Marcus Buckingham Quotes

True urgent leadership doesn't drain people. It does the opposite. It energizes them. It makes them feel excited.

Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.

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

People are more inclined to be drawn in if their leader has a compelling vision. Great leaders help people get in touch with their own aspirations and then will help them forge those aspirations into a personal vision.

Effective leaders share two intertwined attributes: an unbridled level of confidence about where their organizations are headed, and the ability to bring people along.

Whether you are running a business, an industry, or a nation - what is needed are insight, integrity, and inspiration.

The ability to connect and influence people, that's the job of a leader. And we're all leaders at some level.

Leadership defines what the future should look like, aligns people with that vision, and inspires them to make it happen despite the obstacles.

Genuine leadership comes from the quality of your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance.

The greatest leaders don't rule. They inspire

Every human endeavor has leaders and followers, and your job as a leader is to inspire.

I see some parallels [with Barack Obama] but I don't see the leadership that this guy [John F.Kennedy] had of other men and women. It's more than being the smartest guy in room.

Leadership is the willingness to put oneself at risk…. Leadership is seeing the possibilities in a situation while others are seeing the limitations…. Leadership is evoking in others the capacity to dream.

We always want our leaders to be great leaders.

Leadership flows from inner character and integrity of ambition, which inspires others to lend themselves to your organization's mission.

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.

The first job of a leader-at work or at home-is to inspire trust. It's to bring out the best in people by entrusting them with meaningful stewardships, and to create an environment in which high-trust interaction inspires creativity and possibility.

The first job of a leader is to define a vision for the organization...the capacity to translate vision into reality.

A great leader has the ability to instill within his people confidence in themselves.

The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders - people who not only have enormous amounts of energy, but who can energize those whom they lead.

Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow

Leadership is providing inspiration and vision, then developing and empowering others to achieve this vision.

True leaders inspire us to be bigger and do things we are afraid of doing.

Leadership (according to John Sculley) revolves around vision, ideas, direction, and has more to do with inspiring people as to direction and goals than with day-to-day implementation. A leader must be able to leverage more than his own capabilities. He must be capable of inspiring other people to do things without actually sitting on top of them with a checklist.

Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.