Leadership Style Quotes

What about feedback you've received about your leadership style over the years? Years ago, an executive editor of mine said, "You should count the number of times you praise somebody and then double that." Even the toughest, steeliest writer or editor often really wants to be told, "Hey, that was a great piece." Early in my career as a manager, it probably took me a while to realize that everybody wants that. It's just a human need. ~ Anonymous

This is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it once again points out how very important style of leadership, that is the way he does what he does, is to his perception. ~ Robert Teeter

Added pressure and responsibility should not change one's leadership style, it should merely expose that which already exists. ~ Mark W. Boyer

First let's look at a model of Situational Leadership II that shows a combination development level and leadership style. ~ Kenneth H. Blanchard

Bill Clinton was friendly and charming with just about everyone besides Hillary. He always seemed to want to give his company extra time. He was very generous that way. Like him or not, share his political ideas or not, find yourself in the same room with him, and you are hooked. You can't help but like him. But that was not Hillary. She was clearly all business, 24/7. Her private leadership style was based on pure fear and loathing - and I never saw her that turn off. Even in the president's presence, Mrs. Clinton operated at far greater than arm's length - a cheerless grifter always on her scheming way to someone or something else more important than the person directly in front of her. ~ Gary J. Byrne

I think the guys are starting to rally around my leadership style and the way I do things. I've been waiting for this opportunity my whole life. ~ Aaron Rodgers

Find your own authentic leadership style; your own unique way of listening to, helping and engaging with your front line. Challenge the often formidable psychological distance between basement and boardroom. Your people will thank you, and so will your customers. ~ Chris Van Gorder

Whether there are innately female leadership styles ... is not really the right question. It is more important to ask why there has been so little attention paid to women leaders over the years as well as why the styles of leading more often exhibited by women are particularly useful at this critical moment in history. ~ Charlotte Bunch

Leadership is responsibility.
There comes a point when one must make a decision. Are YOU willing to do what it takes to push the right buttons to elevate those around you? If the answer is YES, are you willing to push the right buttons even if it means being perceived as the villain? Here's where the true responsibility of being a leader lies. Sometimes you must prioritize the success of the team ahead of how your own image is perceived. The ability to elevate those around you is more than simply sharing the ball or making teammates feel a certain level of comfort. It's pushing them to find their inner beast, even if they end up resenting you for it at the time.
I'd rather be perceived as a winner than a good teammate. I wish they both went hand in hand all the time but that's just not reality. I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success. Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.
This is my way. It might not be right for YOU but all I can do is share my thoughts. It's on YOU to figure out which leadership style suits you best.
Will check back in with you soon.. Till then ~ Anonymous

American presidential leadership never goes out of style. ~ Monica Crowley

I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing. ~ Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

Depending on the skill and will of the individual, the right leadership style may be coaching, motivating, or directing rather than delegating. A leader has to pick the right style of leadership for each employee, and it is not one-size-fits-all, ~ Thomas Lee

Knowing, glorifying and loving God are difficult to quantify, so we seldom include them in the evaluation process. We are tempted to evaluate goals that are easy to measure but that are much less significant. The final evaluation of leadership and of organizations is to ask, Did our efforts, programs, finances, structures and leadership style bring glory to God? Did these help people to know and love God? Too often we merely ask, Did the organization grow under my leadership? Did the budget increase? Did we plant more churches? Instead we must ask, Did the budget make God glad? Do people in the churches we planted truly love God more deeply? The fact that we will never be able to precisely quantify and evaluate the ultimate purpose must not dissuade us from being passionate about God's glory. The Lord will likely give us glimpses or indications of leadership effectiveness, but most of the critical outcomes will only be known in eternity. ~ James E. Plueddemann

I don't want to over generalize, but I believe that women are typically drawn to leadership styles that focus on consensus building, effective listening and working in teams. That's certainly been my leadership style, and I think it's been very successful. ~ Margaret Hamburg

Nobody thought the direct business model would work. But work it did, and spectacularly. Until it didn't. And therein lies the tale. ~ Heather Simmons

Many a time since have I noticed, in persons of Ginevra Fanshawe's light, careless temperament, and fair, fragile style of beauty, an entire incapacity to endure: they seem to sour in adversity, like small beer in thunder. ~ Charlotte Bronte

Tails from My Puppyhood or, What They Don't Teach You at Obedience School
The tail that wags the dog to bliss
Must put his mouth before his heart.
The simple rule of paw is this:
Show your master he's smart.

The dog intent on happiness
Knows it pays to learn the tricks
Of when to sit and when to piss
And how to accept his master's kiss.

I know the human breath is foul,
But you must let him pet your head.
The dog that turns away its jowls
Will keep his pride but won't be fed.

When he throws you food upon the floor,
Swallow it with a smile.
Smack your lips and beg for more:
Show the bum your style.

When you fetch your master's stick
Drop it gently to his feet.
If you whine, pretend you're sick;
He'll then fetch you more to eat.

I know it's tough to be a hound
And forsake all that you hold dear.
But remember, when he's not around
You can always piss right on his chair. ~ Beryl Dov

What a blessing to live to be missed. ~ Johnny Hunt

It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it. ~ Sammy Hagar

Teamwork and trust trump ego and arrogance in building high performance sustainable successful teams. Rethink your team building ideas ~ Tony Dovale

There's no such thing as trends. There's no such thing as style, even. It's just whatever you feel. ~ Zendaya

It is the obligation of the ruler to continually renew himself in order to renew the people by his example. ~ Confucius

He who thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk. Leadership is getting people to work for you when they are not obligated. ~ Frederick K. C. Price

We'll never solve the problems we don't talk about. ~ Justin Young

I married John Paul because I'm knocked out by his style. Because I love him and respect him and enjoy the transformations that take place as a result of our sharing the same dimensions. ~ Tom Robbins

Patriotism without criticism has no head; criticism without patriotism has no heart. ~ Allen C. Guelzo

Modern women are just bombarded. There's nothing but media telling us we're all supposed to be great cooks, have great style, be great in bed, be the best mothers, speak seven languages, and be able to understand derivatives. And we don't really have women we're modeling after, so we're all looking for how to do this. ~ Jamie Lee Curtis

I realize that as the quarterback, you have to assume some sort of leadership role because you have to talk in the huddle on every play, and you're essentially giving out orders to the team. But in my mind, I have to prove myself on the field before I can start asserting a leadership role. ~ Andrew Luck

The ultimate profit from all of my businesses is to be happy and to make all of the customers happy. ~ Debasish Mridha

When we miss the meaning of a language, we miss the real essence and impact of communication. If we lose the real meaning of a language, we lose the real understanding of a language. Friendship is developed and nurtured through effective communication and that is the great tool that shapes friendship. A good communication, regardless of how short it might be is a great litmus paper that proves who a true friend or false friend is. A good communication does not only trigger the best bond but it also uncovers things in the heart that are hidden from the eyes. Without an effective communication, real friendship and real love between two great people is just like two great mountains with a valley between them. Without communication, we lose what we could have heard from real people. When we miss the meaning of a language, we miss the real essence and impact of communication!!! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

You can minimize your sin. Rationalize your sin. Justify your sin. ~ Johnny Hunt

Presidents, leaders, to be effective have to represent the whole to the parts and to the world outside. They may live in the centre but they must not be the centre. To reinforce the common sense they must be a constant teacher, ever travelling, ever talking, ever listening, the chief missionary of the common cause. ~ Charles Handy

Every solution has a problem. ~ Andy Hargreaves

Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create a really contained story. We wanted to be on a set as much as we could to get the kind of style level we were looking for. ~ Lana Wachowski

Leadership is relationship. ~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

I can only be me. I do what I do, I'm not a jazz player ... I don't play jazz standards, at least not in any recognizable way. It's not my turf but I have plenty of respect for that style of playing. ~ Jorma Kaukonen

What an interesting contrast between us, even just in the consideration of one woman. Your complete disregard for her will ironically be your destruction, while my regard for her will be my triumph over you. ~ T.K. Naliaka

I'm really interested in fashion but at the same time I find it quite competitive. Second-hand stuff leaves you more open to whatever your own personal style is rather than feeling dictated to by shops. ~ Sophie Ellis-Bextor

You live in this world once. Let your true and authentic YOU get unleashed. The world is desperately waiting your unique brand unchained. ~ Assegid Habtewold

Creativity requires the willingness to look stupid. ~ John C. Maxwell

Leaders are called upon to build not to repair. ~ Farshad Asl

Leadership is never given on a silver platter, one has to earn it. ~ Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. ~ John C. Maxwell

But the law of magnetism really is true: who you are is who you attract. ~ John C. Maxwell

I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style. ~ Vera Wang

The mind is like an umbrella. Its most useful when open. ~ Walter Gropius

Leadership has less to do with position than it does with disposition. ~ John C. Maxwell

Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character. ~ Norman Schwarzkopf

You yourself are unique
you have ways of seeing your world that are unlike those of anyone else
so find ways to more faithfully express that, and your style will emerge. ~ David DuChemin

Are decent people in positions of leadership eternally condemned to Calvary? ~ Janusz Korczak

To my mind, you cannot speak about the need for leadership within our communities without being prepared to take on responsibility yourself. It's not enough to point the finger at those who have let us down and to expect others to come forward and fix our problems. Nor can anyone afford to call themselves a leader unless they truly have the interests of our community at heart. Too many people like to think they are leaders and too many are identified by the media as leaders who are not really leaders at all. ~ Jackie Huggins

I think one of the reasons our court system wants to remove The 10 Commandments is because The 10 Commandments reminds us we are sinners. ~ Johnny Hunt

When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style. ~ Otis Blackwell

Balling is balling; it is all just basketball for me and I'm used to playing both games, so it really does not matter if it is international style, American style; it does not matter at all for me. ~ Tony Parker

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination. ~ Rosalyn S. Yalow

The thing we've learned from the last 20 years of counterterrorism is the significant value you get from removing leadership from the battlefield in degrading the organization. ~ Michael Morell

The advice I like to give to drummers is that there's no right or wrong way of playing the drums. I think the drumming community can be very antiquated and very stuck in the past of, like, this Neil Peart style, technical Guitar Center drum video kind of approach. That you need to have played for 15 years before you ever do anything worthwhile. ~ Janet Weiss

What supporters say about their leader
tells men a third about who he is.
What supporters do for their leader
tells men two thirds about who he is.
What supporters give up for their leader
tells men all of who he is. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A thing can be fine on paper but utterly crummy in the field. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

I love these dudes, but I don't know what they're doing with all that facial hair these days. There's a lot of peach fuzz going on. They called me up to go to a Kanye West concert, and I was like 'hold on I'll call Kanye.' So I called him and they got into the show, and I called Kanye later and said, 'Yo did you see my dudes from Panic! at the show?' and he was like 'Nah they mst not have been dressed like they were from the 1700's'. But I back them. They have their own unique style, which is cool. ~ Pete Wentz