Dysfunctional Leadership Quotes

If you rely on political factions to promote men to office, the people will work to develop instrumental relationships and will not seek to be useful with regard to the law. Thus, a ruler who mistakes reputation for ability when assigning offices will see his state fall into disorder.

No good can come out of sharing responsibility in the cabinet in which the irresponsible elements dominate decisions and policy.

If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle

Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad.

A lot of the dysfunction that exists underneath the surface of a lot of big business corporations is really profound.

From the outside, Yahoo was extremely successful. It was making money; it was still bigger than Google. But when I got there, I learned what a disaster of a company looks like from the inside. There were a lot of vice presidents, and it was basically a turf battle between them.

I think too much of my leadership is done the bad way.

It's unreasonable to me that there's a government in which the culture minister attacks the institutions she's responsible for. The justice minister attacks the institutions she's responsible for. The internal security minister attacks the institutions he's responsible for. The Cabinet attacks the IDF, and the prime minister attacks everyone.

And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration.

We find an organization that is deeply troubled by bad management, by sex and corruption and by a growing lack of confidence in its ability to carry out missions that are given to them.

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

It's like our country is being run by a bunch of bad alcoholic dads right now.