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“No leader can possibly have all the answers . . . .The actual solutions about how best to meet the challenges of the moment have to be made by the people closest to the action. . . .The leader has to find the way to empower those frontline people, to challenge them, to provide them with the resources they need, and then to hold them accountable. As they struggle with . . . this challenge, the leader becomes their coach, teacher, and facilitator. Change how you define leadership, and you change how you run a company.”

People Way Needs Made Moments Running Action Challenges Leadership Answers Company Leader Struggle Teacher Solutions Resources Coaches Empowering Closest Encouraging Frontline

Author:Steve Miller

“Growing up, I kind of liked the way he (Thurman Munson) played. I didn't see much of him, but I remember him being a leader. I remember him really standing up for his teammates, and that really caught my eye.”

Way Kind Eye Remember Leader Growing Up Growing Standing Caught Teammate Being A Leader

Author:Jorge Posada

“Nixon is a strong leader with a good grasp of the world's problems. He knows that the only way to argue with the communists is from a position of strength.”

Knows World Way Problem Strong Leader Position Arguing Communist Strong Leaders

Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

“I feel more important to just encourage people to get involved, one way or another. If I can inspire some leaders, that would be great. I don't know if I want to be a leader.”

People Ifs Knows Way Want Feels I Can Important Would Be Leader Inspire Involved One Way Get Involved

Author:Samuel J. Wurzelbacher

“An institution that suffers from a plethora of leaders is surely in a bad way.”

Way Suffering Leader Institutions

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“We can only live the changes we wish to see: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create. We must break the obsolete social and economic systems that divide the world between the over-privileged and the under-privileged. Each of us, whether government leader or protester, business executive or worker, professor or student, share a common guilt.”

“If you can't toot your own horn, toot another woman's! It's the best way to elevate women to be leaders.”

Ifs Way Leader Best Way Horns Another Woman

Author:Geraldine Laybourne

“If I was trying to destroy this country, what I would do is find a way to drive wedges between all the people, drive the debt to an unsustainable level, and then step off the stage as a world leader and let our enemies increase while we decreased our capacity as a military person. And that's what [Hillary Clinton] doing.”

People Ifs World Way Trying Persons Country Levels Leader Steps Enemy Stage Military Capacity Increase Clinton Debt World Leader Wedges

Author:Benjamin Carson

“The leaders in Washington have got to come together in a bipartisan way and do the right thing for the people who are being left behind. We cannot have an America that is only based on the wealthy.”

People Way Together America Left Behinds Leader Right Thing Wealthy Left Behind Bipartisan

Author:Howard Schultz

“We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in that simply because we were denied education and dealt with enforced illiteracy. But people seem to always forget that literacy is not the only way of learning things or conveying knowledge.”

People Way Seems Used Black Forget Leader Creativity Battle Black People Denied Literacy Illiteracy Conveying

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“The media and even, to some degree, leaders of women's organizations don't understand that the women's movement is an absolute part of society now. It is in the consciousness, it is taken for granted. It is part of the way women look at themselves, and women are looked at.”

Way Looks Consciousness Leader Taken Media Movement Degrees Organization Absolutes Granted Taken For Granted

Author:Betty Friedan

“The way you get leaders to care about issues of conscience is to apply political pressure. It's less a question of persuading leaders directly and more trying to build a social movement that holds their feet to the fire.”

Way Trying Care Political Social Leader Issues Fire Feet Movement Conscience Pressure Social Movements Persuading

Author:Nicholas D. Kristof

“I saw that we needed to grow but our top line wasn't growing, so we had to find other ways to grow the business. We had to reshape our business and acquire share in a non conventional way. But most tech leaders don't come out of a business background. They really have a parochial point of view. All they know are the go-go years of Silicon Valley. That's the environment in which they were raised.”

“There are all sorts of ways a leader can foster interactive teaching and learning if he starts thinking, Where do I socially architect myself?”

Ifs Thinking Way Leader Teaching Architect Teaching And Learning Interactive

Author:Noel Tichy

“I have stopped waiting on our leaders. We have been forced to fear the system. But unless we change our ways and the way we see each other, we won't move forward.”

Way Has Beens Moving Waiting Leader Moving Forward

Author:Nneka

“It wouldn't cost too much to change the rules of trade so that poor countries can work their way out of poverty. But the world's leaders won't act unless they hear enough people telling them. And every day they fail to act, thousands of people die because they can't afford the basics of survival.”

People World Way Country Enough Dies Poor Leader Poverty Too Much Failing Cost Survival Trade Basics Ending Poverty Poor Countries

Author:Edward de Bono

“What's wrong with leading the way? We've played that role before, after all. We gave the world the secret ballot... that did so much to raise living standards and improve conditions for workers worldwide. We were a leader in extending to women the right to vote. We were barely a nation when we set the bar for bravery and sacrifice by common soldiers in foreign wars. We grew up out of racism and misogyny and homophobia to become a mostly tolerant, successful multicultural society. We did these great things because we know we are in it together. It is our core value as Australians.”

“The worst way to defend our freedom is to let our leaders start taking away our freedoms! It is exactly during times like these [a national crisis] that we need more freedom of speech, a strong and critical press, and a citizenry that is not afraid to stand up and say that the emperor has no clothes.”

Way Needs Strong Freedom Leader Worst Speech Clothes Crisis Presses Critical Not Afraid Freedom Of Speech Emperor Citizenry Times Like These

Book:Stupid White Men: And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!

Source: Stupid White Men: And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!

“Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track, and a one-way, but a person might travel a considerable distance on it. A number of dictators have.”

Way Persons Might Women Leadership Numbers Leader Accepting Distance Track Conviction One Way Consistent Dictator Being A Leader Departing

Book:To see the dream

Source: To see the dream

“There are many ways to study Walt Disney, but I think learning about Walt as a leader probably has had the biggest impact on me.”

Thinking Way Leader Study Impact Walt

Author:Pat Williams

“My feminism has evolved way beyond self-empowerment and I see feminism as a path to peace on earth. The fundamental imbalance that is behind all of the other social diseases is patriarchy. I do believe. As men and women, together, I really long to feel my society evolve its understanding since we're one of the leaders in the f-word. I want us to grow our idea of feminism collectively and get both men and women involved in undoing patriarchy. It's huge. It's a huge job.”

“We want to create, never mind the leaders or the bishops or chief rabbis or imams, or Popes. We want to create a grassroots movement where people will become attuned to uncompassionate discourse in the same way as we are now attuned to sort of gender imbalance in our speech.”

People Way Want Mind Leader Movement Speech Gender Chiefs Pope Discourse Bishops Imbalance Rabbi Grassroots Grassroots Movements

Author:Karen Armstrong

“There are two ways of destroying a people. Either condemn them en bloc or force them to repudiate the leaders they adopted. The second is the worse.”

People Way Two Force Leader Destroying Adopted Two Ways

Book:Loser wins: (Les séquestrés d'Altona : a play in five acts

Source: Loser wins: (Les séquestrés d'Altona : a play in five acts

“Mr. Gorbachev initiated Glasnost, Perestroika, so he was already, you know, way disenchanted with the rigid Communist ideology, and he was looking to become an international leader. He was more accepted actually outside of the Communist Soviet Union than inside.”

Knows Way Leader Unions International Accepted Ideology Communist Soviet Soviet Union Gorbachev Disenchanted Glasnost

Author:Deepak Chopra

“The only way to stop it [terrorism] is to work with the leaders of Islamic nations to insure that tolerance of other religions is taught again, that their people believe they have fair opportunities to participate in government and the economy, and that the social and cultural conditions that breed hatred are bred out.”

People Way Believe Government Opportunity Nations Social Leader Economy Conditions Taught Fairs Hatred Terrorism Tolerance Islamic

Author:Richard A. Clarke

“Perhaps our most debilitating rut as a culture is a dependence on experts. Until we kick this dependency, how can we rise above the statistics and become a nation of entrepreneurs and leaders? The answer, as challenging as it is, is for entrepreneurs to show us the way, and to keep at it until more of us start to heed.”

Way Shows Culture Nations Challenges Answers Leader Entrepreneur Experts Kicks Statistics Dependence Rise Above Heed Dependency Ruts

Author:Oliver DeMille

“There is no movement without the first follower. See, we are told that we all need to be leaders but that would be ineffective. The best way to make a movement, if you really care, is to courageously follow and show others how to follow.”

Ifs Way Needs Firsts Shows Would Be Care Leader Movement Best Way Followers

Author:Derek Sivers

“So the only way I could stave off any of these assaults was to become a gang banger, and to excel, so I could quell the behavior. If I excelled, then I could call the shots. So I became a community leader from inside.”

Ifs Way Community Leader Behavior Shots Assault Gang

Author:Malik Yusef

“I really do believe that the basic principle that Americans have the right to know what they're buying when they buy it is going to be something that spreads across this country very quickly, and that the food manufacturers would be wise to be leaders instead of trying to block this with lawsuits and other ways of trying to get their way.”

Knows Way Trying Believe Country Would Be Leader Principles Wise Spread Block Buying Being Wise Lawsuit Basic Principles

Author:Peter Shumlin

“The fastest way to change the feedback culture in an organization is for the leaders to become better receivers.”

Way Culture Leader Organization Feedback Receiver

Author:Sheila Heen

“What is clear is that business leaders must commit to champion change - to be transparent about their goals for change, to align their incentives systems to drive the change, and to make sure their work environments are flexible in a way that allows men and women who choose to work to be able to achieve all of their potential.”

Men Way Able Goal Leader Clear Environment Achieve Men And Women Commit Champion Flexible Incentives Transparent Business Leaders Work Environment

Author:Beth Brooke

“During conflicts and tense situations, women often work in a more collaborative way, include a larger variety of viewpoints, and function more frequently outside traditional hierarchical means. Women leaders often take a consolidated and reconciliatory position in the society.”

Way Mean Situation Leader Position Conflict Function Traditional Variety Tense Viewpoints Woman Leader

Author:Dalia Grybauskaite

“All that we know about the interaction between leaders and constituents or followers tells us that communication and influence flow in both directions; and in that two-way communication, nonrational, nonverbal, and unconscious elements play their part.”

Knows Way Two Play Leader Influence Communication Elements Flow Unconscious Followers Interaction Two Ways Constituents Nonverbal

Book:Leadership: An Overview

Source: Leadership: An Overview

“One generalization that is supported both by research and experience is that effective two-way communication is essential to proper functioning of the leader-follower relationship.”

Way Two Leader Communication Essentials Research Followers Two Ways Generalization

Book:LEADERSHIP PAPERS/3: THE HEART OF THE MATTER LEADER-CONSTITUENT INTERACTION

Source: LEADERSHIP PAPERS/3: THE HEART OF THE MATTER LEADER-CONSTITUENT INTERACTION

“The question of whether we were misled into the war in Iraq isn't a liberal or conservative or Republican or Democratic question, it's an American one. Protecting the democracy that we ask our sons and daughters to die for is our responsibility and our trust. Demanding accountability from our leaders is our job as citizens. It's the American way. So may the truth win out.”

Way May War Jobs Dies Asks Winning Responsibility Leader Democracy Son Citizens Republican Daughter Democratic Iraq Conservative Accountability Misled Son And Daughter

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“To take full advantage of the potential in e-business, leaders must lead differently, and people must work together differently. Let's call this new way of working e-culture-the human side of the global information era, the heart and soul of the new economy.”

People Way Humans Heart Soul Together Culture Sides Leader Economy Information Advantage Eras Working Together New Ways Heart And Soul Business Leaders

Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“As an organization changes your mindset as a leader also has to change. This becomes the lid to you organization. Whenever my organization starts to settle I believe I have to lift my lid, my capacity I have to think and act in a different way to achieve different results.”

Thinking Way Believe Different I Believe Results Leader Achieve Capacity Organization Mindset Lifts Settling Different Ways Changing Your Mind

Author:Craig Groeschel

“The Iranian leaders describe the American government exactly the way American analysts describe the Iranian one, as an opaque, factionalized system with competing power centers, over which the president exercises very limited authority.”

Way Government President Leader Exercise Authority Competing Iranian Analysts American Government Opaque

Author:Ali Khamenei

“I say to all those leaders, do not look the other way. Do not hesitate... It is within your power to avoid a genocide of humanity.”

Way Looks Leader Genocide

Author:Nelson Mandela

“My job as a leader is not to say, 'Hey, look at me. I'm a leader.' It's to lead. I mean, I've got to go out and find ways to win these games.”

Way Looks Mean Jobs Games Winning Leader Hey Look At Me

Author:Josh Freeman

“I have the possibility to watch Messi in training each morning, and because of what he demonstrates he is the best player in the world, he stated during a press conference. It is a pleasure to watch him, and because of the way he plays he is an undisputed leader of the Barcelona team.”

World Way Play Pleasure Leader Watches Morning Player Team Possibility Training Presses Conferences Best Players Barcelona Messi Watch Me Press Conferences Undisputed

Author:Thierry Henry

“Bill Clinton, who, to his credit, has established a clear and consistent foreign policy, which is as follows: Whenever the president of the United States gets anywhere near any foreign head of state, living or dead, he gives that leader a big old hug. This has proven to be an effective way to get foreign leaders to do what we want: Many heads of state are willing to sign any random document that President Clinton thrusts in front of them, without reading it, just so he will stop embracing them.”

Source: Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus

“The leader of a company needs to have a decision tree in his head - if this happens, we go this way, but if it winds up like that, then we go this other way.”

Ifs Way Needs Happens Decision Company Leader Tree Wind

Author:Sean Parker

“I try to work hard. I try to set a good example. I don't look at it as though I've got to be a leader. I just try to behave the way I think I should behave. If that results in a leadership role, great.”

Ifs Thinking Way Should Trying Looks Hard Results Leader Roles Example Hard Work Behave Good Examples Leadership Roles

Author:Matt Holliday

“I'm not the type of guy to go out and just say, 'Hey, I'm raising my fist to do this and do that.' I don't think I'm that type of guy. I wasn't a leader the way other people may have wanted me to be.”

People Thinking Way May Wanted Guy Leader Type Hey Fists Type Of Guy

Author:Willie Mays

“In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.”

Way Needs Children Together Parent Church Leader Children And Parents Time Together

Author:Boyd K. Packer

“No leader or organization can achieve breakout growth until it treats, "we've always done it this way" as an opportunity to think anew rather than as a reason to stop thinking. Keep in mind, tradition should be a guide, not a jailer.”

Thinking Way Should Mind Reason Done Opportunity Growth Leader Achieve Tradition Organization Treats Guides Jailer

Author:Michael Josephson

“I remember my mother saying to me on one occasion, 'Mel, I know that I can count on you.' I resolved that she would always be able to count on me. I would not let her down. I loved her too much. Her confidence in me meant everything. Today I still feel that way. I feel that way about the Brethren. I don't ever want to let President Hinckley or any of the other leaders of the Church down. But, even more important, I never want to let the Savior down, because I love Him more than anything else.”

Knows Way Want Feels Stills I Can Important Today Able Remember Mother President Church Leader Too Much Occasions Savior Brethren I Love Him Count On Me

Author:F. Melvin Hammond

“The unwillingness of most leaders to set standards, to administer feedback when standards are not met, to praise clearly when standards are met, stands in the way of the development of excellence. The leader who makes no demands of his disciples cannot really lead them at all. The sense of new excitement and new challenge generated by the gospel will be blunted by leaders who shield followers from the full demands of fellowship.”

Way Challenges Leader Development Mets Demand Standards Praise Excellence Excitement Followers Disciple Feedback Fellowship Shields New Challenges

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“A midnight knock on the door followed by execution is no way a leader should be treated.”

Way Should Leader Doors Treated Execution Midnight

Author:Tony Abbott

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