Agile Leadership Quotes

The sword doesn't change. So you have to adapt to the sword. You can't change your surroundings. They only change once you have changed. ~ Bjørn Aris

Agile coach: The individual is an agile expert who provides guidance for new agile implementations as well as existing agile teams. The agile coach is experienced in employing agile techniques in different environments and has successfully run diverse agile projects. The individual builds and maintains relationships with everyone involved, coaches individuals, trains groups, and facilitates interactive workshops. The agile coach is typically from outside the organization, and the role may be temporary or permanent. ~ Scott M. Graffius

Team performance is directly proportional to team stability. Focus on building and maintaining a stable team. Stability reduces friction and increases credibility and confidence. ~ Salil Jha

A good manager focuses on managing impediments, process, team's health, protects the boundaries of self-organizing teams, promotes a healthy culture, and helps eliminate waste. ~ Salil Jha

Agile project leaders help their team balance at the edge of chaos - some structure, but not too much; adequate documentation, but not too much; some up-front architecture work, but not too much. Finding these balance points is the "art" of agile leadership. ~ Jim Highsmith

Influencers connect with others before they take them anywhere. ~ Johnny Hunt

If I can't get the captains to respond appropriately and show the leadership I expect, how is anyone else going to respond? ~ Tony Dungy

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

If you want to know if I'm a Godly man, follow me home. ~ Andy Stanley

Leaders' careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for. ~ Tom Peters

The gravitas in a leader is like clarity in diamond. ~ Pearl Zhu

Leadership is all about getting results. ~ Peter Drucker

Leadership is giving out far more than one expects in direct return. The rewards are intangible, yet priceless. ~ T Jay Taylor

True leadership is about pulling forth the gold in everyone and believing in people before they deserve it. ~ Michael Brodeur

One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions. ~ Robert Shea

Your nation needs you. Your world needs you. So, use your education to become endowed with muscles of iron and nerves of steel. ~ Abhijit Naskar

You can't become a leader in one conference. ~ John C. Maxwell

Most people overestimate others' talents and underestimate their own. ~ Orrin Woodward

Generate great impressions. This is a direct result of setting higher standards for yourself in your speech, dress, living environment, grooming, etiquette, study, research and commitment. ~ Archibald Marwizi

It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Unchanged hearts are unled spirits. ~ Trisha Sebastian

Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is! ~ Tom Peters

The desire we so often hear expressed today for "episcopal figures," "priestly men," "authoritative personalities" springs frequently enough from a spiritually sick need for the admiration of men, for the establishment of visible human authority, because the genuine authority of service appears to be so unimpressive. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Values hold the team together, provide stability for the team to grow upon, measure the team's performance, give direction and guidance and attract like-minded people. ~ John C. Maxwell

Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic. ~ Horst Koehler

True leadership is often the mantle of the meek, who are rarely are prepared for such responsibility; which builds character in those who embrace it. ~ M.J. Stoddard

No one will give you change. You have to work for it. You have to earn it not by screaming, but by working hard, by believing in yourself, by proving yourself. There are windows, but if you are radical, no one will talk to you. And that window will shut. ~ Haifaa Al-Mansour

Positive questions bring out the best in people, inspire positive action, and create possibilities for positive futures. ~ Diana Whitney

Courageous leaders face unpleasant and even devastating situations with equanimity, then act firmly to bring good from trouble, even if their action is unpopular. Leadership always faces natural human inertia and opposition. But courage follows through with a task until it is done. ~ J. Oswald Sanders

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position. ~ Brian Tracy

For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string. ~ Spike Milligan

Imagine going to work every day to do only and exactly what you love!! All the work gets done because of the abundant diversity of your team. Different skills, interests and talents are woven together into a whole that is much greater than the sum of the parts! ~ Denise Moreland

Nobody is rewarded for occupying a position, but for becoming effective in the position occupied. If you occupy a position, you must have the weight of influence in order to matter! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

Comparing the three domains, I found that for jobs of all kinds, emotional competencies were twice as prevalent among distinguishing competencies as were technical skills and purely cognitive abilities combined. In general the higher a position in an organization, the more EI mattered: for individuals in leadership positions, 85 percent of their competencies were in the EI domain. ~ Daniel Goleman

People don't just show up and lie down in the middle of the street some place out of nothing. Somebody said meet me there, let's get together, and let's do this thing. The interesting thing is that we don't know who all of the leaders of these groups are, but we know that they're out there, and we know a new group of leadership is being created. It shows you that leadership can come from anywhere. ~ Julian Bond

Agile does not mean laissez-faire, flexibility and freedom are based on the well-defined principles. ~ Pearl Zhu

Don't get me wrong, loyalty is an admirable quality. But the number of years one has been around does not automatically equate with being a good leader, any more than does merely having the title of manager or vice president. And certainly the things we acquire- fine cars, nice homes- are not measures of our leadership ability.
Leadership, more than anything else, is about the way we think. It's a moment-to-moment disciplining of our thoughts. It's about practicing personal accountability and choosing to make a positive contribution, no matter what out role or "level". ~ John G. Miller

Now, do I think there has to be shared sacrifice among other nations in the world who want a stable and secure world? Absolutely, there has to be. But I don't think that America can ever abdicate its leadership role in the world because of who we are and where we've come from. We are the symbol for the world for freedom and liberty. ~ Chris Christie

Leadership is the self-confidence of working with people smarter than you. ~ Azim Premji

The leader releases energy, unites energies, and all with the object not only of carrying out a purpose, but of creating further and larger purposes. And I do not mean here by larger purposes mergers or more branches; I speak of larger in the qualitative rather than the quantitative sense. I mean purposes which will include more of those fundamental values for which most of us agree we are really living. ~ Mary Parker Follett

As I tell my children, 'If you are going to do something, do your best while you're doing it. ~ Michelle Moore

I was fortunate enough to have baseball to teach me the values relative to success. The sport gifted me with leadership and team building skills that translate in a relatable way in the world. ~ Willie Wilson

How do we create beauty in a broken world? How do we create a view of sustainability in an economy that is crashing? How do we reconfigure our lives, how do we pick up the pieces and create a meaningful life? So, yes, we have a different form of leadership but the questions remain the same. ~ Terry Tempest Williams