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“Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.”

“It's very difficult to evaluate a leader in a very short-term perspective because to be a leader you must be able to have a long-term perspective. You must be able to carry changes which take many years. And this is why you can really only see whether it has been a good leadership after some years have passed.”

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Author:Gro Harlem Brundtland

“Women lead in ways different from men's. Men, I think, have been programmed to give orders. Women have been programmed to motivate people, to educate them, to bring out the best in them. Ours is a less authoritarian leadership. I think women tend to play hardball less often. This is the trend of office politics anyway: the days of warring factions are over. We're talking now in terms of cooperation, and I think that is the game women play best.”

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Author:Muriel Fox

“As women's leadership qualities come to play a more dominant role in the public sphere, their particular aptitudes for long-term negotiating, analytic listening, and creating an ambiance in which people work with zest and spirit will help reconcile the split between the ideals of being efficient and being humane. This integration of female values is already producing a more collaborative kind of leadership, and changing the very ideal of what strong leadership actually is.”

Source: The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership

“I'll tell you...why Wonder Woman worked. Or Bionic Woman. Or any of those [shows] really. It was because it wasn't about brawn...it was about brains. And yes, she happened to be beautiful, she happened to be kind of extraordinary in some way, but she wasn't a guy. And I think that, [now], they...put out a female hero, and all they are doing is changing the costume from a man to a woman...they're not showcasing any of the tremendous dichotomies than women possess in term of softness and toughness, sweetness and grit, inner and outer strength.”

“Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.”

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Author:Seth Godin

“I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.”

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Author:John Hume

“When it is all about winning, once you've done it, you lose interest; stay focus on helping/developing young people as your long-term goal.”

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Author:Bradford Winters

“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

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

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

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Author:Jack Welch

“Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.”

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Book:Statecraft As Soulcraft: What Government Does

Source: Statecraft As Soulcraft: What Government Does

“Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!”

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Author:Tom Peters

“Leaders will not experience long-term success unless a lot of people want them to.”

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Author:John C. Maxwell