Strategic Leadership Quotes

We need leaders who can meet and adapt to new challenges, build strategic partnerships, build and sustain human capital organizations, and have the courage to act and react to the challenges ~ Thomas Narofsky

• Plan in decades
• Think in years
• Work in months
• Count in days
• Live in the moment ~ @koqoo

Women have more to offer the church than mad decorating skills or craft nights. I look around: I see women who can offer strategic leadership, wisdom, counsel, and teaching. ~ Sarah Bessey

Today and every day, live and lead the memory you want to leave behind. ~ Jon Mertz

Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things. ~ Akio Morita

There is nothing more common than to find considerations of supply affecting the strategic lines of a campaign and a war. ~ Carl Von Clausewitz

And if God has given you a lot of ability, I believe you should be held to a higher level of expectation. ~ Tony Dungy

Reliance in its purest, highest, form is a code to live by: That every life matters. Every future matters. Taking care of each other matters. And our shared purpose is to create amazing futures for our children's children. ~ Bill Jensen

Part of leadership is preparing those who follow to someday go on ahead without you. ~ Rev. Kellen Roggenbuck

To instill the values for the culture was and is the responsibility of the leadership, and staff alignment was critical to its success. It started with both board and staff. They realized that they needed to share the same value system that says, "I am the equipper, not the doer." If not, there were going to be immense roadblocks to effectively mobilizing people for ministry. ~ Sue Mallory

Being silent in the right moment is a skill. ~ Alin Sav

Business is the most important institution on the planet for furthering human flourishing. ~ Paul Gibbons

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful. ~ John Wooden

leadership is the medium through which one expresses one's deepest values. ~ Leonard Doohan

Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing. ~ Peter F. Drucker

The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion. ~ Jean-Claude Killy

Successful people keep moving, even when they are discouraged and have made mistakes. ~ David Cottrell

If leadership is about anything, it's about leading. Not leading people back to where they already are, because they don't need that. They're already there. ~ Robert Reich

Paine knew that class tensions existed. He understood that revolutions stirred up resentments. In Common Sense, he adopted an ominous tone at a key point in his argument, warning readers that the time was ripe to declare independence and form a stable government. Or else. In the current state of things, "the mind of the multitude is left at random," he wrote, and "the property of no man is secure." Therefore, if the leadership class did not seize hold of the narrative, the broad appeal to political independence would be supplanted by an incendiary call for social leveling. ~ Nancy Isenberg

Groups tend to believe their work is harder, more strategic, or just more valuable while underestimating those contributions from other groups. ~ Steven Sinofsky

Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack. ~ Jose Ortega Y Gasset

A hardness to change reveals a hardness of heart. ~ Gary Rohrmayer

People who cease to grow can't inspire others. Leadership begins with challenging
oneself. ~ Daisaku Ikeda

Leaders who aren't conduits are either dams of dry. ~ Johnathan Key

I think that's just one type of leadership, which is the type I have: the need to find a new way and take responsibility for other people. ~ Harry West

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. ~ Harry S. Truman

In the short term, there is scant room for dreaming, for one must choose between being taken seriously and being visionary. In the long term, however, leadership cannot afford to overlook the wisdom of dreams, even the wisdom of playful dreaming. Vision that bounds higher than the barriers that confine us often spring from earnest playfulness. ~ John Carver

At its core, I believe leadership is about instilling confidence in others ~ Howard Schultz

I had to stop running. I had to turn and face my life head on. It wasn't enough being like everybody else; I had to be the best, and I was going to show everyone what I was truly made of. I was done with being a terrified princess, constantly waiting to be saved. I was going to be a queen, and, like Vivienne said, I had better start behaving like one. - (Aurora Firedrake) ~ Farah Oomerbhoy

Disappointment and adversity can be catalysts for greatness. There's something particularly exciting about being the hunter, as opposed to the hunted. And that can make for powerful energy. ~ Cathy Freeman

Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes. ~ Lance Secretan

Today's Arab crisis is not one of money, men, morale, land or resources ... The real crisis is rather one of leadership, management and perennial egotism. ~ Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

For within the very structure of family life, in families that do or did embrace the male religions, are the almost invisibly accepted social customs and life patterns that reflect the one-time strict adherence to the biblical scriptures. Attitudes towards double-standard premarital virginity, double-standard marital fidelity, the sexual autonomy of women, illegitimacy, abortion, contraception, rape, childbirth, the importance of marriage and children to women, the responsibilities and role of women in marriage, women as sex objects, the sexual identification of passivity and aggressiveness, the roles of women and men in work or social situations, women who express their ideas, female leadership, the intellectual activities of women, the economic activities and needs of women and the automatic assumption of the male as breadwinner and protector have all become so deeply ingrained that feelings and values concerning these subjects are often regarded, by both women and men, as natural tendencies or even human instinct. ~ Merlin Stone

People of conscience in our leadership in Washington have been scared off by the right and the fossil fuel lobbies. They won't even use the term "sustainability" or "climate change" in an energy bill, which is ludicrous on its face. It completely ignores the elephant in the room that we're all dealing with. The average American doesn't even believe climate change is real, they think it's all a hoax. ~ James Cameron

A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow. ~ John C. Maxwell

Unless you challenge yourself, you cannot grow. Mindful leadership is the art of growing by challenging the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual imposed limits on the self. ~ Amit Ray