301 Quotes About Management-and-leadership

Persistence is useful if you are trying to learn a new skill or acquire particular knowledge...but persistence directed primarily toward your non-talents is self-destructive.

The hands-off manager is a different kind of visionary. The hands-off manager's vision is not a vision for what the company will be in 10 years. It’s a vision that sees into the potential of his people right here and now. Your success as a hands-off manager will be directly related to your ever-increasing ability to see more in your people than they’re seeing in themselves. The next step is inviting them to your vision of them.

You Work For Your Team, They Don't Work For You.

By telling you that you can transform your non-talents into talents, these less effective managers are not only setting you up to fail, they are intrinsically blaming you for your inevitable failure. This is perverse.

You can't run at your maximum if you're always pushing your limits. Neither can your team.

Management and leadership are two different concepts. A simple litmus test for management versus leadership practice is whether a robot could do the job with the appropriate programming. If the answer is yes, I have bad news for you.

Using guilt is not productive. Appealing to the greatness of others is what works for Warren, and it will work for you.

Do all you have agreed to do, andDo not encroach on other persons or their property.

Surrounding yourself with ‘yes’ people is like talking to yourself.