Leadership

“Today’s leaders understand that they have to give up control to get results - they act as coaches not as ‘the boss’”
Robert Waterman - Frontiers of excellence

“The new recipe for leadership centres on five key areas: learning, energy, simplicity, focus and inner sense”
Phil Hodgeson - Ashridge Management College

“Leadership can be felt throughout an organisation. It gives pace and energy to the work and empowers the workforce. Empowerment is the collective effect of leadership”  Warren Bennis, USA

“Leaders who are intent upon accomplishing anything worthwhile have to enrol others in their cause. I find too many managers who have staff who are employed on paper but are not emotionally enrolled in the mission”  Laurie Beth Jones, USA

“if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch”  Bible - Matthew 15:14

“Leadership is to management as mind is to brain”  Robert Heller

“A leader is a person who has the ability to get other people to do what they don’t want to do, and like it”  Harry Truman, USA

“To survive in the twenty-first century we’re going to need a new generation of leaders, not managers”  Warren Bennis, USA

“Broadly speaking there are two approaches to leadership. You can theorise about it or you can get on and do it. Theorising about it is great fun, hugely indulgent and largely useless. Doing it - or doing it better - is demanding, frequently frustrating and of immense value”  Francis Macleod of the Leadership Trust UK

“There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in it’s success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things”  Niccolo Machiavelli, Florence 1520

"One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over mole hills"  Earl Wilson

“When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is a choice in itself”  William James

Before we can change things we must call them by their real names”  Confucius

“If you would persuade you must appeal to interest rather than intellect”  Benjamin Franklin

“You can get a lot more done with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone”  Al Capone

“People rise to the challenge when it’s their challenge”  Anon

“To improve is to change, to be perfect is to change often”  Winston Churchill

“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare”  Japanese Proverb

“The most important skill of managers and leaders in the years to come will be conversation”  Alan Weber

“It’s no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching”  Saint Francis of Assissi