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“Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around the world. Leaders shouldn't try to make every decision.”

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Book:Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy

Source: Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy

“If I were a factory employee, a workman on the railroads or a wage-earner of any sort, I would undoubtedly join the union of my trade. If I disapproved of its policy, I would join in order to fight that policy; if the union leaders were dishonest, I would join in order to put them out. I believe in the union and I believe that all men who are benefited by the union are morally bound to help to the extent of their power in the common interests advanced by the union.”

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Book:Bully!

Source: Bully!

“The whole time I was a union leader, we had to put up with John Howard and Tony Abbott attacking workers' conditions. I'm proud of being a moderate trade union official, working co-operatively between employees and employers. I'm interested in better wages for workers, better safety, job security, and, profitable companies, because I understand that if you get co-operation in the workplace, everyone wins.”

“What I've done as a union leader and what literally thousands of other union representatives do, is make sure that we have co-operation in the workplace. What I get is that where employees are well treated, employers do well.”

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Author:Bill Shorten

“It is like when a player has a slump, we do not trade them, we coach them. It is the same with our employees. The best leaders come to the aid of their people, whose performance is down. Not come down harder on them.”

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Author:Simon Sinek

“Introverts are more effective leaders of proactive employees. When you have a creative, energetic work force, an introvert is going to draw out that energy better.”

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Author:Laurie Helgoe

“Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future. Engagement may have been optional in the past, but its pretty much the whole game today.”

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Book:What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation

Source: What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation

“Put First Things First! These four words cover an entire philosophy which can be applied with profit by every business leader, by every executive and by every employee.”

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Author:Thomas Watson, Jr.

“When employees underperform, a leader tells them so.”

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Author:Jack Welch

“How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.”

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Author:John C. Maxwell

“Real leaders like Lee Iacocca see vast possibilities and sell their dreams to their companies, their employees, their funding sources, their government and their buying public.”

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Author:Mark Victor Hansen

“The worst leaders are the once that think they have to know as much or more than the people who work with them. The best leaders are the once who know that their employees know hell of a lot more than what they know and willing to admit it whilst expressing the value of their employees.”

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Author:Simon Sinek