Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes

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.

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

Leadership is the willingness to put oneself at risk…. Leadership is seeing the possibilities in a situation while others are seeing the limitations…. Leadership is evoking in others the capacity to dream.

For me, I think it's such a notable point to make that a leader had to believe, a leader had to see that potential.

I don't subscribe to, 'Here are the top ten tips to successful leadership,' or, 'How to learn leadership in ten minutes.' A leader is someone who gives positive energy to others which then results in a better change than would have happened. I think everyone is a leader.

Leaders are focused on using their vision and courage to do great things. This means challenging the way things are done and then sharing the journey with others.

Exceptional leaders don't impart just vision, rather they cultivate the emergence of vision.

The important word there is inspire. The key difference between managers and leaders is that managers tell people what to do, while leaders inspire them to do it. Inspiration comes from three things: clarity of one's vision, courage of their conviction and the ability to effectively communicate both of those things.

I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.

I believe to be a leader is to enable others to embrace a vision, initiative or assignment in a way that they feel a sense of purpose, ownership, personal engagement, and common cause. I was very affected as a child by my father's positive example as a civic leader who inspired others to share his commitment to improving our community.

If you want to be a leader whom people follow with absolute conviction, you have to be a likable leader. Tyrants and curmudgeons with brilliant vision can command a reluctant following for a time, but it never lasts. They burn people out before they ever get to see what anyone is truly capable of.

I'm an owner that tends to absolutely be supportive of a coach and his vision if it's a real sharp and smart vision. I really believe in that.

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.

Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

Average leaders inspire people to punch a time clock. Great leaders inspire industry and passion.

My leadership style is to produce a fear of not changing..

We always want our leaders to be great leaders.

Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.

True urgent leadership doesn't drain people. It does the opposite. It energizes them. It makes them feel excited.

There is no finish line to leadership.

The role of a leader is to create a reality and not to be influenced by polls.

Leadership is neither about you or me; it is about something that needs to be done. Leaders figure out how it can be made to happen and get ten or a million people to see that this is the way to do it.

A good leader, in my view, should have a clear vision of the future they want and the society they need to build. They must also have a connection with the people who work for them and be able to mobilise their best energies to create teams where people can be most creative and happy.