73 Quotes by Frances Hesselbein

If you are building a corporate culture of greatness, you have to define culture on your own terms and with the people you work with.

In 1976, I was invited to interview for the CEO position of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A.

I always had this philosophy that only the best is good enough for those who serve girls.

I had read everything Peter Drucker ever wrote.

Move beyond the old assumptions, practices, and language that can be barriers to equal access.

Management is the set of skills that can help get things done. Unfortunately, its practice is too often a bag of manipulative tricks to advance someone's own interests, which creates cynicism.

Good leaders make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

Not long after I was married, World War II began. My husband John volunteered for the Navy and was sent to Pensacola for training as a Naval Combat Air Crew photographer. It seemed a strange assignment for a young newspaper editor and writer, already exempt, but off he went, saying goodbye to our 18-month-old Johnny and me.

It takes courage for a leader to identify and confront self-imposed barriers, to put in place the personal strategies required to unleash the energy, innovation, and commitment to self-development.