Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.

Being the leader means you have to make life or death decisions sometimes.

Now there are times when I have to make big decisions as I'm now running a company and that it's OK to go with being respected first.

The leader of a company needs to have a decision tree in his head - if this happens, we go this way, but if it winds up like that, then we go this other way.

Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.

Serious times require strong leadership.

Being in command means making tough decisions. Not being in command means shutting up and doing what you're told. --Artemis Fowl

My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions.

Houllier couldn’t deal with players expressing any anger or questioning any of his decisions

The goal of leadership is not to eradicate uncertainty but rather to navigate it.

Never delegate. Always empower.

Level 5 leaders are fanatically driven, infected with an incurable need to produce sustained results. They are resolved to do whatever it takes to make the company great, no matter how big or hard the decisions.

No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?

When you're president, you can't vote present. You have to make a decision. Sometimes it's a split second decision. You don't have time to think about it. You've got to actually decide.

It is from the center that leaders must lead.

Leadership is different from management, but not for the reasons most people think.

Don't you dare get to the top and not know what to do.

I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.

This is all about having great leaders who can drive agile innovation and agile decision-making.

I just was non-political and didn't see myself as a person who could push people around, make their decision, you know, and tell them how lousy their work was.

One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better.

An American leader would be derelict of duty if he did not seek to understand all his options in such unprecedented circumstances. Presidents Lincoln during the Civil War and Roosevelt in the lead-up to World War II sought legal advice about the outer bounds of their power - even if they did not always use it. Our leaders should ask legal questions first, before setting policy or making decisions in a fog of uncertainty.

You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct.

The position of power and having to make decisions that you don't necessarily want to make is always good conflict and good drama.

You need those people to also have power and authority, and in a way that has been the story of my career.