the principles and values of the organization, who buy in and understand the vision of what the organization is trying to accomplish, and have the personality to inspire other people to the vision. You know, that’s what team chemistry and leadership is all about.

Genuine leadership comes from the quality of your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance.

Leadership is about calling people to do things beyond themselves.

The true value of a leader is not measured by the work they do. A leader's true value is measured by the work they inspire others to do.

I aspire to be that, to be a voice of reason one day.

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work.

Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.

There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.