Browsing Quotes With Tag: leadership (52)
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“The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action.”
Speaker: Herbert SpencerSource: @ptarkkonenPosted: 19 Nov 2011 at 9:43 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Its not what the Dream is, but what the Dream does”
Speaker: John JohnsonSource: @ptarkkonenPosted: 19 Nov 2011 at 9:30 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I love people who struggle, fail, and can’t do everything well. I’m drawn to them and I’m open to learn from them.
Speaker: Dan RockwellSource: twitter postPosted: 18 Nov 2011 at 5:05 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.”
Speaker: Henry DrummondSource: @leadershipfreakPosted: 13 Nov 2011 at 4:53 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The trick is to promote actual freedom – not just by giving people lots of choices (though that can help) but also by putting people in a good position to choose what would be best.
Source: NudgePosted: 06 Aug 2011 at 11:34 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The most efficient route that nature has found from point A to point B is rarely a straight line. It is always the path of least resistance. The most efficient way to to turn someone’s talent into performance is to help him find his own path of least resistance toward the desired outcomes.
Speaker: Marcus Buckingham & Curt CoffmanSource: First, Break All the RulesPosted: 08 May 2010 at 8:30 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 29 Jul 2009 at 12:06 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The first test of a truly great man is his humility. I do not mean, by humility, doubt of his own power. But really great men have a curious feeling that greatness is not in them, but through them, and they see something divine in every other man, and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful.
Speaker: John RuskinsPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 7:06 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
Speaker: Eleanor RooseveltPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 7:00 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The faults of women, children, and servants… and of the weak, the poor, and the ignorant, are the faults of the husbands, fathers, and masters, and of the strong, the rich, and the learned.
Speaker: Victor HugoSource: Les MiserablesPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 8:06 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
Speaker: Woodrow WilsonSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:35 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It’s amazing how someone’s IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them.
...People are smarter than you think. Give them a chance to prove themselves.Speaker: Timothy FerrissSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:28 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Parkinson’s Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion. It is the magic of the imminent deadline.
Speaker: Timothy FerrissSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of laziness – lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.
Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective – doing less – is the path of the productive.Speaker: Timothy FerrissSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:14 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What gets measured gets managed.
Speaker: Peter DruckerSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:10 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
That which gets recognized and reinforced gets done. That which doesn’t get recognized and reinforced doesn’t get done.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:54 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself. The height of a man’s success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depths of his failure by his self-abandonment. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.
Speaker: Leonardo da VinciPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:54 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Remember – no matter what field you are in, a person can never be greater as a leader than he is as an individual.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:53 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
Speaker: John D. RockefellerPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:52 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Speaker: J.S. KnoxPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:20 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!