“It's your ability to learn quickly and contribute quickly that matters. One of the things I tell people these days is that there is no perfect fit when you're looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around. The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.” PeopleWayImportantMatterBigsNextOpportunityAbilityPerfectQualityLeaderFitThese DaysThings To DoBig ThingsLeaning InPerfect Fit Author:Padmasree Warrior
“The first job of the historian and of the journalist is to find facts. Not the only job, perhaps not the most important, but the first. Facts are the cobblestones from which we build roads of analysis, mosaic tiles that we fit together to compose pictures of past and present. There will be disagreement about where the road leads and what reality or truth is revealed by the mosaic picture. The facts themselves must be checked against all the available evidence. But some are round and hard--and the most powerful leaders in the world can trip over them. So can writers, dissidents and saints.” WorldFirstsImportantHardFactsRealityTogetherJobsPastPowerfulLeaderFitTruth IsEvidenceRoundsSaintAvailableJournalistAnalysisMost PowerfulHistorianDisagreementPast And PresentDissidentsMosaicsPowerful LeadersTilesCobblestone Author:Timothy Garton Ash
“Our leaders increasingly see fit to lecture the ethnic minorities on the need to integrate, including of course the need to speak English. What about the need, though, for Britain to integrate with the rest of the world?” WorldNeedsCoursesSpeakLeaderFitIncludingBritainMinoritiesLecturesIntegratingSpeak English Author:Martin Jacques
“Any so-called leader who does not take this issue (climate change) seriously or treats it like a joke is not fit to lead” DoeLeaderIssuesFitJokesTreatsClimateClimate Change Author:Barack Obama
“I've been a solo act, a columnist and worked from home, only relying on myself. Now I'm part of a team, a leader, and I have to fit in at a big corporation and deal with all the moving parts, all the different personalities. That has been a challenge, to be quite honest, that I've embraced.” Has BeensDifferentHomeBigsMovingChallengesDealsLeaderTeamHonestPersonalityFitCorporationsSoloColumnistsBig CorporationsMoving Parts Author:Jason Whitlock
“As a leader, you have no right to have any employee wonder how they fit in and where they are going.” LeaderWonderFitEmployee Author:Jack Welch
“You can deceive yourself into thinking that America is a technological leader, but if you don't see what anyone else is doing you have no accurate assessment - you can't make an accurate assessment of where you fit and why. I consider our moving frontier in space as the anecdote to that downward trend.” IfsThinkingAmericaMovingSpaceLeaderFitTrendsAccurateDeceivingTechnologicalFrontiersDoing YouAssessmentAnecdotes Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“First, the skill of storytelling helps to galvanize your team. Second, the discipline of storytelling requires leaders to be clear about their intentions and to prioritize what fits into the story versus secondary goals and issues. Third, there is possibly an artifact here - great storytellers can make their exploits and achievements sound very exciting and memorable. Successful leaders who are not good storytellers won't get the acknowledgement and appreciation they deserve.” HelpingGoalLeaderSuccessfulTeamDisciplineFitAchievementDeserveExcitingIntentionAppreciationStorytellingMemorableStorytellerAcknowledgementPrioritize Author:Gary A. Klein
“Often, in a given project team or network, one sees leadership roles shifting among various members at various times. Attempts to fit these into traditional views of "leader" and "follower" don't quite work. It's more like Twitter: the "leader" has "followers" - but the "followers" are empowered to alter the relationship unilaterally, and the "leader" must continually earn the consent of the "followers."” LeaderTeamFitVariousEmpowered Author:James M Strock
“A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.” RealityNationsLeadershipLeaderFitBattle Author:Golda Meir