Lee Iacocca on the importance of communication
“You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere”
- Lee Iacocca
on how you make people feel
“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”
- Carl W. Buechner
Sam Walton on leadership
“Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.”
-Sam Walton
Where power comes from in leadership
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.
- Margaret Wheatly
Colin Powell on how to accomplish great deeds
“Organization doesn’t really accomplish anything. Plans don’t accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don’t much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.”
- Colin Powell
Benjamin Franklin on why we must work together
We must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
Daily Leadership Quote for 10-2-07
"The difference between the right word and the wrong word is like the difference between thelightning and the lightning bug."
- Mark Twain
on compromise
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.
~Henry Boye
Daily Quote for 4-19-07
"I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did
not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of
approval than under a spirit of criticism."
— Charles Schwab
Ken Blanchard quote on teamwork
None of us is as smart as all of us.
Ken Blanchard