John P. Kotter Quotes

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there; they cause change. They motivate and inspire others to go in the right direction and they, along with everyone else, sacrifice to get there.

I think that leadership more than anything is about setting a course and describing a vision for people.

Without a vision the people perish.

Leadership is providing inspiration and vision, then developing and empowering others to achieve this vision.

As a leader, your job is to energize people around the mission and vision you've articulated.

Genuine leadership comes from the quality of your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.

Leaders create a sense of urgency. And along with that you have to create a sense of hope and a direction.

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.

As a leader, your job is to share your vision with your followers and either warn them of danger or highlight opportunities coming in the future.

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

A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.

If leadership is about anything, it's about leading. Not leading people back to where they already are, because they don't need that. They're already there.

Not everybody who has a vision is a leader, but every leader has a vision.

Leaders may inspire, but only when the people decide to act does the leader's vision become a movement.

Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.

Leaders have two characteristics: first they are going somewhere, and second they are able to persuade other people to go with them.

The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope.

Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader's arsenal.

Leadership is about calling people to do things beyond themselves.

Leadership is about moving people from where they are to where you hope they'll go.

Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are.

A leader is a dealer in hope.