Best leadership & management Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The important word there is inspire. The key difference between managers and leaders is that managers tell people what to do, while leaders inspire them to do it. Inspiration comes from three things: clarity of one's vision, courage of their conviction and the ability to effectively communicate both of those things.”

“many rules could be made for the giving of orders. Don't preach when you give orders. Don't discuss matters already settled unless you have fresh data. Make your direction so specific that there will be no question whether they have been obeyed or not. Find out how to give directions and yet to allow people opportunity for independent thinking, for initiative. And so on and so on. Order-giving requires just as much study and just as much training as any other skill we wish to acquire.”

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Author:Mary Parker Follett

“An order then should always be given not as a personal matter, not because the man giving it wants the thing done, but because it is the demand of the situation. And an order of this kind carries weight because it is the demand of the situation.”

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Book:Freedom and Co-ordination (RLE: Organizations): Lectures in Business Organization

Source: Freedom and Co-ordination (RLE: Organizations): Lectures in Business Organization

“Now that we are recognizing more fully the value of the individual, now that management is defining more exactly the function of each, many are coming to regard the leader as the man who can energize his group, who knows how to encourage initiative, how to draw from all what each has to give.”

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Author:Mary Parker Follett

“In Business School they taught us about cash flow, not about corporate politics; about return on equity, not about egos and pride. Oh, there were optional courses on 'Organizational Behavior' and 'Managerial Skills,' but these were a little too bloodless to convey what I learned on the job.”

Source: Powerplay: what really happened at Bendix

“The easiest thing is to react. The second easiest thing is to respond. But the hardest thing is to initiate. – When people ask you to tell them what to do, resist.”

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Author:Seth

“The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.”

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Book:The Essential Bennis

Source: The Essential Bennis

“Management is nothing more than motivating other people.”

Source: Iacocca: An Autobiography

“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success”

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

“The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.”

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”

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Author:Ralph Nader

“Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.”

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Author:Tom Peters

“Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.”

“Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.”

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Book:The Essential Bennis

Source: The Essential Bennis

“Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.”

Source: Managing People is Like Herding Cats

“Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.”

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Author:Warren G. Bennis

“Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“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

“Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”

“You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.”

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Author:Norman Schwarzkopf

“Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.”

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Author:Simon Sinek

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”

“Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.”

“Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.”

“Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.”

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Author:Jack Welch

“The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.”

Source: Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle

“If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.”

“Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.”

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Author:Seth Godin

“A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.”

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Author:John le Carre

“I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.”

“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”

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Author:Laozi

“You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.”

“Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.”

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Book:First Things First

Source: First Things First

“Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.”

Source: Managing People is Like Herding Cats

“How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a group.”

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Author:John Harvey-Jones

“I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example. I want to make sure there is no discrepancy between what we say and what we do. If you preach accountability and then promote somebody with bad results, it doesn't work. I personally believe the best training is management by example. Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.”

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Author:Carlos Ghosn

“Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.”

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Book:My American Journey

Source: My American Journey

“...in the words of Max DePree: "Management has a lot to do with answers. But leadership is a function of questions. And the first question for a leader always is: 'Who do we intend to be?' Not 'What are we going to do?' but 'Who do we intend to be?'"”

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Book:Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

Source: Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

“When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people.”

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Author:Guy Kawasaki

“Great companies with the way they work, first start with great leaders.”

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Author:Steve Ballmer

“If you want to manage somebody, manage yourself. Do that well and you'll be ready to stop managing. And start leading.”

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Author:Mark Gonzales

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