59 Quotes About Definition-of-leadership

The purpose of leadership is to change the world around you in the name of your values, so you can live those values more fully.

Profitability. Growth. Quality. Exceeding customer expectations. These are not examples of values. These are examples of corporate strategies being sold to you as values.

Work/life balance is not about escaping work. It’s about living exactly the way you want to when you’re at work.

True leaders live their values everywhere, not just in the workplace.

Values are deeply held personal beliefs that form your own priority code for living.

Values are the individual biases that allow you to decide which actions are true for you alone.

The worst thing in your own development as a leader is not to do it wrong. It’s to do it for the wrong reasons.

A company can’t buy true emotional commitment from managers no matter how much it’s willing to spend; this is something too valuable to have a price tag. And yet a company can’t afford not to have it.

Leadership creates performance in people because it impacts willingness; it’s a matter of modeling, inspiring, and reinforcing.