8,953 Quotes About Leadership

Feelings trigger thoughts. Some thoughts drive actions. Being ignorant of what feelings are driving your thoughts and actions, is being emotionally unaware.

Wherever there is human intervention, there is subjective prejudice. Systems implementation is the only solution for efficiency.

You can't genuinely be inspired, if you are not emotionally self-aware.

To build a long-term, successful enterprise, when you don't close a sale, open a relationship.

If you don't understand the bigger picture CONTEXT, you have little chance of effectively managing the consequences or the constraints.

Leaders proactively find opportunities to change the status quo, while managers reactively rely on it.

Finding time for strategic leadership means finding ways to be less occupied with management activities. Leaders must prioritize and delegate work, eliminate low valuedistractions, avoid micromanaging, and be selective with the meetings that they attend.

Micromanagement has no place in good leadership. An effective leader influences others to be productive largely through positive relationships. A micromanager cannot trust others, thus, cannot create the positive relationships that define a good leader.

Great leaders understand that as relationships grow, differences diminish.