Henry Cloud Quotes

I think it's very important, I think for any leader as you go through a career you have to learn the leadership lessons.

Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs.

A CEO needs to build their own team.

The Leadership Training Institute of America is a cultural think tank providing training and opportunity in leadership development and cultural dynamics.

Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.

When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people.

It is very important that a leader in the hotel industry be both creative, I think, and compassionate.

Showing leadership doesn't mean every employee will run the organization; that would lead to chaos. Businesses do need someone to set the vision and then lead the team to it.

I had the best teacher there can be in man management or managing a football club.

Leadership is all about emotional intelligence. Management is taught, while leadership is experienced.

For me to be as effective as possible, I intend to sharpen those skills I need to successfully lead an organization that is growing in size and complexity with each passing year.

I would like to be a manager, to organize everything in training, see if my philosophy could work, and give it to the team.

As always I am focused on training and coaching my team.

But because our organization has grown so much and in so many different ways, the delegation process places responsibility and authority on the shoulders of people you can watch grow and watch the way they treat others.

Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset.

A C.E.O.'s job is leadership, problem solving, and team building. I've done that my whole career.

We started Kotter International to improve leaders' ability to deal with big, important transformations in organizations - and in their lives.

Leadership is hard to train on.

If I look myself as a manager, I have lot more to learn.

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.

I love the ability to work with very good managers, and to provide the right incentives for them, and truly become a partner with that management, and make that management take a long view.

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.

I used to think my job as a CEO meant managing metrics and meeting goals, but I've realised now that's it's about managing my board and employees.

Managers develop organisations; leaders develop people.