Bad leaders don't know what's happening.
Good leaders get information to those in authority.
Great leaders give those with the information the authority they need to act.

L. David Marquet

No vision is worth the paper it's printed on unless it is communicated constantly and reinforced with rewards.

Jack Welch

For values or guiding principles to be truly effective, they have to be verbs.

Simon Sinek

When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.

Jack Welch

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

Warren G. Bennis

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

Tom Peters

Leadership is about working on the work with the worker. That is what good leaders do.

John Seddon

You cannot lead what you don’t understand and you can’t understand what you haven’t done.

Myron Tribus

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Warren G. Bennis

Leaders make sure people not only see the vision, they live and breathe it.

Jack Welch

Leadership is about creating change you believe in.

Seth Godin

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

Peter F. Drucker

The role of a leader is not to come up with all the great ideas. The role of a leader is to create an environment in which great ideas can happen.

Simon Sinek

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentless drive it to completion.

Jack Welch

Leadership requires two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate it.

Simon Sinek

There are leaders and there are those who lead. Leades hold a position of power or influence. Those who lead inspire us.

Simon Sinek

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

Bill Gates

Leadership isn't for the select few at the top.
In highly effective organizations, there are leaders at every level.

L. David Marquet

When people hear something that sounds "different,"
many people "react, respond, reply."
But not leaders,
Leaders are curious. They ask...
"What do they see that you don't see?"
"What do they know that you don't know?"

L. David Marquet

A leader is like a farmer,
creating the environment for others to grow...
and never blaming the crops for not growing.

L. David Marquet

Bosses are experts, knowing and telling, with heaviness.
Leaders are students, curious and listening, with lightness.

L. David Marquet

All leaders know that results require both strategy and execution. Unfortunately, we overvalue strategy and underestimate the challenges of execution.

Sean Covey

Leaders see their job as building the stage, not performing on it.

L. David Marquet

We need leaders not in love with money but in love with justice. Not in love with publicity but in love with humanity. Leaders who can subject their particular egos to the pressing urgencies of the great cause of freedom…..a time like this demands great leaders.

Martin Luther King

Leaders who don't listen will eventually be surrounded by people who don't speak.

Andy Stanley

Leadership is a choice that lies in the space between stimulus and response.

Stephen R. Covey

When you rid your organisation of conventional controls, develop meaningful controls derived from your purpose and put these to work where the work is done, people light up. They don’t need servant leaders or coaches, they need leaders who think differently.

John Seddon

Ik definieer een leider als iemand die de verantwoordelijkheid neemt op het potentieel in mensen en processen te zoeken en die de moed heeft om dat potentieel te ontwikkelen.

Brené Brown

In an increasingly complex world, appointed leaders simply don't know enough to decide what is new and better.

Edgar Schein

The ultimate test for a leader is not
whether he or she makes smart decisions and
takes decisive action, but whether he or she
teaches others to be leaders...

Noel Tichy

A leader is the one who speaks last and acts first.

Simon Sinek

When you go out into the workplace, you should be looking for things that you can do for your people there. You’ve got no business in the workplace if you’re just there to be there. You’ve got to be looking for changes you can make for the benefit of the people who are working there.

Taiichi Ohno

There are three kinds of leaders. Those that tell you what to do. Those that allow you to do what you want. And Lean leaders that come down to the work and help you figure it out.

John Shook

When you become a leader success is all about growing others.

Jack Welch

You manage things; you lead people.

Admiral Grace Murray Hopper

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Jim Rohn

Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.

Dianne Feinstein

A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.

Leroy Eimes

In the industrial age, leadership was a position. In the knowledge age, leadership is a choice.

Stephen R. Covey

When you rid your organisation of conventional controls, develop meaningful controls derived from your purpose and put these to work where the work is done, people light up. They don’t need servant leaders or coaches, they need leaders who think differently.

John Seddon

The culture of any organization is shaped by the worst behavior the leader is willing to tolerate.

Johanna Rothman

Consciously or unconsciously leaders put in place structures and practices that make sense to them.These structures and practices correspond to their way of dealing with the world and means that organization cannot evolve beyond its leadership's stage of learning and development.

Hermanni Hyytiälä

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

Russel Honore

If serving is below you,
Leadership is beyond you.

- Anonymous

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

Mwai Kibaki

As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.

Warren Bennis

When you rid your organisation of conventional controls, develop meaningful controls derived from your purpose and put these to work where the work is done, people light up. They don’t need servant leaders or coaches, they need leaders who think differently.

John Seddon

A leader is like a farmer who creates an environment for others to grow.

L. David Marquet

When you rid your organisation of conventional controls, develop meaningful controls derived from your purpose and put these to work where the work is done, people light up. They don’t need servant leaders or coaches, they need leaders who think differently.

John Seddon

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Colin Powell