Adaptive Leadership Quotes

Take in every detail of your environment and adapt. ~ Carlos Wallace

Congress has a deep, vested interest in its own inefficiency. ~ Robert A. Caro

The government of the world's most powerful nation is running furiously in place. ~ Ron Suskind

New characters always cause a reshuffle. ~ The Grinder

Awful momentum makes carrying through easier than calling off folly. ~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Authenticity is our natural state of being. The authentic self is a state of being where we are centered, creative, adaptive, and inspired. ~ Henna Inam

Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition. ~ Ronald A. Heifetz

Leadership is ultimately about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen. ~ Alan Keith

You could wait for the world to invite you to the banquet and the ball. Or you could just show up in your red dress and your headdress ready to boogie. ~ Tama J. Kieves

Nothing in this World is Static...Everything is Kinetic..
If there is no 'progression'...there is bound to be 'regression'... ~ Abha Maryada Banerjee

The secret to leadership is not to be a particularly intelligent person. It is to surround oneself with those far smarter than oneself. And try not to kill them. ~ Kameron Hurley

We are far more effective on the inside looking out than the outside looking in. ~ Helen Lynch

1 Minute Wisdom: Rethink Your Mindset because how you view, filter, interpret and automatically give meaning your experiences; is what you'll believe them to be. ~ Tony Dovale

We're looking forward to a great season at the University of California - if we find a way to put cleats on their sandals. ~ Ronald Reagan

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

That's what wrong. We've got people whose wallets have not been baptized. ~ Johnny Hunt

Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers. ~ Robin S. Sharma

A president has to provide leadership to gain support. ~ Donald Rumsfeld

Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Neoteny is more than retaining a youthful appearance, although that is often part of it. Neoteny is the retention of all those wonderful qualities that we associate with youth: curiosity, playfulness, eagerness, fearlessness, warmth, energy. Unlike those defeated by time and age, our geezers have remained much like our geeks – open, willing to take risks, hungry for knowledge and experience, courageous, eager to see what the new day brings. Time and lost steal the zest from the unlucky, and leave them looking longingly at the past. Neoteny is a metaphor for the quality – and the gift – that keeps the fortunate of whatever age focused on all marvelous undiscovered things to come. ~ Warren G. Bennis

One of the things we know is that you cannot motivate other people, but you can remove the obstacles that stop them from motivating themselves. All motivation is self-motivation. ~ Brian Tracy

It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals. ~ George Washington

Having and understanding of the 'why' will help having an understanding of the 'how'. ~ Bobby Darnell

His level of experience is nearly transcendent. ~ Davis Miller

Some people are into position, not the mission. ~ Johnny Hunt

Charles Kernaghan is a legitimate American hero ... Through his determination he has forced the leadership in our country and many other countries around the world to pay attention. Kernaghan has done more to expose child labor than has the whole Department of Labor that has a budget of hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars, because he has the guts and determination to do it. ~ Bernie Sanders

The House has passed several bipartisan bills to ensure all Americans have the opportunity to secure a good job to provide for their families. All of these jobs bills deserve the support of our Senators and a strong show of leadership from the president. ~ Joe Heck

Staying close yet just ahead of those you lead reduces the pressure on everyone. ~ Chris Hutchinson

People don't need you to fix them, they are not broken, just serve them. ~ Malti Bhojwani

You deserve what you tollerate. ~ Ramon Colon-Lopez

Consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but law, morality and leadership demand it. Without consistency, there is privilege. ~ Paul Craig Roberts

Technology makes possibilities. Design makes solutions. Art makes questions. Leadership makes actions. ~ John Maeda

Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity ~ Reed Markham

It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform. ~ Andy Hargreaves

As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles ... The best of all leaders is the man who teaches people to lead themselves. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Problem-solving leaders have one thing in common: a faith that there's always a better way. ~ Gerald M. Weinberg

We all have goals and dreams. Say them aloud to yourself; if they don't sound slightly impossible then they aren't set high enough. ~ Noel DeJesus

To be accountable means that we are willing to be responsible to another person for our behavior and it implies a level of submission to another's opinions and viewpoints. ~ Wayde Goodall

I've written about the giving of trust as though it were a simple formula for building loyalty. But it isn't simple at all. The talent that is an essential ingredient of leadership tells the leader whom to trust and how much to trust and when to trust. The rule is (as with children) that trust be given slightly in advance of demonstrated trustworthiness. But not too much in advance. You have to have an unerring sense of how much the person is ready for. Setting people up for failure doesn't make them loyal to you; you have to set them up for success. Each time you give trust in advance of demonstrated performance, you flirt with danger. If you're risk-averse, you won't do it. And that's a shame, because the most effective way to gain the trust and loyalty of those beneath you is to give the same in equal measure. ~ Tom DeMarco

Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens. ~ Janos Kadar

The task of the strategist and leadership team is to reduce uncertainty in the areas that they can directly influence in order to pursue attractively difficult objectives. ~ Max McKeown

A weak King must be what other Kings have been; a strong King is himself, and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed. ~ Orson Scott Card

Chris Salamone has create and develop educational and leadership development programs for our nation's youth and
young adults that have provided many opportunities for students to grow and develop. ~ Chris Salamone

I know I am only one, but I am one, and just because I'm one should not stop me from ~ Edward Everett Hale