Leadership Strategies Quotes

it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.

It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them.

A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from snares, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves.

Over the last few years, I've started to look more closely at the way coaches work to learn from them - not just here at the club but with the international team as well.

Governing Yemen is like riding a lion: once you get on you cannot get off.

Leadership is what you need to learn next

They fire coaches before players.

Everyone says there's a lack of leadership in the world these days. I think we should all be thankful, because the only reason for leadership is to convince people to do things that are either dangerous (like invading another country) or stupid (working extra hard without extra pay).

We live in a world that is crying out for better leadership.

There's no better example of how to lead a difficult employee than to have a child. You have another kind of knowledge from your children that's actually applicable outside of childbearing.

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".

When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.

I always thought there were some people who were just destined to be disengaged in their jobs because that was their personality, and no matter how hard managers tried, there wasn't much they could do with some of those people.

There exist better models of decisionmaking, for the governance of states, corporations and other large organizations, for example in Germany. We need to study such models and promising pathways on which our existing decisionmaking procedures can be gradually reformed.

It's often said that leadership is the art of getting people to do what you want, and making them think it's what they want. This captures a lot of what Abraham Lincoln did.

In Seattle, I've talked about how Pete Carroll is such... I'm kind of surprised at the variety of styles that successful coaches can have. Some are very communicative and positive and energized - like, Pete Carroll has all that in spades. Some of them are more cerebral; some are more directive.

Business leaders shape public opinion.

I believe a big part of leadership is about winning the moment.

I've seen it again and again in my consulting: Most teams are too large to be innovative, despite their leaders' best intentions.

Lead from the front - but don t leave your base behind.

Strong leadership demands more than the willingness to use force. It means directing the use of the right tools at the right time for the right purpose and the right cause.

The aim should be to work on the method of management.

Model communes are the ones where the leaders lie the best and the biggest.

I have found that leadership is leadership is leadership. It applies whether you are in government or in corporate life or in non-profit life.

I want to tell people to read 'The Prince' by Machiavelli - check that one out. It's just changed my attack so - I think so much more inwardly.