Best leader & tasks Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We're building an independent political program that can run electoral politics and then turn on a dime to hold our leaders to task, in case they suddenly develop that old case of amnesia! We'll be there to remind them what they promised and who they promised to work for!”

Running Political Turns Leader Cases Building Program Tasks Independent Turn-on Dimes Amnesia

Author:Richard Trumka

“Organization is not only directly linked to unity, but a natural development of that unity. Accordingly, the leaders' pursuit of that unity is also an attempt to organize the people, requiring witness to the fact that the struggle for liberation is a common task." "Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.”

People Facts Natural Decision Common Leader Struggle Development Tasks Organization Unity Pursuit Witness Liberation Organize Linked Manipulate Liberated Imposing

Author:Paulo Freire

“The successful politician owes his power to the fact that he moves within the accepted framework of thought, that he thinks and talks conventionally. It would be almost a contradiction in terms for a politician to be a leader in the field of ideas. His task in a democracy is to find out what the opinions held by the largest number are, not to give currency to new opinions which may become the majority view in some distant future.”

“Part of the task of the leader is to make others participate in his leadership. The best leader knows how to make his followers actually feel power themselves, not merely acknowledge his power.”

Knows Feels Leadership Leader Know How Tasks Acknowledge Followers Best Leader

Book:Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett

Source: Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett

“The task of the leaders must be to provide or create for them a strong framework within which they can learn, work hard, be productive and be rewarded accordingly. And this is not easy to achieve.”

Hard Strong Easy Leader Achieve Hard Work Tasks Productive Framework

Author:Lee Kuan Yew

“The real leaders intend to do definitely that good task for which a pretender has provoked them by saying that it can't be done, but the good number of pretenders tend to do only that job for which a real leader has cautioned them by showing the things that should not be done.”

Should Real Done Jobs Numbers Leader Tasks Provoked Pretender

Author:Anuj

“Our leaders were assassinated, one of the things I was reading today was - 28 Panthers were killed by the police but 300 Black Panthers were killed by other Panthers just within - internecine warfare. It just began to seem like we were in an impossible task given what we were facing.”

Seems Today Reading Given Black Leader Impossible Tasks Police Warfare Panthers Black Panther

Author:Angela Davis

“God prepares leaders with a specific place and task in mind. Training methods are adapted to the mission, and natural and spiritual gifts are given with clear purpose.”

Mind Christian Spiritual Purpose Given Natural Leadership Leader Clear Training Tasks Method Missions Adapted Spiritual Gifts Mind Training

Book:Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books

Source: Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books

“When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure.”

People Important Leadership Leader Failure Tasks Excuse

Author:Robert Townsend

“To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.”

People Giving Leader Figures Advantage Tasks Streaks Manipulative

Book:It Doesn't Take a Hero: The Autobiography of General Norman Schwarzkopf

Source: It Doesn't Take a Hero: The Autobiography of General Norman Schwarzkopf

“To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves as actors in a staged (and therefore unreal) performance that death loses its frightfulness and finality and becomes an act of make-believe and a theatrical gesture. It is one of the main tasks of a real leader to mask the grim reality of dying and killing by evoking in his followers the illusion that they are participating in a grandiose spectacle, a solemn or lighthearted dramatic performance.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“Leaders strengthen credibility by demonstrating that they are not in it for themselves, instead they have the interests of the institution, department, or team and its constituents at heart. Being a servant may not be what many leaders had in mind when they chose to take responsibility for the vision and direction of their organization or team - but serving others is the most glorious and rewarding of all leadership tasks.”

“My task, as a member of this parliament and a 30-year member of the Australian Labor Party, as its former leader, as its former foreign minister and its former prime minister, is to now throw my every effort in securing Julia Gillard's re-election as Labor prime minister at the next election.”

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Author:Kevin Rudd

“The very first task of leadership is to set the vision for the organization. If you don't set the vision, you're not the leader.”

Ifs Firsts Leader Vision Tasks Organization

Author:Rick Warren

“Preaching the Word is the primary task of the Church, the primary task of the leaders of the Church, the people who are set in this position of authority; and we must not allow anything to deflect us from this, however good the cause, however great the need.”

People Needs Causes Church Leader Position Authority Tasks Primaries Preaching

Book:Preaching and Preachers

Source: Preaching and Preachers

“Perhaps the central task of the leader of leaders thus becomes the development of other leaders.”

Leader Development Tasks

Author:Warren G. Bennis

“The best form of leadership is to be conscious of the leadership potential with the followers and to let them unleash this potential in a spontaneous way. When a great leader accomplishes this task with effortless ease, the followers say, "We did it ourselves."”

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Author:Laozi

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