|
“If you are tired or fatigued,
there is a reasonable chance that your troops are also. Maybe
you both need a break. In years past, the mentality in pro
football was that a team will outwork and out-tough its opponents.
This concept has proven to be naïve. In the NFL, everyone
works hard and is tough. To think otherwise is to set yourself
up for defeat. What has evolved in the league is the realization
that teams should focus on the concept of working more intelligently
in order to get their players to the game healthy and fresh.
This process must be monitored and gauged by leadership, which
itself must also be healthy and fresh for battle.” —Brian
Billick, Head Coach, The Baltimore Ravens
“Companies that create the
future are rebels. They’re subversives. They break the rules.
They’re filled with people who take the other side of an issue
just to spark a debate. In fact, they’re probably filled with
people who didn’t mind being sent to the principal’s office
once in a while.” —Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad, “Seeing the
Future First,” Harvard Business Review
“I have shifted from a directive
to a participatory management style. The more involved I get
with my team, the more their profound commitment and productivity
follows. Productive salespeople are happy salespeople.” —Gary
Graham, Directory of New Business Development, Data Plus Communications
Inc.
“Making initiatives successful
is all about focus and passionate commitment. The drumbeat
must be relentless. Every leadership action must demonstrate
total commitment to the initiative.” —Jack Welch, Former CEO,
General Electric
“Most companies don’t die
because they are wrong; most die because they don’t commit
themselves . . . You have to have a strong leader setting
a direction. And it doesn’t even have to be the best direction—just
a strong, clear one.” —Andy Grove, CEO, Intel
“One of the greatest impediments
to successful business is the ego of the owner and managers.
The bigger the ego, the smaller the concern is likely to be
for customers and staff: a surefire formula for disaster.”
—Bill Cumming, Business Coach
“It’s never too late to be
who you might have been.” —George Eliot (1819-1880), Writer
“Be kind, for everyone you
meet is fighting a hard battle.”—Plato (c. 427-347 BC), Philosopher
and Educator
“Keep away from people who
try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become
great.”—Mark Twain
“Character is doing what’s
right when nobody’s looking.” —J.C. Watts, Jr., Politician
“A moment’s insight is sometimes
worth a life’s experience —Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894),
Physician and Writer
“Three things in human life
are important: The first is to be kind. The second is to be
kind. And the third is to be kind.” —Henry James (1843-1916),
Writer
“The game of life is the game
of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us
sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.” —Florence Shinn
(1871-1940), Writer
“Help others get ahead. You
will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders.”
—Bob Moawad, Business Leader
“Nothing is easy to the unwilling.” —Nikki Giovanni,
Poet
“The thing that is really
hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and
beginning the work of becoming yourself.” —Anna Quindlen,
Writer
“Our remedies oft in ourselves
do lie.” —William Shakespeare, “All’s Well that Ends Well”
“I have never seen a monument
erected to a pessimist." —Paul Harvey, Radio Commentator
“Change your thoughts and
you change the world.” —Harold R. Mcalindon, Writer
“Some think it’s holding on
that makes one strong; sometimes it’s letting go.” —Sylvia
Robinson
“The truth is that there is
nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only
real nobility is in being superior to your former self.” —Whitney
Young (1921-1971), Civil Rights Leader
“No matter what you’ve done
for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having
given love and attention to your own family, what have you
really accomplished?” —Lee Iacocca, Automobile Executive
“Keeping score of old scores
and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less
than you are.” —Malcom Forbes (1919-1990)
“You cannot live a perfect
day without doing something for someone who will never be
able to repay you.” —John Wooden, College Basketball Coach
“If you want others to be
happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice
compassion.” —The Dalai Lama, Religious Leader
“There are two ways of exerting
one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling
up.” —Booker T. Washington, Educator
'Your ability to get people
to follow you up the hill into gunfire, or into the next Net
meltdown, is based on your ability to convince them that you
have their best interests at heart." —Dave McCormick,
Senior V.P., Free Markets, Inc.
“Leaders focus on the soft
stuff. People. Values. Character. Commitment. A cause. All
of the stuff that was supposed to be too goo-goo to count
in business. Yet, it’s the stuff that real leaders take care
of first. And forever. That’s why leadership is an art, not
a science.”—Tom Peters, Management Consultant
“46% of those who quit their
jobs last year did so because they felt unappreciated.” —U.S.
Department of Labor
"Commanders must remember
that the issuance of an order, or the devising of a plan,
is only about five percent of the responsibility of a command.
The other 95% is to insure, by personal observation, or through
the interposing of staff officers, that the order is carried
out." —General George S. Patton
“If GE had to rely on Jack
Welch for all its ideas, this place would sink in about an
hour. I just believed that we were going to have to be far
more competitive. The only way to be more competitive was
to engage every mind in the organization. You couldn’t have
anybody on the sidelines.” —Jack Welch, Former CEO, General
Electric
“Managers should focus on
people’s strengths instead of their weaknesses. Rather than
dwell on the areas where a worker is weak, find out what he
does well, determine the context in which he is able to exercise
his positive capabilities—and let him do it. Make his shortcomings
irrelevant. The function of an organization is to make human
strength productive—and this is accomplished by building on
people’s assets, not by bemoaning their limitations.” —Peter
Drucker, Management Consultant
“If you wish to succeed in
managing and controlling others—learn to manage and control
yourself.” —William H. Boetcker, Lecturer and Industrial Psychologist
“Leadership: The art of getting
someone else to do something you want done because he wants
to do it.” —Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United
States
“From the minute our customers
log on to their computers or call to make a reservation to
the minute they pick up their bags, we pamper them. And never
get complacent. The moment you think you’ve made it, you’re
dead.” —David Neeleman, Founder and CEO, Jet Blue Airways
“Mental toughness is humility,
simplicity, spartanism and one other . . . love. I don’t necessarily
have to like my associates but as a man, I must love them.
Love is loyalty; love is teamwork. Love respects the dignity
of the individual.” —Vince Lombardi, Former NFL Coach
“You do not lead by hitting
people over the head—that’s assault, not leadership.” —Dwight
D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States
“The great working force of
any business is a collection of individual human beings, all
with individual rights and individual problems worthy of consideration
by management and government.” —Charles P. McCormick, President,
McCormick and Company, “The Power of People”
“We are what we desire to
be. We can be what we wish to be. If we make a plan of our
own lives and desire that plan to be fulfilled, we will become
that. And all the laws of the universe will help us to become
that.” —Walter Russell
“Balance your business and
your personal life. It’s crucial to your well-being.” —Phillip
Laskawy, Former Chairman of Ernst & Young
“I led a team of incoming
plebes during basic training. I thought I had to lead the
way I saw others doing it—with stress and shouting, like a
traditional drill sergeant. Well my unit performed very badly.
And they hated me. That experience shook me up. I realized
that leadership isn’t rule-based. It isn’t about stress. It’s
about inspiration, about setting and communicating a vision.
It’s about gaining trust. Once you have someone’s trust, once
you get them on the same sheet of music, they don’t want to
disappoint you. Then leading becomes very easy.” —Christina
Juhasz, 1990 Westpoint Graduate and presently Director in
Online Ventures, Merrill Lynch
“A true teacher is not the
one with the most knowledge, but one who causes the most others
to have knowledge. A true Leader is not the one with the most
followers, but one who creates the most Leaders. A true King
is not the one with the most subjects, but one who leads the
most to royalty.” —Neal Donald Walsch, Author
“Great spirits who think differently
have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
—Albert Einstein
“Criticism has the power to
do good when there is something that must be destroyed, dissolved
or reduced, but [it is] capable only of harm when there is
something to be built.” —Carl Jung
“A reflective reading of history
will show that no man ever rose to military greatness who
could not convince his troops that he put them first, above
all else.” —General Maxwell D. Taylor, U.S. Army
“Goal setting is the strongest force for human motivation.
Set a goal and make it come true.” —Jack Canfield and Mark
Victor Hansen, “Chicken Soup for the Soul”
“Knowledge alone is not enough
to get desired results. You must have the more elusive ability
to teach and to motivate. This defines a leader; if you can’t
teach and you can’t motivate, you can’t lead.” —John Wooden,
Hall of Fame Basketball Coach
“Everyone has his own specific
vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete
assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be
replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone’s task
is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.”
—Vicktor Frankl, Author, Psychiatrist, Concentration Camp
Survivor
“When you come to the table
with the attitude of helping and serving others, you immediately
compound the influence, effectiveness and results of everyone
involved.” —John C. Maxwell, Leadership Author
"Every single day we depend
upon the goodwill and commitment of our employees. We need
leadership—day in and day out— from people who can role model
the kind of behavior that inspires people to come to work.
Teamwork & integrity are important. When the company was
not doing all we should have been doing, I think that was
caused by the failure to tell people what was expected.
—Kim Jefferey, Perrier CEO
"The quality of the relationship
between the boss and subordinate is a major predictor of intentions
to remain. Coaching— which can help managers talk with subordinates
about their development needs— absolutely affects that relationship
positively. And there's a big potential payoff." —David
A. Thomas, Fitzhugh, Professor of Business Administration,
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
“The really valuable thing
is intuition.” —Albert Einstein
“Be the change you want to
see in the world.” —Mahatma Gandhi
|
