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“I don't yell at people, I don't mistreat people. I don't talk down to people, so no one else in this building, in this vicinity, has the right to do it.”

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Author:Oprah Winfrey

“If the experience of leadership is like being at the edge of an unfamiliar chasm, the act of leadership is building a bridge across that chasm.”

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Book:Leadership from the Inside Out: Becoming a Leader for Life

Source: Leadership from the Inside Out: Becoming a Leader for Life

“A good leader has a plan that consists of changing simple pictures. Just because a group of people has a bunch of boards, hammers, and nails does not mean that they are building a house or even anything recognizable. Sometimes leaders think they are doing their job just because there is a lot of hammering going on. As a society we like the sound of hammering, but we are uncomfortable with the sound of thinking, which is silence.”

Source: Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership

“The team developer realizes that at times the leadership 'torch' must be passed on to others. This empowerment of others serves a dual purpose; it helps them hone their own team-building skills and it brings a fresh approach, perhaps even a special expertise, to the group's efforts.”

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Book:The Language of leadership

Source: The Language of leadership

“And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz.”

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Author:Peter King

“When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.”

“A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.”

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Author:Robert Reich

“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”

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Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.”

Source: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”

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Author:Andrew Carnegie

“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”

“Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.”

“Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.”

“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.”

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Author:Winston Churchill

“Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.”

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Author:Michael Eisner

“You cannot be effective if those who work for you are not. So building their effectiveness ought to be a priority.”

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Book:The Bureaucratic Entrepreneur: How to Be Effective in Any Unruly Organization

Source: The Bureaucratic Entrepreneur: How to Be Effective in Any Unruly Organization