Eric Shinseki Quotes

The military does very well taking average people and making them very good leaders.

As a former Captain in the Army National Guard, I trained hundreds of soldiers to lead troops into combat.

We have good soldiers but crummy generals.

No American officer was a proven commander when we entered the First Word War I…. No one had ever commanded a large body of troops. General Pershing, who was selected, had only commanded a brigade in the Mexican war.

You have to give the soldiers, the Army, a clear vision.

I started my career in the U.S. military. Traditionally, in the military... you either start with a technical background or a more leadership-focused one. I took the leadership path.

To add growth, lead followers - to multiply, lead leaders.

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.

My father had risen in the British Army under the revolutionary aegis of General Montgomery, who was mad about training for battle, not muddling into disaster.

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.

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

After I graduated from school, I enrolled in the military college, a cadet school. This is the first stage of military training; it instills discipline and various qualities required for military life.

I am a general. My soldiers are the keys and I have to command them.

I fell in love with the topic of leadership. For three decades, that has been a major focus of my hands-on work: listening to and working with leaders, their teams and their organizations.

I don't run a democracy. I train troops to defend democracy.

He is a butcher, and is not fit to be at the head of an army.

You need a place that will be the holy grail of Army professionalism.

Generals do not always run wars the way they would like to, nor the troops under them.

Throughout history, the organizational evolution of the military has been inextricably linked with that of the business world.

I joined the Marines, passed Special Forces selection, and became a young leader in the military.

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

To be a director, you need to be reliable, on time, confident, calm, all of those things you see demonstrated in the military.

You'd like to transition with continuity, have people in your own organization rise up and continue forward, whether in coaching or personnel or players.

To be the best next-generation leader you can be, you must enlist the help of others. Self-evaluation is helpful, but evaluation from someone else is essential. You need a leadership coach. Coaching enables a leader to go further faster.

Perhaps the central task of the leader of leaders thus becomes the development of other leaders.