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Management Leadership - 2

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. Dwight D. Eisenhower, US president
Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden. Isaac Watts English minister
An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success. Stephen R. Covey author
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.- Martin Luther King, Jr. US civil rights leader
Effective managers live in the present -- but concentrate on the future. James L. Hayes
Example is leadership. - Albert Schweitzer theologian, musician, medical missionary
I refuse to make a decision that somebody else can make. The first rule of leadership is to save yourself for the big decision. Don't allow your mind to become cluttered. Richard Nixon US president
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people. - Indira Gandhi , Indian political leader
I try to keep in touch with the details . . . I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you interfere, but it's important occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you understand what's happening. Rupert Murdoch US publisher
In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example -- and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved. Rupert Murdoch
Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it. Henry Mintzberg, US singer
Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. Tom Peters , author
Many people equate good management with perfection. This is a fallacy. If perfection could be achieved, there would be no need for management. James L. Hayes
Money does motivate but only for a short time and only as long as it serves as a measure of worth or of power or of victory. James L. Hayes
No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude. Rupert Murdoch , publisher
Take the ideas of the masses (scattered and unsystematic ideas) and concentrate them (through study turn them into concentrated and systematic ideas), then go to the masses and propagate and explain these ideas until the masses embrace them as their own, Mao Tse-Tung
The art of leadership. . . consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention. . . . Adolf Hitler
It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society. Martin Luther King, Jr. US civil rights leader
The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity. Mahatma Gandhi
Entertain great hopes. --Robert Frost
For myself, I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else. --Winston Churchill
God be praised, that to believing souls Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. --William Shakespeare
He who does not hope to win has already lost. --Jose Joaquin Olmedo
He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything. --Arabian Proverb
Beware how you take away hope from another human being. --Oliver Wendell Holmes
The reason for idleness and crime is the deferring of our hopes. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. --Anne Lamott
Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who hopes strongly, has within him the gift of miracles. --Samuel Smiles
Hope is a gift we give ourselves, and it remains when all else is gone. --Naomi Judd
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for .success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. --Vaclav Havel
Hope is always available to us. When we feel defeated, we need only take a deep breath and say, "Yes," and hope will reappear. --Monroe Forester - "Body, Mind and Spirit"
Hope is a thing with feathers, that perches in the soul. --Emily Dickinson
Hope is a waking dream. --Aristotle
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable. --Samuel Johnson
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords. --Samuel Johnson
Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake. --Matthew Prior
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible. --Unknown
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. --Henry Ford
If you have a lemon, make lemonade. --Howard Gossage
In all pleasure hope is a considerable part. --Samuel Johnson
It's unfulfilled dreams that keep you alive. --Robert Schuller
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. --Unknown
Morale is a state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. --General George Marshall
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. --Dale Carnegie
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory. --Norman Vincent Peale
Prosperity is not without many fears and disasters; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. --Francis Bacon
Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad. --Charles Dickens
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. --Eleanor Roosevelt
To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action, this, though not easy, is the work of divine man. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome. --Walter Anderson
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
We live by admiration, hope and love. --William Wordsworth
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit. --Norman Vincent Peale

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		Management Insights Management Leadership - 2 A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. Dwight D. Eisenhower, US president Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden. Isaac Watts English minister An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success. Stephen R. Covey author Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.- Martin Luther King, Jr. US civil rights leader Effective managers live in the present -- but concentrate on the future. James L. Hayes Example is leadership. - Albert Schweitzer theologian, musician, medical missionary I refuse to make a decision that somebody else can make. The first rule of leadership is to save yourself for the big decision. Don't allow your mind to become cluttered. Richard Nixon US president I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people. - Indira Gandhi , Indian political leader I try to keep in touch with the details . . . I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you interfere, but it's important occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you understand what's happening. Rupert Murdoch US publisher In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example -- and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved. Rupert Murdoch Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it. Henry Mintzberg, US singer Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. Tom Peters , author Many people equate good management with perfection. This is a fallacy. If perfection could be achieved, there would be no need for management. James L. Hayes Money does motivate but only for a short time and only as long as it serves as a measure of worth or of power or of victory. James L. Hayes No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude. Rupert Murdoch , publisher Take the ideas of the masses (scattered and unsystematic ideas) and concentrate them (through study turn them into concentrated and systematic ideas), then go to the masses and propagate and explain these ideas until the masses embrace them as their own, Mao Tse-Tung The art of leadership. . . consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention. . . . Adolf Hitler It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society. Martin Luther King, Jr. US civil rights leader The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity. Mahatma Gandhi Entertain great hopes. --Robert Frost For myself, I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else. --Winston Churchill God be praised, that to believing souls Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. --William Shakespeare He who does not hope to win has already lost. --Jose Joaquin Olmedo He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything. --Arabian Proverb Beware how you take away hope from another human being. --Oliver Wendell Holmes The reason for idleness and crime is the deferring of our hopes. --Ralph Waldo Emerson Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. --Anne Lamott Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who hopes strongly, has within him the gift of miracles. --Samuel Smiles Hope is a gift we give ourselves, and it remains when all else is gone. --Naomi Judd Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for .success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. --Vaclav Havel Hope is always available to us. When we feel defeated, we need only take a deep breath and say, "Yes," and hope will reappear. --Monroe Forester - "Body, Mind and Spirit" Hope is a thing with feathers, that perches in the soul. --Emily Dickinson Hope is a waking dream. --Aristotle Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable. --Samuel Johnson Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords. --Samuel Johnson Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake. --Matthew Prior Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible. --Unknown If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. --Henry Ford If you have a lemon, make lemonade. --Howard Gossage In all pleasure hope is a considerable part. --Samuel Johnson It's unfulfilled dreams that keep you alive. --Robert Schuller Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. --Unknown Morale is a state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. --General George Marshall Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. --Dale Carnegie Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory. --Norman Vincent Peale Prosperity is not without many fears and disasters; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. --Francis Bacon Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad. --Charles Dickens The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. --Eleanor Roosevelt To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action, this, though not easy, is the work of divine man. --Ralph Waldo Emerson True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome. --Walter Anderson We judge of man's wisdom by his hope. --Ralph Waldo Emerson We live by admiration, hope and love. --William Wordsworth Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit. --Norman Vincent Peale Page: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 IIM Executive Education and Management Training IIM experts research, develop and disseminate management-best-practices and learned-lessons from the leading management gurus. For advanced executive education and training opportunities, please refer to IIM's Management Leadership Training Courses in Las Vegas, USA Leadership Courses Online

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