Patrick Lencioni Quotes

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. Many people who approach the area of vision in leadership have it backwards. They believe that if the cause is good enough, people will automatically buy in and follow. But that's not how leadership works. People don't follow worthy causes; they follow worthy leaders with a cause they can believe in. They buy into the leader first.

A leader must be inspired by the people before a leader can inspire the people.

It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere.

True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.

The leader finds the dream and then the people. The people find the leader and then the dream.

You know you're a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.

You have achieved excellence as a leader when people will follow you anywhere if only out of curiosity.

Leadership is having the trust of the people are trying to lead.

Great leaders inspire incredible loyalty in their followers and subordinates.

Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality.

Leading is not the same as being the leader. Being the leader means you hold the highest rank, either by earning it, good fortune or navigating internal politics. Leading, however, means that others willingly follow you—not because they have to, not because they are paid to, but because they want to.

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

Those who lead inspire us Whether they are individuals or organizations, we follow those who lead not because we have to but because we want to.

Great leaders inspire, they don't manipulate.

You dont need to convince everyone. All you need to do is motivate people who choose to follow you.

The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.

When the leader lacks confidence, the followers lack commitment.

People don't follow titles, they follow courage.

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.

People look for their leadership to lead.

May the spirit of devotion to duty which inspires us always dominate this Committee's conferences!

Followers need to see how things will get better and what that future might look like. Leaders need to build that foundation of stability, and hope sits on top of that.

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.