73 Quotes by Frances Hesselbein

It’s not hard work that wears you out, but the repression of your true personality, and I’ve found a way of working that does not demand that.

People know that pursuing a mission without achieving results is dispiriting; achieving results without a mission is meaningless.

The best part of the character and quality of the leader is expressing who you are in the work you do and how you do it.

It is the quality and the character of the leader that determines the results and performance.

The leader builds dispersed and diverse leadership – distributing leadership to the outermost edges of the circle to unleash the power of shared responsibility.

No matter what business you’re in, everyone in the organisation needs to know why.

If we are to remain mission focused, as we must be if we are to be relevant in an uncertain age, the abandoning those things that do not further the mission is a leadership imperative.

Key to the societal significance of tomorrow’s leaders is the way they embrace the totality of leadership, not just including ‘my organization’ but reaching beyond the walls as well.

You should be a living practicing example of what you are preaching.