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Management Leadership - 3

• People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. . . . The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives. - Theodore Roosevelt

• The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. . . . The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. - Walter Lippmann

• There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant. - Liu Shao-ch'i

• There's no such thing as a race and barely such a thing as an ethnic group. If we were dogs, we'd be the same breed. . . . Trouble doesn't come from Slopes, Kikes, Niggers, Spics or White Capitalist Pigs; it comes from the heart. - P. J. O'Rourke  journalist

• If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. - Katharine Hepburn

• If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. - John F. Kennedy  U.S. Democratic politician, president.

• 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

•  Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with the important matters. - Albert Einstein

• Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. - Karen Kaiser Clark

• The quality of leadership, more than any other single factor, determines the success or failure of an organization. - Fred Fiedler & Martin Chemers Improving Leadership Effectiveness

• Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps. - David Loyd George

• There is no contest between the company that buys the grudging compliance of its work force and the company that enjoys the enterprising participation of its employees. - Ricardo Sempler 

• Excellence is not an accomplishment. It is a spirit, a never-ending process. - Lawrence M. Miller

• You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. - Colette

• The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you.- Max DePree  

• When what you are doing isn't working, you tend to do more of the same and with greater intensity. - Dr. Bill Maynard & Tom Champoux Heart

• Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.- Peter Drucker  

• A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: "Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain." - Max DePree

• Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.- Winston Churchill

• A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless ... someone's got to make a wake up call. - Warren Bennis

• I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation. - Warren Bennis

•  When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.- Lao Tse 

• Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity - George Patton

• Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans. - Peter Drucker

• Hell, there are no rules here--we're trying to accomplish something.- Thomas A. Edison

• Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true. - Lester R. Bittel The Nine Master Keys of Management  

• Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.- Adlai Stevenson

• Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure. - Admiral Arleigh A. Burke

• Where there is no vision, the people perish.- Proverbs 

• Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. - Mother Theresa

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