Cio Leadership Quotes

Applying the right procedures and policies to asset management allows IT to create a realistic budget with few surprises, and keep best practices to adapt to "continuous changes. ~ Pearl Zhu

Digital-savvy CIOs can envision the upcoming business trends and have both "sense and sensitivity" to understand people and lead effortlessly. ~ Pearl Zhu

It is what the "I" stands for - Information, Innovation, Insight, Improvement, or Influence, that needs to be represented by CIOs in the Boardroom. ~ Pearl Zhu

The CIO must now wear many hats, and see the forest through the trees. ~ Pearl Zhu

CIOs need to be IT evangelists and learn to sell, speak business. ~ Pearl Zhu

Prepare, listen, question, and participate. IT plays a critical role in taking the organization to the next level of digital maturity. ~ Pearl Zhu

From average to great is a leadership journey; it takes vision, passion, confidence, problem-solving skills, and teamwork to match up. ~ Pearl Zhu

A CIO needs to be better-rounded than to have a title of "logical" or "creative. ~ Pearl Zhu

The tough choice facing CIOs is not about only picking one identity as either being strategic or tactical, but about - when acting as a strategic leader, when playing as a tactical manager. ~ Pearl Zhu

Outlier" CIOs have better capabilities to connect innovation dots. ~ Pearl Zhu

You need a strategy to assume leadership, but only the character can sustain leaders as who they really are. ~ Pearl Zhu

I think leadership of any kind requires trust and transparency and voters should demand no less from their political leadership in government. ~ Carly Fiorina

In Pierre Trudeau, Canada has finally produced a Prime Minister worthy of assassination. ~ John Diefenbaker

In my first leadership position, I mistakenly thought that being named the leader meant that I was the leader. Back then I defined leading as a noun - as the position I was appointed to - not a verb - as what I was doing. Though I had been hired as the senior pastor, I quickly discovered the real leader of the church was a down-to-earth farmer named Claude, who had been earning his leadership influence through many positive actions over many years. He later explained it to me, saying, "John, all the letters ~ John C. Maxwell

It is clearly important for all leadership candidates to be open and transparent about their tax affairs. I was very happy to publish mine today, and hope others will follow suit. ~ Theresa May

Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership. ~ Bob Etheridge

The liberal wing of the feminist movement may have improved the lives of its middle- and upper-class constituency
indeed, 1992 was the Year of the White Middle Class Woman
but since the leadership of this faction of the feminist movement has singled out black men as the meta-enemy of women, these women represent one of the most serious threats to black male well-being since the Klan. ~ Ishmael Reed

The will to win is more important then the skill to win. It is possible to achieve only what you actively pursue. Cogito, ergo sum. I think, therefore I am. Keep your head high and work hard everyday, because you'll never get that day back ~ Lloy Ball

when you want to go up that mountain and everyone else around you is telling you that is too hard, and you'll never going to make it, please listen to that small voice inside your heart and one day you will reach the mountain top ~ Manuel Corazzari

Winning is a habit - leadership is calmly maintaining that habit against all odds. ~ Amit Ray

I want to live in light of eternity. I want to do now what I'll be glad I did then. ~ Johnny Hunt

We sainted St. Tammany (King Tamanend III) because he embodied moral perfection and every divine qualification that a deity could possess. I hold him in higher esteem than the saints of the Roman Catholic Church. He'll forever be the patron saint of America. ~ George Washington

America is a great power possessed of tremendous military might and a wide-ranging economy, but all this is built on an unstable foundation which can be targeted, with special attention to its obvious weak spots. If America is hit in one hundredth of these weak spots, God willing, it will stumble, wither away and relinquish world leadership. ~ Osama Bin Laden

If you can give the wisdom of life to a child; teach to love all regardless of what they believe in, that life is a precious gift to all, judgments of hell and heaven are manmade concept and that every one's purpose in life is to serve Humanity at large... ~ Husam Wafaei

I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead you out of it. ~ Eugene V. Debs

Teaching is an emotional practice: it activates, colors & expresses people's feelings. ~ Andy Hargreaves

Pride refuses to be taught. Humility refuses not to be ~ Brad Lomenick

The only real payoff for leadership is eternal. ~ Patrick Lencioni

Jonathan had been around Washington long enough to know that no offer was exactly what it seemed. ~ Stephen L. Carter

The time to lead is now. ~ Joelle Charbonneau

Leadership view is multidimensional with the full spectrum of colors. ~ Pearl Zhu

You should always be prepared to defend your choices, whether just to yourself (sometimes this is the hardest) or to your coworkers, your friends, or your family. The quickest way for people to lose confidence in your ability to ever make a decision is for you to pass the buck, shrug your shoulders, or otherwise wuss out. Learning how to become a decision maker, and how you ultimately justify your choices, can define who you are. ~ Alyssa Mastromonaco

Who have you chosen to become? ~ Bill Jensen

A set of excellent questions themselves is perhaps like a poem, both philosophical and intellectual. ~ Pearl Zhu

Yahoo! is the only company with both scale and leadership in branded and search advertising. ~ Terry Semel

Women in leadership roles can help restore balance and wholeness to our communities. ~ Wilma Mankiller

A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs. ~ Robert Townsend

Since the debt limit simply accommodates debt that has already been incurred, raising it should, in theory, be perfunctory. But politicians have found it a useful shibboleth for showing their fealty fiscal discipline, even as they vote to ratify the debts their previous actions have a beginning the country to pay. The symbol of railing against debt has proven politically beneficial, even if not substantively meaningful. ~ Thomas E. Mann

There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle ... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender. ~ Peter Pace

I am honored that my freshman class colleagues have put their trust in me to represent our historic class at the leadership table. The incoming freshman class of Representatives is large and diverse but we share many common goals including cutting wasteful spending, getting our economy back on track and making government smarter and more efficient. ~ Kristi Noem

Control your own Destiny or somebody else will ~ Jack Welch

You hire the best people you can possibly find. Then it's up to you to create an environment where great people decide to stay and invest their time. ~ Rich Lesser

Well, I've ruffled a few feathers at all the institutions I've led. But I think that's part of leadership. ~ Robert M. Gates

Speak out, educate, do not be intimidated by the apologists, and do not let extreme racism be mainstreamed. Hopefully there will come a time when we don't need to tell our kids that Halloween is no excuse for hate, and that blackface has no place in a civilized society. ~ Christine Pelosi

Effective leaders let people discover things for themselves. ~ Jean Illsley Clarke

You can't effectively move up to the next stage of leadership yourself until your current stage leadership skills are solid and are being developed in your team members so they can take over as you move on. ~ Liz Weber

Whether it was his ability to turn around the Massachusetts economy or turn around businesses in the private sector, Mitt Romney has demonstrated the leadership that we need in the White House to get the country on the right track. ~ Lisa Murkowski

Leadership is about inspiration with character, not manipulation with position! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

When I was born, humanity was 95 per cent illiterate. Since I've been born, the population has doubled and that total population is now 65 per cent literate. That's a gain of 130-fold of the literacy. When humanity is primarily illiterate, it needs leaders to understand and get the information and deal with it. When we are at the point where the majority of humans them-selves are literate, able to get the information, we're in an entirely new relationship to Universe. We are at the point where the integrity of the individual counts and not what the political leadership or the religious leadership says to do. ~ R. Buckminster Fuller

Leave no room for fear and excuses. Be strong in spirit and possess unwavering convictions. Choose to be an optimist and commit to succeed. ~ Archibald Marwizi

Valor in the leader is often an expression of the leader's character, fortitude, grace, vulnerability, openness, and honesty. ~ Catherine Robinson-Walker

High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past. ~ Andy Hargreaves

Great leadership is a reflection of honest service ~ Lazarus Takawira

The principles that guide your decisions as a leader must not be contradictory to your personal values. Your personal values must lay the strong foundation on which you build your leadership tenets. In becoming a principle-centred leader, these leadership values become your guiding principles and lenses for decision making. ~ Archibald Marwizi

For every opinion, there is an equal and opposite opinion. ~ Kent Alan Robinson

Strategy is not really a solo sport – even if you're the CEO. ~ Max McKeown

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