Mary Parker Follett Quotes

I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.

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

I'm a businessman. I'm a former legislator, and I'm an executive. And I've been very effective in each one of those positions.

As with any skill, you have to work at leadership. Watch how the best do it, review what you've done, and look at what you might do.

Over the years I've learned that, to be a good manager, you need to have passion, and you need to have a strong character. Without those things, the job is very, very difficult.

I do believe I have certain strengths as a female CEO, such as having another level of awareness through emotional intelligence.

I think if you want to be a successful president or a manager of a team, you need to understand what the business is all about because you have to deal with the business side of the game to be able to do what you need to do.

I definitely learned a lot about how to be more communicative with my crews.

Every year that I have under my belt, I'm a lot more confident and a lot more prepared for the challenges of being a manager.

Having the ability to relate to people is such an important part of management and leadership.

I learned what it is to lead - and above all learnt that leadership is more about being strong on the inside than being loud on the outside.

Galliani is a great leader but can't understand players.

Great leaders, the research shows, are made as they gradually acquire, in the course of their lives and careers, the competencies that make them so effective. The competencies can be learned by any leader, at any point.

Great communication depends on two simple skills-context, which attunes a leader to the same frequency as his or her audience, and delivery, which allows a leader to phrase messages in a language the audience can understand.

We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don't spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I have met don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop

We live in a world that is crying out for better leadership.

Effective leaders do not fear passion. They welcome it. But from time to time passionate discussions digress into personal attacks, and real people get really hurt. In my view, leaders must head that off before it happens.

I'm not sure leaders listen enough, especially to their people. And I've always thought in everything I've tried to do in my life, in the jobs I've had, is that if we can turn our transmitters off and our receivers on more often, we're better leaders and we know more of what is going on and therefore we can lead more effectively.

Leadership ability determines a person's level of effectiveness.

As much as you need a strong personality to build a business from scratch, you also must understand the art of delegation.

Your leadership development strategy is perfectly designed to produce the caliber of leader you currently have.

There are some among the so-called elite who are overbearing and arrogant. I want to foster leaders, not elitists.

The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men.

A good leader needs to know how to follow.

Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.