Jacqueline Novogratz Quotes

In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.

There is a new model of leadership in the world that rides on the premise that every single person in the organisation can be a leader. Titles are important for structure and order, but real power does not come from titles.

You can’t do leadership alone.

The leader builds dispersed and diverse leadership - distributing leadership to the outermost edges of the circle to unleash the power of shared responsibility.

I don't want to over generalize, but I believe that women are typically drawn to leadership styles that focus on consensus building, effective listening and working in teams. That's certainly been my leadership style, and I think it's been very successful.

You can't run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them.

Part of me loves to control and to exert power, but it's not the best part of me at all. What I am slowly learning is that allowing others to have power too makes us a better organisation - many brains are simply better than one.

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

We can’t leave the job of leadership to the leaders.

… leadership is not a one man show.

Asking for people's help - rather than directing it - is almost always the smart way of doing things, regardless of the stakes.

Business is usually a team sport. There isn't one great person sitting there directing things. You can't run an effective business like that.

One of the things I realised as I learned to manage a rehearsal room is that the best idea always has to win, and it doesn't matter where the idea comes from.

The effective leader recognizes that she is more dependent on her people than they are on her. Walk softly.

Leadership is a concept we often resist. It seems immodest, even self-aggrandizing, to think of ourselves as leaders. But if it is true that we are part of a community, then leadership is everyone's vocation, and it can be an evasion to insist that it is not. When we live in the close-knit ecosystem called community, everyone follows and everyone leads.

In a world that is changing as rapidly as this one, we need to think differently about leadership. Leading is not done by those few in high places, but by parents and teachers and managers and those governing -- all working together to create the world that we want.

The best leader does not ask people to serve him, but the common end. The best leader has not followers, but men and women working with him.

Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.

A real leader is not the top dog who merely shouts down orders. a leader is one who holds the space for the brilliance of others.

If you can do it better than me, then you do it.

I don't know where we should take this company, but I do know that if I start with the right people, ask them the right questions, and engage them in vigorous debate, we will find a way to make this company great.

A leader has a sound program, has a good policy, and then brings people together to solve problems.

Leadership isn't about simply being in charge and treating your people like soldiers and barking orders. Leadership is sharing your knowledge and your direction so that others grow and reach their potential.

We are only in charge when we are willing to let others take charge.

The strongest leaders do not command, they empower