QUOTES
Leadership
Effective
leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined
by results not attributes.
Management
is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Efficiency
is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
Accept
the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.
Checking
the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their
strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.
No
institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it.
It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership
composed of average human beings.
Leadership
is not magnetic personality—that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not
"making friends and influencing people"—that is flattery. Leadership is lifting
a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a
higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
The
leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not
because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They
think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team
function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the
credit…. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.
Leaders
grow; they are not made.
There
is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Unless
commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
Education
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast
of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
Inner
Peace
Follow
effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even
more effective action.
Dialogue
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
We
Can Create A Better World
The best way to predict the future is to create
it.
Plans
are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Miscellaneous
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
