Leadership & Influence Quotes

I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.

Your ability to shape your future depends on how well you communicate where you want to be when you get there. When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.

Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.

Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics.

My sports were team sports: ice hockey and baseball. The whole team dynamic is similar in business. Leadership is earned - the captain earns that role; it's not because he's the coach's son. These are all things we know, but in today's world, it's not a bad idea to remind ourselves.

I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

Leadership is more about clarity than it is about control.

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Leadership is a matter of how to be - not how to do it.

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.

We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.

Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.

There is a new model of leadership in the world that rides on the premise that every single person in the organisation can be a leader. Titles are important for structure and order, but real power does not come from titles.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

Leadership is about making the right decision and the best decision before, sometimes, it becomes entirely popular.

Despite the increasingly presidential style of political leadership in our country, teamwork is essential.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

It takes courage for a leader to identify and confront self-imposed barriers, to put in place the personal strategies required to unleash the energy, innovation, and commitment to self-development.

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.

Leadership is hard. It's a skill. It's a technique.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

Leadership is a mindset that shifts from being a victim to creating results. Any one of us can demonstrate leadership in our work and within our lives.

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it.

One of the lessons of leadership worth emphasizing is that you want to get to know other great leaders and take their advice. At some point in your development, it's only people who've been in the seat of having to be leaders who can help you in a deep way.

Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone's life, no matter what the project.

Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to trust in the leadership of someone who is half-hearted about their purpose, or only sporadic in focus or enthusiasm.

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.

I fell in love with the topic of leadership. For three decades, that has been a major focus of my hands-on work: listening to and working with leaders, their teams and their organizations.

Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.

Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.

Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.

The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?

Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.

Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.

A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

Leadership is influence.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.