Leader Behavior Quotes

If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely on keeping the public in the dark about what they are doing, they would have a powerful incentive to behave better.

Rarely have elected leaders been so intent on defying the public will.

Leadership means setting an example. When you find yourself in a position of leadership, people follow your every move.

Of course, in my country most political leaders are really, well, I suppose I think of them as being, well, not gangsters but more or less the same kind of thing, no? I mean—people who go in for getting elected. What can you expect of a man like that?

The president of the United States should not be tweeting.

It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require.

I regularly see leaders change what they say because they get bored of saying the same thing over and over again. It's not that they vary a few words or change examples, but they change the message.

I think that being a business a leader that treads all over people to get to the top is actually not the way I think to become a successful business leader.

When your leader is misbehaving, it's very easy for other people to follow that.

we should think not only of what the leader does to the group, but also of what the group does to the leader.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

It is possible for leaders or regimes to be cruel, bigoted, twisted in their world views and still make rational calculations with respect to their limits and their self-preservation.