Leadership Quotes

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It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent,but the one most responsive to change.? - Charles Darwin Productivity is the Value Created in a Days work and the value created in a day work sets the wages you can earn. - Michael Porter What creates trust, in the end, is the leaders manifest respect for the followers. - Jim O Toole - Leading Change We may not be interested in chaos but chaos is interested in us. - Source: Robert Cooper, The Breaking of Nations: Order and Chaos in the Twenty-first Century Aristotle - You are what you repeatedly do Forget China, India and the Internet: Economic Growth Is Driven by Women. - Headline, Economist, April 15, 2006 Everyone lives by selling something. - Robert Louis Stevenson He who has the quickest O.O.D.A. Loops* wins! *Observe. Orient. Decide. Act. - Col. John Boyd The best thing a leader can do for a Great Group is to allow its members to discover their greatness. He above all encouraged (and prepared) his subordinates to seize the initiative whenever necessary, particularly in the fog of war and the men who served under him knew what he expected. - Jay Tolson, on The Nelson Touch, The Battle That Changed The World [other] admirals more frightened of losing than anxious to win Sir Richard Rules: Follow your passions. Keep it simple. Get the best people to help you. Re-create yourself. Play. - Source: Fortune on Branson/10.03 You must be the change you wish to see in the world. - Gandhi The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.? - William James It was much later that I realized Dads secret. He gained respect by giving it. He talked and listened to the fourth-grade kids in Spring Valley who shined shoes the same way he talked and listened to - Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Respect A man without a smiling face must not open a shop. - Chinese Proverb People want to be part of something larger than themselves. They want to be part of something they are really proud of, that they will fight for, sacrifice for, trust. - Howard Schultz, Starbucks (IBD/09.05) The top software developers are more productive than average software developers not by a factor of 10X or 100X, or even 1,000X, but 10,000X.? - Nathan Myhrvold, former Chief Scientist, Microsoft Did We Say Talent Matters Hire for attitude. Train for skills. Every Starbucks store is carefully designed to enhance the quality of everything the customers see, touch, hear, smell or taste, writes CEO Howard Schultz. - Virginia Postrel Furniture vs. Dreams We do not sell furniture at Domain. We sell dreams. This is accomplished by addressing the half-formed needs in our customers heads. By uncovering these needs, we, in ess - Judy George, Domain Home Fashions DREAM: A dream is a complete moment in the life of a client. Important experiences that tempt the client to commit substantial resources. The essence of the desires of the consumer. The opportunity t - Gian Luigi Longinotti-Buitoni Concentration is the Key to Economic Success Experience: Rebel Lifestyle! What we sell is the ability for a 43-year-old accountant to dress in black leather, ride through small towns and have people be afraid of him. - Harley exec, quoted in Results-Based Leadership Every morning, write a list of the things that need to be done that day. Do them?. - Quote attributed to American Banker JP Morgan Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done - Larry Bossidy Resources Are Limited, Creativity is Unlimited - Sign Post at the Entrance of POSCO - No 1 Steel Co in the world "Style is How You think" - Joe Cade - Serial Entrepreneur - Melbourne, Australia. "We Play to Win, We Play For Each Other, We do what it takes" - Amal Cabraal - Chairman, Unilever, Sri Lanka "Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship." - Omar Bradley If you Fail to Plan, You plan to fail - Planning RELENTLESS If you are RELENTLESS in everything you do YOU WILL BE SUCCESSFUL no matter what the economy has to offer Blink through TASKS, THINK through Strategy - Billboard in Sri Lanka Set YOUR Course by the Stars in the Sky and NOT the lights of passing ships - Unknown The task of a leader is to get people from where they are to where they have never been. - Henry Kissinger "Tears are the pillars on which dreams are built upon"  DDS