Leadership Development Programs Quotes

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

You can't move up in the staircase of leadership unless you are emotionally intelligent. ~ Amit Ray

People's problems are like onions - they come in layers. Only after the outside layers are peeled off do they get down to the core problem. Sometimes people know what the real problem is but are afraid to start there; more often they are not even aware of what is underneath. When a person starts out talking to you about some bothersome problem, you generally hear only the 'presenting problem.' Active Listening effectively facilitates the helpee to move through the presenting problem and finally get down to the core problem. ~ Dr. Thomas Gordon

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

We are constantly evolving as we are interacting with the world. Mindfulness and growth mindset drives our evolution faster and on right tracks. ~ Amit Ray

ReThink Real Success: Keeping your word to others and never lying to yourself ~ Tony Dovale

Leaders who leadershift must be like water. They have to be fluid. Water finds a way, then makes a way. ~ John C. Maxwell

Leadership is anytime you seek to influence the thinking, behavior, or development of others. ~ Ken Blanchard

When leaders acquire the skills that enable them to release the productive potential and tap the collective capabilities of the group, who knows what positive results will be achieved? Some of them may move mountains. ~ Thomas Gordon

Rethink success: Few people will ever discover that the most important business they will ever run.. is their life! ~ Tony Dovale

You feed the requisite substance through personal development efforts and position yourself strategically to allow the forces around you to create the path for your relevance and significance. You are not lifted by air, but by the substance inside you hitting the springboard of opportunity. ~ Archibald Marwizi

Recognizing and accepting both the responsibilities and the opportunities leadership offers you is a significant step in your development as a leader. ~ Kevin Eikenberry

Conquer yourself; the world is you! ~ Raheel Farooq

The fundamental characteristic that enables hidden leadership to bloom is demonstrating integrity. ~ Scott K. Edinger

The point of criticism is to build you as a leader and a dimension to reflect. ~ Unarine Ramaru

In their groundbreaking book, Tribal Leadership, management consultants Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright lay out the five stages of tribal development, which they formulated after conducting extensive research on small to midsize organizations. ~ Phil Jackson

The problem with your company is not the economy, it is not the lack of opportunity, it is not your team. The problem is you. That is the bad news. The good news is, if you're the problem, you're also the solution. You're the one person you can change the easiest. You can decide to grow. Grow your abilities, your character, your education, and your capacity. You can decide who you want to be and get about the business of becoming that person. ~ Dave Ramsey

We never have as great an opportunity to show self-comfort as when others around us aren't. Hint: Don't be a jerk because someone else is. Praise the behaviors in others that you most want to flourish. ~ Kare Anderson

Never put your business in the hands of one person or a select few. People leave. People die. People forget. ~ Liz Weber

Leaders should know how fast time runs and how faster they can beat it. Poor leaders run slowly till time overtakes them. ~ Israelmore Ayivor

Too often when people think of their journey into leadership, they envision a career path. What they should be thinking about is their own leadership development! ~ John C. Maxwell

Never let your Enemies become your Advocates." by A. K. Hasan ~ A.K. Hasan

He who cannot swim should neither chase the dolphins nor play with sharks. For him disaster awaits like sunrise. ~ J. Loren Norris

Where your flesh is in front, your future is behind. ~ Paul Enenche

Don't work to hard on appearing to be right, but on being right ~ Yuri Van Der Sluis

Don't beg for treasure; create it for yourself. Don't beg for positions; build one for yourself. ~ Israelmore Ayivor

Coachable people seek out those who speak truth to them, even if it is a painful truth, because it protects them and it makes them a better person and leader. ~ Gary Rohrmayer

Real leadership is not seeking the applause from followers; real leadership is applauding the followers who become leaders. ~ Onyi Anyado

A boss in essence is every woman willing to try, push, succeed, fail but ultimately do the work in her lifescape to make her mark on the world the way she wants to draw it. ~ Jaha Knight

The spotlight does not change a person, it simply reveals what one has mastered in the darkness ~ Lazarus Takawira

If your Product or Service be the Backbone of the Organisation; Production and Operations be the Brain; Business Development and Marketing is considered as the Heart of the Organisation. For a Healthy and Prospering Company both Heart and Brain are Vital and Inseparable. ~ Ashu Gaur

A good manager will always have the big picture in mind and guide the employees through a series of small targets in order to achieve overall success. ~ Abhishek Ratna

I was greatly inspired by the Utopian Tamanend Ideals of St. Tammany; the only Native American Saint. St. Tammany continues to inspire great leaders to this day and started the original Peace Movement together with William Penn. Society of St. Tammany(Tammany Hall) ran NYC and world politics up until the 1950s in his name. ~ John Lennon

The children are the future, so, let's tell them about tomorrow's hope rather than yesterday's despair. ~ Onyi Anyado

There is nothing worse for a young convert than to be thrust into leadership without mentoring and ongoing coaching because the devil relishes these vulnerable souls. ~ Gary Rohrmayer

This state of affairs, which bodes ill for the future, causes Us great distress and anguish. But We cherish this hope: that distrust and selfishness among nations will eventually be overcome by a stronger desire for mutual collaboration and a heightened sense of solidarity. We hope that the developing nations will take advantage of their geographical proximity to one another to organize on a broader territorial base and to pool their efforts for the development of a given region. We hope that they will draw up joint programs, coordinate investment funds wisely, divide production quotas fairly, and exercise management over the marketing of these products. We also hope that multilateral and broad international associations will undertake the necessary work of organization to find ways of helping needy nations, so that these nations may escape from the fetters now binding them; so that they themselves may discover the road to cultural and social progress, while remaining faithful to the native genius of their land. ~ Pope Paul VI

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to lead.
- Mary Kay Ash ~ Mary Kay Ash

The ability to stay calm and focused in the midst of change is what distinguishes great leaders from those just collecting a paycheck. ~ Todd Stocker

I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program. ~ Wendy Kopp

Self-leadership always precedes team leadership. ~ Michael Hyatt

Great leadership is a reflection of honest service ~ Lazarus Takawira

He was not ill-fitted to be the head and representative of a community which owed its origin and progress, and its present state of development, not to the impulses of youth, but to the stern and tempered energies of manhood and the sombre sagacity of age; accomplishing so much, precisely because it imagined and hoped so little. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

There's no doubt West Point impacted who I am ... It has an enormous emphasis, not only on military aspects, but character development. Whether it's the honor code, or the interactions you have, both with the cadet leadership and the academy leadership, every place you are is a character test. ~ Mike Pompeo

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

All leadership begins from inside a person and must be developed and grown as they grow into emerging and enduring leaders ~ Thomas Narofsky

He might be a genius, but that did not make him a leader ~ Kirsten Beyer

If you want to know more about someone, look at their results. ~ Jennifer Ho-Dougatz

When we simplify, we are attending to our minds. Clear
minds lead to creativity, vision, health, and productivity. ~ Angela Lynne Craig

A leadership development plan has to address these three phases: Identifying emerging leaders Investing in the development of emerging leaders Entrusting responsibility to emerging leaders ~ Bill Hybels

Emotional intelligence is the foundation of leadership. It balances flexibility with toughness, vision with passion, compassion with justice. ~ Amit Ray

I believe that we have reached a stage in life in the economic development of Africa where moving forward is perilous, moving backwards is cowardice and standing still is suicidal but we must persevere because winners do not quit and quitter never win. ~ Patrick L.O. Lumumba

Be the start of something that is good, revolutionary and powerful. Everything after that is a bonus! ~ Carlos Wallace

One cannot lead well until one learns to follow well. ~ Jacqueline Patricks

Trying to influence another person without first establishing a relationship is like trying to boil water outside of a kettle. Trust, like the kettle, is the vessel in which all things work together to generate powerful action ~ Denis G. McLaughlin