“We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?” KnowsWantGovernmentLeaderOpinionWeekStreetsStyleWallIndustryDown AndBillsClintonDisappearFirmUnemploymentInterventionAbrahamUnprecedentedGovernment InterventionLeadership StyleOpinion Leaders Author:Thomas Frank
“The British security industry has the capacity to be a world leader and it should be our shared objective to achieve this.” WorldShouldLeaderAchieveSecurityIndustryCapacityBritishObjectivesWorld Leader Author:Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones
“Great military leaders have to sacrifice soldiers; great captains of industry have to sacrifice people. You can't only look after the poor, and the weak, and the disabled. You've got to do what's best for the community, and that often means sacrificing innocent people.” PeopleLooksMeanCommunityPoorLeaderSacrificeMilitaryIndustryWeakSoldierInnocentCaptainsDisabledGreat MilitaryMilitary LeaderCaptains Of Industry Author:David Nasaw
“U.S. labor leaders will realize that automation can multiply man's wealth far more rapidly than it is multiplying at present and that automation will leave all men free to search and research... Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.” MenMeanPoliticsRealizingHoursWealthLeaderEconomyIndustryResearchLaborDirectBasesCompetitionLiberalismBuyingWagesAutomationMultiplyingBuying Power Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“Daren Hardy's The Compound Effect is a culmination of success principles that is relevant to anyone who needs it! As a thought leader, he is making a significant contribution to our industry. A wonderful book!” NeedsBookLeaderPrinciplesWonderfulEffectsIndustrySignificantContributionRelevantCompoundsHardyCulmination Author:Stedman Graham
“People assume Wall Street is a certain culture and tech is a certain culture. But if you look at the (gender) numbers at the top of (those) industries, they don't vary very much. I think in finance, women hold 19 percent of the top jobs, and women are 21 percent of the leaders in nonprofits.” PeopleIfsThinkingLooksJobsCertainCultureNumbersLeaderStreetsWallIndustryPercentAssumingGenderFinanceVaryNonprofits Author:Sheryl Sandberg
“Leaders: Captains of industry.” LeadershipLeaderIndustryCaptainsCaptains Of Industry Author:Thomas Carlyle
“Cities can be rebuilt, industries can be rebuilt, what really matters are strategy forces, military forces and the cadres leaders, political, military and economic.” MatterPoliticalForceCitiesLeaderEconomicMilitaryIndustryStrategyMilitary ForceCadre Author:Richard Pipes
“American industry is spilling over with men who started life even with the leaders, with brains just as big, with hands quite as capable. And yet one man emerges from the mass, rises sheer about his fellows; and the rest remain.” MenHandsBigsBrainLeaderIndustryMassCapableFellowsOne ManSheerSpilling Book:Succeeding With What You Have Source: Succeeding With What You Have
“Someone recently pointed out how much Barack Obama's style and strategies resemble those of Latin American charismatic despots - the takeover of industries by demagogues who never ran a business, the rousing rhetoric of resentment addressed to the masses and the personal cult of the leader promoted by the media. But do we want to become the world's largest banana republic?” WorldWantLeaderMediaStyleIndustryMassStrategyBarackRanLatinRepublicResentmentRhetoricCultLatin AmericaBananasCharismaticDespotsLatin AmericanTakeovers Book:Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt) Source: Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)
“To allow your organization the permission to fail is a very powerful thing. If we want to really be thought leaders and industry leaders, it doesn't come without taking risks. We're not afraid to take those risks that will get us to a better place.” IfsWantPowerfulLeaderFailingRiskIndustryOrganizationNot AfraidPermissionBetter PlaceVery PowerfulTaking Risks Author:Rick Welts
“When a technology, regardless of how different and difficult it is, sustains the trajectory of performance improvement, my research asserts that the leaders in the prior generation of technology are likely to end up on top of their industry at the end of the transition.” DifferentEndsDifficultLeaderTechnologyGenerationsIndustryResearchPerformancesImprovementTransitionTrajectory Author:Clayton Christensen
“Quite often startups were first out of the gate with a sustaining technology. But somehow the leaders got the technology and stayed atop their industries. Sometimes they acquired the startup; sometimes they just developed the technology as a follower and used their muscle and mass to win. But they always won.” FirstsSometimesUsedWinningLeaderTechnologyIndustryMassMusclesGatesFollowersSustaining Author:Clayton Christensen
“If the white man can come here uneducated and as an immigrant, and within 10 or 15 years set up an industry that provides job opportunities and educational opportunities for black people, then if the black man, the black leadership, who has access to all of this money and has all of these degrees today, can't use his talent and his know-how to set up business opportunities, job opportunities, housing opportunities for the black people the same as the white leaders have done for white people, then these black leaders need to get off the boat.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenNeedsYearsDoneUseTodayJobsOpportunityBlackWhiteLeaderKnow HowTalentIndustryDegreesEducationalAccessBoatImmigrantsBlack PeopleWhite ManHousingUneducatedBusiness OpportunityJob Opportunities Author:Malcolm X