Jeremy Heimans Quotes

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

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

I believe the director's primary role is to create an atmosphere where his company can be created.

Set a clear, easy-to-understand vision for your company, and make it be a mission people believe in.

Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.

As the leader, you're empowering talent. Once you've given the direction, it's a joy to see it put into action, to see people on every level of the company carrying out the strategy.

Good leaders organize and align people around what the team needs to do. Great leaders motivate and inspire people with why they're doing it. That's purpose. And that's the key to achieving something truly transformational.

I discovered that as a founder and now CEO, my commitment to and passion for Affectiva is super contagious. It is contagious with my team and at internal company meetings, injecting a new energy and sense of camaraderie.

Good managers ensure good outcomes, but great leaders can deliver a vision by getting people to work together.

As a leader, you have to have a vision that inspires people around you.

Leadership involves building an esprit de corps, the creation of a sense of purpose in pursuit of noble and clear objectives.

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.

I don't need a captain's band to lead a team to victory.

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing.

I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

I learned that leadership is about falling in love with the people and the people falling in love with you. It is about serving the people with selflessness, with sacrifice, and with the need to put the common good ahead of personal interests.

Fashion is much more collaborative than one might think. You have to have an idea and vision, and you have to communicate that vision to a team of people, and you have to create an environment that allows those people to give the best that they can give.

Even in an organization that's doing something big and bold, there's the mundane, day-to-day execution work of keeping it going. But people need to stay connected to the boldness, to the vision, and stay plugged in to the main vein of the dream.

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.

I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader.

The most challenging part of being CEO is communicating to 200,000 people what you want done.

Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.