Best leadership & position Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“For a lot of women, one of the hardest things about leadership is the desire to be liked by everyone. That's often inconsistent with leadership. It's certainly inconsistent with taking positions on very controversial issues.”

Author:Charlene Li

“most of us persist in regarding leadership as synonymous with - indeed solely derived from - high position. Perhaps the notion of grass-roots leadership strikes us as too much of an oxymoron; confronted with apparent paradox, our imaginations fail. ... I believe that in the future, our ideas about the nature of leadership will undergo a radical transformation. As the instrumental use of knowledge continues to redefine the nature and purpose of organizations, we will begin to look at those on the front lines for leadership.”

“Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.”

Life Giving Order Leadership Position Duty Command Live Your Life Humiliation Humiliated

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“The end point of leadership is not just the position of power we reach, but the continual change and deepening we experience that makes a difference in our lives, our work, our world. Our leadership journeys are only at midpoint when we have achieved a position of power.”

World Ends Leadership Differences Our Lives Journey Position Making A Difference Our World Position Of Power

Book:Real Power: Stages of Personal Power in Organizations, Third Edition

Source: Real Power: Stages of Personal Power in Organizations, Third Edition

“Everybody who aspires to high positions of leadership in their state and in their country should be willing to take unscreened, unrehearsed questions from the people who pay their salary.”

People Should Country States Leadership Pay Position Willing Aspire Salary

Author:Jeb Bush

“Authority leads through position. Influence builds others out of relationship.”

Leadership Influence Position Authority

Author:Johnny Hunt

“Some people are into position, not the mission.”

People Leadership Position Missions

Author:Johnny Hunt

“Pride takes many forms, but spiritual pride is the most grievous. To become proud of spiritual gifts or leadership position is to forget that all we have is from God, all the position we occupy is God's appointment.”

Christian Spiritual Form Leadership Forget Position Pride Proud Appointments Spiritual Gifts Spiritual Pride

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

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

“Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.”

“To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.”

“We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.”

Giving Leadership Position Serious Silent Treated Treatment Iran Korea Adversaries North Korea Juvenile Bargaining Silent Treatment

Author:Theodore C. Sorensen

“In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.”

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Author:Margaret J. Wheatley

“Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”

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Author:John C. Maxwell

“A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.”

Source: The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow

“Leaders in all realms and activities of life knew that the power they had come to hold existed because they were responsible to serve the many, thus power was position of service.”

Leadership Leader Position Activity Responsible Realms

Author:Vanna Bonta

“Comparing the three domains, I found that for jobs of all kinds, emotional competencies were twice as prevalent among distinguishing competencies as were technical skills and purely cognitive abilities combined. In general the higher a position in an organization, the more EI mattered: for individuals in leadership positions, 85 percent of their competencies were in the EI domain.”

Kind Jobs Three Found Individual Leadership Ability Position Emotional Higher Skills Percent Organization Intelligence All Kinds Compare Domain Cognitive Competencies Technical Skills

Author:Daniel Goleman

“Leadership is an action, not a position.”

Motivational Action Leadership Position Television Broadcasting

Author:Donald McGannon

“The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass. She therefore makes sure she puts into the leadership position, into the standard-setting, the performance-making position the person who has the strength to do the outstanding pacesetting job. This always requires focus on the one strength of a person and dismissal of weaknesses as irrelevant unless they hamper the full deployment of the available strength.”

“Leadership is action, not position”

Inspirational Action Leadership Position Basketball Daring

Author:Donald McGannon

“There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.”

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Author:Ida Tarbell

“Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.”

“Leadership is no longer about your position. It's now more about your passion for excellence and making a difference You can lead without a title”

Passion Leadership Differences Position Excellence Titles Making A Difference Job Titles Passion For Excellence

Author:Robin Sharma

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

People Hard Found Leadership Position Management Manage

Author:Guy Kawasaki

“Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.”

Source: Why Men Fight

“It's such a rarity to have women in senior powerful positions. We can name them all. Fact is, women can handle power and handle it well. That's something I'd like a lot more women to understand.”

Wells Facts Names Leadership Powerful Position Handle Senior Rarity

Author:Christine Nixon

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