“After all, if you have the majority of customers, then what you do becomes the standard. Your competitors have little choice but to follow. If you are the leader, then having a nonstandard infrastructure is a bad idea. Ultimately, it leads to extinction.” IfsLittlesIdeasChoicesLeaderStandardsMajorityCustomersCompetitorsInfrastructureExtinctionBad Ideas Author:Douglas Gwyn
“But veteran lawmakers torn apart by PTSD don't have a choice about being Exhibit A in the case against Washington politics. When you see what can happen to a page or a junior congressman, it passes on in a very real way, not in a history-class sense, that reality of what political power really is, .. Who are we to impose this emotional albatross on public servants? As a nation, we pretend to elect our leaders. It seems unjust to make them a special class to suffer for our sins over wrongheaded laws, or pay a continuing emotional price for securing their future careers.” WayRealRealitySeemsHappensLawPoliticalSufferingChoicesNationsSinPayLeaderClassCareersCasesSpecialEmotionalPagesServantContinuingUnjustTornVeteranPtsdJuniorsExhibitsPolitical PowerCongressmanPublic ServantsLawmakersTorn ApartAlbatrossHistory ClassFuture Careers Author:Leon Kass
“When a leader makes the choice to put the safety and lives of the people inside the organization first, to sacrifice their comforts and sacrifice the tangible results, so that the people remain and feel safe and feel like they belong, remarkable things happen.” PeopleFeelsFirstsHappensMotivationalChoicesResultsLeaderSacrificeComfortSafeOrganizationSafetyThings HappenRemarkableTangible Author:Simon Sinek
“Now more than ever I am aware that a person's significant birthdays can either mark the passage of time, or they can mark changes they've made in their lives to reach their potential and become the person they were created to be. With each passing year, I want to make good choices that make me a better person, help me become a better leader, and make a positive impact on others.” WantYearsPersonsMadeHelpingMotivationalChoicesLeaderMarkImpactSignificantPassingPassingsHelp MePassagesBetter PersonPassage Of TimePositive ImpactGood Choices Author:John C. Maxwell
“It is one thing being able to contest an election and to give the people hope that I can be the next prime minister. It is a totally different situation where the people of Pakistan are told that the results are already taken and the leader of your choice is banned.” PeopleGivingI CanDifferentAbleChoicesNextResultsSituationLeaderTakenOne ThingElectionMinistersPrimeContestsPrime MinisterPakistanBannedAlready Taken Author:Benazir Bhutto
“Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax credits giving parents and their children more school choices than ever before.” GivingChildrenSchoolChoicesParentLeaderTaxesCreditArizonaCharterTuitionCharter SchoolsSchool Choice Author:Jane D. Hull
“The greatness of a popular character is less according to the ratio of his genius than the sympathy he shows with the prejudices and even the absurdities of his time. Fanatics do not select the cleverest but the most fanatical leaders as was evidenced in the choice of Robespierre by the French Jacobins, and in that of Cromwell by the English Puritans.” CharacterShowsChoicesLeaderGreatnessGeniusPrejudicePopularityAbsurditySelectFanaticsRatiosPuritanCromwell Book:Memoirs of Celebrated Characters Source: Memoirs of Celebrated Characters
“Successful leaders develop effective strategies for maintaining their boundaries. ... Most time bandits don't know any better. And being a time bandit is a matter of context. One person's time bandit is another person's pleasant diversion. ... Instead of gritting our teeth to be polite and resenting the time bandit for holding us up, the best choice is to be honest. We cannot expect another person to honor our needs unless we affirm them ourselves.” KnowsNeedsPersonsMatterTimeChoicesLeadershipLeaderSuccessfulHonestHonorStrategyBoundariesTeethBeing HonestPleasantPoliteMaintainingDiversionOf ContextBanditsSuccessful Leaders Author:Diane Dreher
“Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.” PeopleLongEnoughGovernmentChoicesInterestResultsLeaderClassDemocracyTestsTyrannyVotingRulersIntervalsCastesClique Author:George Bernard Shaw
“Leadership is a choice. It's not a rank, it's a choice. I know many people who are at the top of their organization who have authority. We have to do what they say because they have authority over us. But they're not leaders. We wouldn't follow them. They may be at the top of the company but they're not leaders.” PeopleKnowsMayChoicesCompanyLeaderAuthorityOrganization Author:Simon Sinek
“We are a people with no army, no navy, no air force, no arms. It's people, thousands of people, who are feeling, sensing the sense of urgency, fearing for the president of their life - the life of their president, trying to protect their democratic choice, because Arafat is the elected leader of the Palestinian people.” PeopleTryingFeelingsChoicesForcePresidentLeaderAirArmsProtectArmyDemocraticPalestinianNavyUrgencyAir ForceSensingSense Of UrgencyArafatElected Leaders Author:Saeb Erekat
“The point of a library's existence is not persuasion or evangelism, but knowledge. It is irrelevant to the good library whether, as an institution, it shares or promotes your core values or mine, or the Attorney General's or Saddam Hussein's. The library is always an instrument of choice, and the choice is always yours, not your elected or designated leaders.” ValuesChoicesExistenceLeaderShareMinesInstitutionsInstrumentsLibraryCorePersuasionIrrelevantSaddamHusseinEvangelismAttorneyCore Values Author:Robert Hughes
“It's immoral to parent irresponsibly... And it doesn't help matters any when prime time tv, like "Murphy Brown", a character who is supposed to represent a successful career woman of today, mocks the importance of the father by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another "lifestyle choice." Marriage is probably the best anti-poverty program there is... Even though our cultural leaders in Hollywood, network TV, the national newspapers routinely jeer at [such values] I think most of us in this room know that some things are good, and other things are wrong.” ThinkingKnowsChildrenMatterCharacterHelpingTodayValuesChoicesFatherParentRoomsLeaderCareersPovertySuccessfulTvsCallingProgramHollywoodImportanceLifestyleNewspapersBrownPrimeImmoralMurphyCareer WomenSuccessful CareerPrime TimeLifestyle ChoicesMurphy Brown Author:Dan Quayle
“A leader with integrity has one self, at home and at work, with family and with colleagues. He or she has a unifying set of values that guide choices of action regardless of the situation.” SelfHomeActionValuesChoicesSituationLeaderIntegrityGuidesColleaguesUnifying Book:The leadership challenge: how to get extraordinary things done in organizations Source: The leadership challenge: how to get extraordinary things done in organizations
“And in some ways, to me, that's one of the inspiring and powerful things about the Great Migration itself. There was no leader, there was no one person who set the date who said, 'On this date, people will leave the South.' They left on their own accord for as many reasons as there are people who left. They made a choice that they were not going to live under the system into which they were born anymore and in some ways, it was the first step that the nation's servant class ever took without asking.” PeopleWayFirstsPersonsMadeSaidReasonChoicesLeftNationsBornPowerfulLeaderStepsClassAskingSouthServantFirst StepsAccordMigration Author:Isabel Wilkerson
“Leaders select noble objectives and pursue them with such intensity that others join them. ... The greatest of all leaders from this perspective was Jesus Christ. ....May your choices be so powerful and magnetic that you'll draw people toward life (Duet. 30:19, ...therefore choose life.-) rather than death, blessing rather than cursing.” PeopleMayChoicesJesusChristPowerfulLeaderPerspectiveBlessingDrawsJesus ChristNobleObjectivesPursueIntensitySelectMagneticCursingChoose LifeDuets Author:John Ashcroft