Robin Sharma Quotes

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Leaders who can push themselves beyond their comfort zones and understand how to harness the power of reverse innovation have the chance to become the next great visionaries.

My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better. My job is to pull things together from different parts of the company and clear the ways and get the resources for the key projects. And to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better, coming up with more aggressive visions of how it could be.

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People who bring transformative change have courage, know how to re-frame the problem and have a sense of urgency.

The world is in dreadful need of men who will assume the new leadership - who will have the courage of their own visions and who will recognise clearly that we are only at the beginning of the voyage, and have to learn an entirely new system of seamanship.

The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations.

Entrepreneurs are visionaries - they see things other people don't see.

A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress.

Leadership is no longer about position - but passion. It's no longer about image but impact. This is Leadership 2.0.

Were there no men of vision, all who are blind would be dead.

I try to get people to see what I have. . . . When you run a computer company, you have to get people to buy into your dreams.

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 must be tough enough to fight, tender enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes, humble enough to admit them, strong enough to absorb the pain, and resilient enough to bounce back and keep on moving.

Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.

Try to achieve the impossible and direct your people to ways of achieving it.

Initiating is really and truly difficult, and that's what leaders do. They see something others are ignoring and they jump on it.

Jobs was brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it.

Any great and inspiring leader or organization that ever existed set out to do something completely unrealistic.

We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art of leadership says is possible.

Ignore the people who tell you it won't work, and hire people who embrace your vision.

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.

The manager administers; the leader innovates.

I think what people love about the Steve Jobs story is not just the track record at Apple, but that comeback story, that he was thrown out of Apple, came back and built the company even greater. And that perseverance is so important in terms of entrepreneurship. And nobody is a better role model for that, for all entrepreneurs all over the world than Steve Jobs.

Leaders are the ones who have the courage to go first, to put themselves at personal risk to open a path for others to follow.