Quotes on Leadership
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One of the quotes on leadership that Dwight D. Eisenhower made was,
You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
I actually have an experience of a leader who actually think that leadership is about dictating people’s actions and scolding them or hitting them all the time.
This leader scolded the team at almost every meeting, lecturing about why they aren’t meeting targets and that their hearts were not on their tasks.
And guess what, he ended up with a bunch of very demoralized individuals.
I wondered to myself why he had to behave like that, and I reasoned that these people believe that all that scolding is about teaching and instilling discipline.
Yes it’s true that there are times where scolding is necessary. However, I find that extremely rare.
When you are leading a group of adults, I believe that a good serious heart to heart talk together would do the job.
Even in the military, Eisenhower himself believes that it’s not about treating people like objects to be hit. And yet Eisenhower is one of the most successful military leaders in history.
When you are in a leadership position, you can either get
• commitment or
• conformity from your team
If you have a formal position of leadership, yes, your verbal and physical punishment might work to change behaviours, but it will never work to change hearts in the long run.
You’ll end up with a group of people who go through the motion of doing their tasks but you will never win their hearts anymore.
Therefore watch yourself as a leader, watch how you react to deviant behaviours of your team. Your reaction will either gain respect or cause you to lose it.
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Herbert B. Swope:
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody.
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Isaac Newton:
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants.
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General George S. Patton:
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
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Goethe:
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
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Mahatma Gandhi:
If I have the belief that I can do it, I will surely acquire the capacity to do it, even if I may not have it at the beginning.
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Vince Lombardi:
Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
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Donald Trump:
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
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John Wooden:
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
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Jack Welch:
Control your own destiny or someone else will.
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Abraham Lincoln:
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward
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Nicco Machiavelli:
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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Pearl S Buck:
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
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Anonymous:
There is no I in Team.
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