Tacitus Quotes

A good leader... maintains a balance between emotional drive and sound thinking.

Self-delusion is rarely a good strategy for effective management.

Great leadership can be a difficult thing to pin down and understand. You know a great leader when you're working for one, but even they can have a hard time articulating what it is that makes their leadership so effective.

I think for leadership positions, emotional intelligence is more important than cognitive intelligence. People with emotional intelligence usually have a lot of cognitive intelligence, but that's not always true the other way around.

People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason in a way that animals can't do.

Some of our finest leaders were not intellectuals at all, and I admire them enormously because they weren't. Harry Truman wasn't.

Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.

Facts matter. Science matters. Reason matters. Mitt Romney has shown an inability to respect any of the three. President Barack Obama not only respects them, he relies on them. He is an overwhelming and unquestioned choice to continue as president.

It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

My view is, the most important thing as prime minister is trying to make the right judgments. In order to make good judgments, you need good advice; you need good principles, and you need a clear head, and you need to have a sense of equilibrium.

You're born with some things inside you that will allow you to lead, but I think you have to take the bull by the horns. You have to want that leadership position, and then there are things you can do to develop that.

I'm always quite rational.

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

The real leader holds the power, not just the position.

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.

Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.

[T]here's a difference between confident leadership and empty-headed delusion or cheerleading. And this is a difference that many CEOs miss.

[George W. Bush] has balls. And he's a leader. Unfortunately his balls and leadership are in the service of shitty ideas. We need his balls on someone who thinks right.

If I Had To Sum Up In One Word The Qualities That Make Up A Good Manager, I'd Say Decisiveness.

Though leadership may be hard to define, the one characteristic common to all leaders is the ability to make things happen.

The heart of a statesman should be in his head.

As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.

Distilling truth from overwhelming amounts of information is the essence of leadership.