“I think good actors - good, collaborative actors who see themselves as leaders in a given production - can and should offer ideas that have nothing to do with wanting to direct themselves.” ThinkingShouldIdeasActorsGivenLeaderOffersDirectProductionsGood Actors Author:Joe Mantello
“We have entered a new and different world-richly interconnected and radically multicentric-in which the traditional holders of power have to move over and make room for new stakeholders, new players, and new leaders of many kinds. Nobody in Charge, drawing on the learnings of a wise and widely experienced public executive, offers some priceless insights into how things have changed, where they are now, and where we may be going next in this bewildering terrain.” WorldKindMayDifferentMovingNextRoomsLeaderWisePlayerChangedOffersInsightDrawingTraditionalExecutivesPricelessDifferent WorldsInterconnectedTerrainThings Have ChangedStakeholder Author:Walter Truett Anderson
“Part of America's industrial problems is the aim of its corporate managers. Most American executives think they are in the business to make money, rather than products or service. The Japanese corporate credo, on the other hand, is that a company should become the world's most efficient provider of whatever product and service it offers. Once it becomes the world leader and continues to offer good products, profits follow.” ThinkingWorldShouldProblemHandsAmericaCompanyLeaderProductsOffersAimProfitManagersMaking MoneyCorporateExecutivesEfficientWorld LeaderProvidersCredo Author:W. Edwards Deming
“In I'm Not A Racist, But..., Lawrence Blum offers answers for our time about what race is, who is a racist, and ways for people to talk about the racialized features of our society without falling into name-calling or defensiveness. With exemplary moral and analytic clarity, Blum offers educators, students, lawyers, judges, leaders, and citizens tools for building a nation of equality, comity, and respect for each person.” PeopleWayPersonsFallNamesNationsAnswersRaceLeaderMoralStudentsBuildingJudgingCitizensCallingOffersToolsLawyerClarityFeaturesOur TimeOur SocietyRacistEducatorAnalyticsExemplaryName CallingDefensiveness Author:Martha Minow
“To be a good boss, you must be transparent. Theres a correlation between worker happiness and workplace transparency. Leaders and managers who offer transparency will earn the respect and devotion of their team.” LeaderTeamOffersWorkersDevotionManagersBossWorkplaceTransparentTransparencyCorrelationGood Boss Author:David Niu
“The truth of the matter is one knows what it's like being the president. Not I, nor any president to come hence. This is because life, thankfully, offers deeper quandaries. While in office, I would often wake up in a daze, wondering how I could wiggle my toes without even thinking it so, or why hair grows only on certain places and not our entire bodies, or why we aren't completely bald, or why we must close our eyes and sleep every night, or any of the millions of particulars of daily existence, let alone that I was elected the leader of an entire nation.” ThinkingKnowsMatterBodyEyeNightCertainNationsGrowsPresidentSleepExistenceLeaderWonderMillionsHairOffersOfficeWake UpDeeperEvery NightToesDaze Author:George Washington
“There are those who offer themselves as leaders who even play politics with a nomination of our nations chief law enforcement officer, finally, Loretta Lynch will be able to assume the position she has trained her lifetime for.” PlayAbleLawPoliticsNationsLeaderPositionOffersAssumingLifetimeChiefsOfficersLaw EnforcementEnforcementNominations Author:Hillary Clinton
“If Americans are working harder than ever earning less than they once did, our government and our leaders should step up, offer a plan, fix what's wrong -- or they should step aside, the recovery has been everywhere but in the family paychecks. The American Dream has become a mirage for far too many.” IfsShouldHas BeensDreamGovernmentLeaderStepsPlansOffersHarderRecoveryAmerican DreamEarningStep UpPaychecksMirages Author:Jeb Bush
“Scientists and religious leaders, activists and first nation leaders, CEOs of corporations and actors, all of us need to come together right now, because the planet is in a lot of pain. My job doesn’t always feel like an integral part of the change that needs to occur. If I can offer, in my profession, to do things that are going to allow more people to connect with certain issues, then I hope it’s useful.” PeopleIfsNeedsFeelsFirstsI CanPainTogetherJobsCertainActorsNationsReligiousActingLeaderIssuesPlanetsOffersScientistProfessionCorporationsActivistCeoReligious Leaders Author:Ellen Page
“I don't want to be a leader. I want to be one who goes around with a little oil can and offer help when I see a breakdown.” WantLittlesHelpingLeaderOffersOilBreakdown Author:Baba Amte
“You can offer the ability to citizens to choose from one of the two parties and elect their leaders as much as you want. But "democracy" is an illusion - a sham - if the most significant acts taken by those leaders are kept concealed from the citizenry.” IfsWantTwoAbilityPartyLeaderDemocracyTakenCitizensOffersIllusionSignificantConcealedCitizenry Author:Glenn Greenwald
“Mounting a campaign against plutocracy makes as much sense to the typical Washington liberal as would circulating a petition against gravity. What our modernized liberal leaders offer is not confrontation but a kind of therapy for those flattened by the free-market hurricane: they counsel us to accept the inevitability of the situation.” KindSituationLeaderAcceptingOffersCampaignsTherapyGravityTypicalFree MarketHurricanesConfrontationInevitabilityPetitionsPlutocracy Author:Thomas Frank
“As leaders, we're giving out grades in every encounter we have with people. We can choose to give out grades as an expectation to live up to, and then we can reassess them according to performance. Or we can offer grades as a possibility to live into. The second approach is much more powerful.” PeopleGivingPowerfulLeaderPossibilityOffersApproachExpectationsPerformancesEncountersGrades Author:Benjamin Zander
“I offer myself as a leader to the people of this country because I think they're looking for solutions, not lawyers arguing over laws or entertainers throwing out sound bites that draw media attention. We need to solve the problem.” PeopleThinkingNeedsCountryProblemLawSoundAttentionLeaderMediaOffersSolutionsDrawsSolveLawyerArguingBitesThrowingEntertainersSound Bites Author:Ted Cruz
“And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind is closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and do it gladly so.” NeedsMindWarHateLeaderRightsBloodOffersFeverBlindedCitizenryJuliusFervorSeizingFever Pitch Author:Julius Caesar
“Some good leaders are rough around the edges and some leaders are difficult. Some have difficult personalities and some are really nice to be around, but those are not the qualifications. The qualifications are their desire to see us achieve more, their desire to push us to be the best we can be. Not for their selfish gain, but because they believe that we have something to offer.” BelieveDesireDifficultLeaderNiceAchievePersonalityOffersGainsEdgesSelfishBeing The BestRoughReally NiceQualificationsGood Leader Author:Simon Sinek
“ALEC has forged a unique partnership between state legislators and leaders from the corporate and business community. This partnership offers businessmen the extraordinary opportunity to apply their talents to solve America's problems and build on our opportunities.” StatesProblemAmericaOpportunityCommunityLeaderTalentOffersUniqueExtraordinarySolveCorporatePartnershipBusinessmanLegislatorsForged Author:Ronald Reagan
“To fight for one's country, to offer one's very life to promote the well being of the United States, is truly a noble undertaking. But so is the vigilance of the citizen who carefully examines our leaders to see if political problems are being solved by wars simply because this seems to be the easiest solution.” IfsWellsWarCountryStatesProblemSeemsPoliticalFightingUnitedLeaderUnited StatesCitizensOffersSolutionsNobleWell BeingUndertakingsVigilanceEternal Vigilance Author:Walter Dean Myers
“This country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.” CountryLeaderVisionOffersEnvyBitterAlternativesDivides Author:Mitt Romney
“Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.” LyingAsksLeaderFoolOffersSlaverySellsTreasureLiarsCowardControlledTyrantsThievesStolenOpportunistForethoughtThose You Love Book:Parable of the Talents Source: Parable of the Talents
“The mistake our politicians so often make with these industry leaders is in thinking they are interested in, or respectful of, the power of government. All they want is to keep stealing. If you can offer them the government’s seal of approval on that, they’ll take it. But if you can’t, well, they’ll take that too.” IfsThinkingWantWellsGovernmentMistakeLeaderIndustryPoliticianOffersStealingApprovalRespectfulSeals Book:Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America Source: Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America