Frances Hesselbein Quotes

Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.

I always liked the idea of leadership and being a captain.

Showing leadership doesn't mean every employee will run the organization; that would lead to chaos. Businesses do need someone to set the vision and then lead the team to it.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Some people are really good at the visionary role. They're like third grade teachers who tell people the vision and values over and over and over until they get it right, right, right. But they're not implementers. If they're good leaders, they gather people around them who can take the implementation role and move it forward.

Leadership is always about change: it's not about mobilising people to do what they've always done well to continue to do it well.

As the leader, you're empowering talent. Once you've given the direction, it's a joy to see it put into action, to see people on every level of the company carrying out the strategy.

As a leader, your job is to share your vision with your followers and either warn them of danger or highlight opportunities coming in the future.

Good managers ensure good outcomes, but great leaders can deliver a vision by getting people to work together.

You have to be sort of an emotional steward to really get a business to do something hard - to take people up the hill, to conquer the mountain, to sack the city. You have got to be a maniac.

Gerard Houllier is a great coach. He made me grow. He gave me chances in big games, which raised my confidence. It opened my eyes to what I could do. It was through him that I managed to trust myself.

Leadership is more than just managing economic reforms. Leadership means giving broad direction, take up challenges which other people cannot do.

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there; they cause change. They motivate and inspire others to go in the right direction and they, along with everyone else, sacrifice to get there.

Without a vision the people perish.

The job of a leader today is not to create followers. It’s to create more leaders.

It takes a leader to know a leader, grow a leader, and show a leader.

Leaders are visionaries. They see the outcome. Leaders are communicators. They tell us what they're seeing. They hold the dream, letting us feel that it's possible. Our minds open up to what they show us could be. We dream with them. We get excited with them, drawing on all our abilities to create the future.