leadership quotes

Christina Baldwin
To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against.

Robert K. Greenleaf
The only test of leadership is that somebody follows.

Lance Secretan, Industry Week, 10/12/98
Leadership is not so much about technique and methods as it is about opening the heart. Leadership is about inspiration—of oneself and of others. Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes. Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine.

More than anything else today, followers believe they are part of a system, a process that lacks heart. If there is one thing a leader can do to connect with followers at a human, or better still a spiritual level, it is to become engaged with them fully, to share experiences and emotions, and to set aside the processes of leadership we have learned by rote.

Unknown
Blessed is the leader who seeks the best for those he serves.

Peter F. Drucker
Leadership is not magnetic personality—that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people"—that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Robert L. Payton
American philanthropic custom owes much to leadership by business and professional people.

Lao Tzu
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him....But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, "We did it ourselves.

Chinese proverb
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.

Lao Tzu
Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Donald H. McGannon
Leadership is action, not position.

Fred Smith
Leadership is getting people to work for you when they are not obligated.

Walter Lippmann
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

Abigail Adams
Great necessities call forth great leaders.

Charles S. Lauer
Leaders don't force people to follow—they invite them on a journey.

Anon
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.

Mary D. Poole
Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.

Marian Anderson
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.

James L. Fisher
The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence.

Harold J. Seymour
Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present, and keep the promise to posterity.

Peter Ferdinand Drucker
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Harold J. Seymour
When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow—to the end and at all costs.

Charles deGaulle
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

Unkown
A good leader inspires others with confidence in him; a great leader inspires them with confidence in themselves.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers.

Tacitus
Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader.

Tom Landry
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.

Max DePree
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.

Warren Bennis
Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.

John F. Kennedy

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Edgar Powell
No organization is stronger than the quality of its leadership, or ever extends its constituency far beyond the degree to which its leadership is representative.

James L. Fisher
Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Manual on military leadership
Good leaders develop through a never-ending process of self-study, education, training, and experience.

Harold J. Seymour
When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow—to the end and at all costs.

Chinese proverb
He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

Donald H. McGannon
Leadership is action, not position.

Bernd Brecher
There are many elements to a campaign.Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Anthony T. Dadovano
A good leader is not the person who does things right, but the person who finds the right things to do.

Talleyrand
I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Walter Lippmann
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

Abigail Adams
Great necessities call forth great leaders.

Charles S. Lauer
Leaders don't force people to follow—they invite them on a journey.

Harold S. Hulbert
Children need love especially when they don't deserve it.

Ralph Nader
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Jesse Jackson
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

Knute Rockne - Professional Football Coach
I have to get the most energy out of a man and have discovered that it cannot be done if he hates another man. Hate blocks his energy and he isn't up to par until he eliminates it and develops a friendly feeling...(towards all his teammates.)

John Maxwell
The first step to leadership is servanthood.

Max DePree (The Art of Leadership)
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality

management quotes

Peter F. Drucker

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'. They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but 'we' gets the credit.... This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.”


Peter F. Drucker
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager


Peter F. Drucker
“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.”

Teamwork Quotes

Unknown

It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.

Unknown

There is no "I" in "TEAMWORK".

Unknown

Teamwork: Simply stated, it is less me and more we.

Unknown

TEAM = Together Everyone Achieves More

Andrew Carnegie

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

Unknown

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Unknown

Teamwork is working together — even when apart.

Ian Fleming

Teamwork activities is a process not a goal 

Ian Fleming

Team performance requires the participation of all people in difficult and laborious administrative challenge is for all those involved is significant.

Vince Lombardi (1913-1970), football coach for the NFL

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society."

Henry Ford

Coming together is a beginning.

Keeping together is progress.

Working together is success.

Bruce Colet, Coach, Bengals

The era of the rugged individual is giving way to the era of the team player.

Everyone is needed, but no one is necessary.

Vince Lombardi (1913-1970), football coach for the NFL

Benjamin Franklin

We must all hang together,

or assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

Thomas Edison, when asked why he had a team of twenty-one assistants

If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.

Stephen Covey

Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.

Max Depree

The key elements in the art of working together are how to deal with change, how to deal with conflict, and how to reach our potential...the needs of the team are best met when we meet the needs of individuals persons.

R. Meredith Belbin

Do you want a collection of brilliant minds or a brilliant collection of minds?

Baltasar Gracion, Spanish Priest

The path to greatness is along with others.

Norman Shidle

A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of the others.

Robert F. Bales

Effective teamwork will not take the place of knowing how to do the job or how to manage the work. Poor teamwork, however, can prevent effective final performance. And it can also prevent team members from gaining satisfaction in being a member of a team and the organization.

Dennis Kinlaw

Teamplayer: One who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas, empowering others and developing trust.

Buchholz and Roth

Wearing the same shirts doesn't make you a team

Jason Kidd upon being drafted to the Dallas Mavericks

We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

Buchholz and Roth

Synergism is the simultaneous actions of separate entities which together have greater total effect than the sum of their individual effects.

Casey Stengel

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.

Doug Smith

Teams share the burden and divide the grief.

Tom Bouchard

Teams are successful when they are focused, have a short cycle time, and are supported by the executives.

Coach Phil Jackson Chicago Bulls

The strength of the team is each individual member...the strength of each member is the team.

Katzenbach & Smit

A demanding performance challenge tends to create a team.

Marvin Weisbord

Teamwork is the quintessential contradiction of a society grounded in individual achievement.

Will Schutz

Team members who feel threatened but who are not aware of it become rigid — and that stops teamwork.

Barbara Glacel & Emile Robert Jr.

A team is more than a collection of people. It is a process of give and take.

Mark Twain

Synergy — the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.

Ned Lautenbach

Teamwork is the lynchpin in our long term success.

Michael Jordan

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

Joe Paterno

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

A self-reinforcing upward spiral: performance stimulating pride stimulating performance.

Max DePree

Without forgiveness, there can be no real freedom to act within a group.

Katzenbach & Smith

The same dynamics that promote performance also support learning and behavioral change.

Dennis Kinlaw

Work and self-worth are the two factors in pride that interact with each other and that tend to increase the strong sense of pride found in superior work teams. When people do something of obvious worth, they feel a strong sense of personal worth.

Dr. Rob Gilbert

Working together works.

H.E. Luccock

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it.

Richard Wellins, William Byham, Jeanne Wilson

Teams are not ends in themselves; they are a means by which to achieve other organizational goals.

Sandra Richardson, OD Consultant

Effective teamwork is all about making a good, well-balanced salad not whipping individuals into a single batch of V8.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Men have never been individually self-sufficient.

Douglas McGregor

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Katzenbach & Smith

Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams.

Paul McCartney

I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity... to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.

Benjamin Franklin

We must indeed all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

Lou Holtz, former Notre Dame football coach

All winning teams are goal-oriented. Teams like these win consistently because everyone connected with them concentrates on specific objectives. They go about their business with blinders on; nothing will distract them from achieving their aims.

Paul Bear Bryant

In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first-ahead of personal glory.

Bud Wilkinson, football coach (1916 )

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Vince Lombardi (1913-1970), football coach for the NFL

Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Katzenbach & Smith

Teamwork represents a set of values that encourage behaviors such as listening and constructively responding to points of view expressed by others, giving others the benefit of the doubt, providing support to those who need it, and recognizing the interests and achievements of others.

Vince Lombardi, football coach for the NFL (1913-1970)

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Robert Yates

It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about who gets the credit.

Margaret Carty

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

A Harvey Block

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original. They are rarely useful. The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Katzenbach & Smith

Fun is only real and sustainable if it feeds off the team's purpose and performance aspirations.

Vince Lombardi, football coach for the NFL (1913-1970)

Individual commitment to a group effort-that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Robert Crandall

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

B. Dodge

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dr. Allan Fromme

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Debra Mancuso

Win together, lose together, play together, stay together.

Katzenbach & Smith

Real teams don't emerge unless individuals on them take risks involving conflict, trust, interdependence and hard work.