Dee Hock Quotes

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.

Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.

Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to looking after your people and ensuring that, from top to bottom, everyone feels part of the team.

Leadership requires a blend of strategy, persuasion, inspiration and motivation. It is based on respect more than fear.

Leadership involves persuasion, and conciliation, and education and patience. It's long, slow, tough work. That is the only kind of leadership I know or will believe in, or will practice.

If I can be a leader, I will.

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

What makes a leader great is not the fact that she (or he) has all the answers, but the ability to inspire and empower us to find the answers.

Leadership is more about clarity than it is about control.

Leadership does not depend on being right.

Leadership is influence.

I've always been a leader. Every team I've played on, I've led my way.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.

Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

If I'm a leader, I have a mission.

Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.

Leadership is an ever-evolving position.

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

It's through a leader's actions - what he or she does and says on a daily basis - that the essence of great leadership becomes apparent.

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'