Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there. — John P. Kotter
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. — Norman Schwarzkopf
Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it. — Robert Greene
Weak leadership can wreck the soundest strategy — Sun Tzu
Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome. — John P. Kotter
The real heart of strategy is the strategist. — Max McKeown
Leadership is the ability to step outside the culture to start evolutionary change processes that are more adaptive. — Edgar Schein
Strategic planning is not strategic thinking. Indeed, strategic planning often spoils strategic thinking, causing managers to confuse real vision with the manipulation of numbers. — Henry Mintzberg
Strategy is about stretching limited resources to fit ambitious aspirations. — C. K. Prahalad
The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy. — Michael Porter
Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different. — Michael Porter
Leaders make decisions that create the future they desire. — Mike Murdock
Leaders are focused on using their vision and courage to do great things. — Lewis Howes
Sound strategy starts with having the right goal — Michael Porter
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. — Warren G. Bennis
Leadership Quotes
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. — Colin Powell
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly. — Jim Rohn
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.
Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could. — Steve Jobs
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership. — Nelson Mandela
The most important ingredient of leadership is character. Most of the proficiencies can be learned, but what's inside you is something that's difficult to change. — Jesse Robredo
Be a leader by example. Be confident and humble. Love the unloved.
Leadership is all about people. It is not about organizations. It is not about plans. It is not about strategies. It is all about people-motivating people to get the job done. You have to be people-centered. — Colin Powell
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. — Harry S. Truman
You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'. — George Bernard Shaw
Strategic Planning Quotes
Simplicity and common sense should characterize planning and strategic direction. — Ingvar Kamprad
If there's one thing that people fail to appreciate about the social justice movement where it interfaces with the academy is that just because what is being said is crazy to the point of absurdity does not mean that the strategic plan is absurd. — Bret Weinstein
Further diversifying our economy is a key strategic focus of our future plans. It is therefore necessary to accelerate economic development efforts to continue building a leading global economy, to enhance our competitiveness and achieve the highest global rankings. — Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Leadership is not about being in charge. Leadership is about taking care of those in your charge.
There's a path for everyone — as long as you have self-awareness and the willingness to think five moves ahead. — Patrick Bet-David
They wanted war as part of their strategic grand plan to destroy any country such as Russia that resists American imperial expansion. They only pretend to think it was unprovoked. They are lying to us, manufacturing consent for war. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Leadership is an action, not a position.
We have a strategic plan. It's called 'doing things'. — Herb Kelleher
Strategic planning for the future is the most hopeful indication of our increasing social intelligence. — William H. Hastie
Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of resources to action. But quantification alone is not planning. Some of the most important issues in strategic management cannot be quantified at all. — Peter Drucker
The strategic initiatives we propose to undertake as part of our plan over the next few years position us well to lead this evolution. — Azim Premji
Business Leadership Quotes
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things. — Ronald Reagan
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. — James A. Baldwin
I didn't follow the policies of those already in the business. If I had, I would never have made a go of it. Instead, I started out with the determination to make a better nickel chocolate bar than any of my competitors made, and I did so. — Milton S. Hershey
Leadership simply begins with the courage to be yourself. So everyone else can be, too.
Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to. — Richard Branson
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. — Andrew Carnegie
There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out. — Pat Riley
The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them. — John C. Maxwell
You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. — Steve Jobs
Leadership is not for the faint of heart — Bill Hybels
Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant. — Zig Ziglar
Good Leadership Quotes
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. — Stevie Wonder
He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. — Aristotle
A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops. — John J. Pershing
You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings. — Zhuge Liang
He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a saint, or a mahatma or more likely a humbug but he certainly won't make a leader or for that matter a good soldier — Sam Manekshaw
A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there. — David Gergen
To use the dollar as a tool of foreign policy struggle is one of the biggest strategic mistakes made by the U.S political leadership. It is a stupid mistake. Does anyone in the United States realize this? What are you doing? You are cutting yourself off. Even the United States allies are now downsizing their dollar reserves. — Vladimir Putin
The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men. — Sun Tzu
Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-ori ented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed.... Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection. — Sheryl Sandberg
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success — Stephen Covey
Don't just let your career happen to you. You need to be strategic about how you define your leadership journey and where that takes you. — Denise Morrison
Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven from the top are marginally effective - at best. — Peter Senge
So has the strategic decision been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction by the leadership in Baghdad? I think our judgment has to be clearly not. — Colin Powell
Be yourself. Hillary Clinton, you have a great vision for our country. You know the policy, you have good judgment that springs from that. You're a strategic thinker, and you have a connection with the American people that springs from a lifetime of service and leadership to them, to America's working families. So, just go talk about that. Forget the script, forget everything else. Just be Hillary Clinton. Be yourself. — Nancy Pelosi
I have led the way for moving women from traditional roles to strategic positions and inspired girls and women throughout Africa to seek leadership positions. — Dalia Grybauskaite
The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States. — John Olver
We are not responsible for our endowments or natural abilities, but we are responsible for the strategic use of time. — J. Oswald Sanders
This is a major strategic challenge affecting not only our military, but ultimately, America's leadership in the global world order, we are at a point where our national aspirations are at risk of exceeding our available resources. — Martin Dempsey
Leadership is the process of motivating, mobilizing, resourcing, and directing people to passionately and strategically pursue a vision from God that a group jointly embraces. — George Barna
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