Leadership
The best executive is the one who
has sense enough to pick good [people]
to do what he (or she) wants done, and
self-restraint enough to keep from
meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt

Leadership
The Trap: Measuring everything, understanding nothing
“too often we measure everything and understand nothing. The three most important things you need to measure in a business are customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, and cash flow. If you’re growing customer satisfaction, your global market share is sure to grow, too. Employee satisfaction feeds you productivity, quality, pride and creativity. And cash flow is the pulse -- the key vital sign of a company”
Jack Welch - former CEO, GE

Leadership
The word influence is the best one-word definition of leadership. Leaders are people who influence others to think, feel, or act in certain ways.
HANS FINZEL Writer

Leadership
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he described another’s.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER (1763-1825)
Novelist and humorist

Leadership
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
MARGARET THATCHER
Former Prime Minister of England

Leadership
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
WAYNE LUKAS
Horse Trainer

"The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the
day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost
confidence that you can help them or concluded that you
do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.”

"Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans
don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management
don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of
the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will
you accomplish great deeds."

Colin Powel

The only person you can control is yourself. When you want/ need people to behave differently …… you need to change your behaviour.

Lillian D. Bjorseth
Interpersonal relationship consultant

What is important in this moment is what you are choosing to think and believe and say right now.

Louise Hay
Motivational writer

If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems….then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.

Robert Conklin
Writer

“Leadership is action, not position.”

DONALD H. MCGANNON
Broadcasting executive

THE LEADER-DRIVEN ORGANISATION
In the future the real core competence of companies will be the ability to continuously and creatively destroy and remake themselves to meet customer demands.
Everyone in the organization must take responsibility for taking responsive actions.
This means that a company needs leadership everywhere in the organization - from the corner office, in the customer rep’s cubicle, and on the shop floor. Leadership is the ability to see reality as it really is and to mobilize the appropriate response.
Noel M. Tichy
The Leadership Engine