Leadership Styles Quotes

Here’s what you need to know most about leadership: Lead your own life first. The only thing in this world that will dependably happen from the top down is the digging of your grave.

Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act decisively without needing to know why.

Most managers have plenty of emotional commitment to give to their jobs. If they can be convinced it’s safe and sensible to give it.

When your intuition is strong, follow it.

What first separates a leader from a normal human being? A leader knows who they are as a human being.

Values are deeply held personal beliefs that form your own priority code for living.

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.

I strongly believe that leadership is an art, not a science. I've learned that leadership can be innate or it can be learned. However, I don't believe anyone was truly born to be a great leader. Great leaders are formed over a long period of time through a series of opportunities and experiences. Without opportunities, even the greatest natural leader among us may never become known for great leadership.

It’s impossible for a company to get what it wants most if managers have to make a choice between their own values and company priorities.

Success for Managers means: I want to be in healthy relationships. I want a real connection with people I spend so much time with.

The heart of a company’s performance is hardwired to the hearts of its managers.

The first step to solving any problem is to accept one’s own accountability for creating it.

People don’t follow you because you are nice, they follow you because they believe the place you are taking them is better than the place they are.

The leaders and followers of the Harlem Renaissance were every bit as intent on using Black culture to help make the United States a more functional democracy as they were on employing Black culture to 'vindicate' Black people.

To integrate one’s experiences around a coherent and enduring sense of self lies at the core of creating a user’s guide to life.

Why live my personal values at work? This is an excellent question to ask. If your attorneys are planning an insanity defense.

Do you think your people struggle with being true to themselves? Do their values match up with their work?