175 Posts found for Source: Leader to Leader

One of the realities of corporate life is that there is only so much face time, airtime, meeting time, and thinking time available to those who lead organizations. You can have influence only to the extent that people take time out of their busy days to listen to you and pay attention to your advice. As the author has discovered, there is an art to … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: James E. Lukaszewski | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

In many ways, the Industrial Age has been an age of exploitation—not just of natural resources but of whole peoples.

Content: Quotation | Author: Peter Senge | Source: Leader to Leader | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)

The first and paramount responsibility of anyone who purports to manage is to manage self: one’s own integrity, character, ethics, knowledge, wisdom, temperament, words, and acts. It is a complex, unending, incredibly difficult, oft-shunned task. We spend little time and rarely excel at management of self precisely because it is so much more difficult than prescribing and controlling the behavior of others. However, without management … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Dee Hock | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Personal Development

Leader presumes follower. Follower presumes choice. One who is coerced to the purposes, objectives, or preferences of another is not a follower in any true sense of the word, but an object of manipulation. Nor is the relationship materially altered if both parties voluntarily accept the dominance of one by the other. A true leader cannot be bound to lead. A true follower cannot be … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Dee Hock | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

Words are only secondarily the means by which we communicate; they’re primarily the means by which we think.

Content: Quotation | Author: Dee Hock | Source: Leader to Leader | Subject: Thought

In the deepest sense, distinction between leaders and followers is meaningless. In every moment of life, we are simultaneously leading and following. There is never a time when our knowledge, judgment and wisdom are not more useful and applicable than that of another. There is never a time when the knowledge, judgment and wisdom of another are not more useful and applicable than ours. At … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Dee Hock | Source: Leader to Leader | Subject: Leadership

One cannot speak of leaders who cause organizations to achieve superlative performance, for no one can cause it to happen. Leaders can only recognize and modify conditions which prevent it; perceive and articulate a sense of community, a vision of the future, a body of principle to which people can become passionately committed, then encourage and enable them to discover and bring forth the extraordinary … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Dee Hock | Source: Leader to Leader | Subject: Leadership

There are three categories of people in this world. The first is the individual who wakes up in the morning and goes into the office and proceeds to dream. The second category is the individual who gets up in the morning, goes into the office, and proceeds to work 16 hours a day. The third is the individual who comes into the office, dreams for … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Steve Ross | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

Light is the purest form of knowledge. Having no characteristics itself, it enables others to see.

Content: Quotation | Author: Marshall McLuhan | Source: Leader to Leader | Subject: Knowledge

Ideas invite others to respond with imaginative gusto. Big imaginative ideas succeed by building on two principles. They are democratic (shared by everybody) and demotic (like art, they convince by being suggestive, not merely by making rational sense). By being evocative rather than explicit, they invite participation.

Content: Quotation | Author: Harriet Rubin | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Creativity, Innovation

Facts do not have control of you; your imagination does, and it need have no limits.

Content: Quotation | Author: Harriet Rubin | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Creativity, Innovation

I have found that people who provide great leadership are also deeply interested in a cause or discipline related to their professional arena. A leader in a pharmaceutical firm, for example, might have a passion for reducing suffering. He or she may have watched a parent or loved one suffer, and be motivated by deep emotions, not just intellect. Such leaders also tap deep convictions … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: John P. Kotter | Source: Leader to Leader | Subject: Leadership

Entrepreneurial leaders need to be a little bit deaf and a little bit blind. By definition they’re trying to do something that defies the common view. They have to be inured to skeptics. They have to believe that their vision is true and they can make it happen. But if they are too deaf and too blind they won’t learn from the market or their … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Randy Komisar | Source: Leader to Leader | Subject: Entrepreneurship

There’s nothing wrong with legacy businesses. I wish I had one – a profitable business that generated cash and gave you independence. There is a big problem with legacy thinking. What we need is new, dynamic thinking applied to legacy businesses to bring them into today’s new opportunities.

Content: Quotation | Author: Randy Komisar | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Management

Without a clear vision, an organization be-comes a self-serving bureaucracy. The top managers begin to think “the sheep are there for the benefit of the shepherd.” All the money, recognition, power, and status move up the hierarchy, away from the people closest to the customers, and leadership begins to serve the leaders and not the organization’s larger purpose and goals.

Content: Quotation | Authors: Jesse Stoner, Kenneth H. Blanchard | Source: Leader to Leader | Subject: Organizational Behavior

A vision is compelling when it helps people understand what business they’re really in, provides a picture of the desired future, and offers value guidelines that help people make daily decisions.

Content: Quotation | Authors: Jesse Stoner, Kenneth H. Blanchard | Source: Leader to Leader | Subject: Vision

The best leaders are autonomous and highly independent. Those who are too responsive to the desires of others are likely to be whipsawed by competing interests, too quick to deviate from their course or unwilling to make difficult decisions for fear of offending.

Being true to the person you were created to be means accepting your faults as well as using your strengths. Accepting your shadow … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Bill George | Source: Leader to Leader | Subject: Leadership

Here’s a test of your current level of influence in your organization. Do people hold up meetings, waiting for you to arrive to make important contributions or interpretations of current events? Do people remember what you say and perhaps quote you in other places and venues? Do people tell your stories and share your lessons as though those stories belong to them? Do people learn … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: James E. Lukaszewski | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

Most arguments, misunderstandings, confusion, and aggressive behavior are triggered by negative words, phrases, and attitudes. In situations of confrontation and controversy, at least one side of the argument needs the negativity of the other to continue operating effectively and pushing the argument forward. Eliminate that negative energy, and progress can actually be made, or a more peaceful resolution can be sought.

Content: Quotation | Author: James E. Lukaszewski | Source: Leader to Leader | Subject: Communication

It’s crucial to understand just how powerful this concept [focusing on outcomes] is. Fundamentally, it recognizes that everyone owns yesterday, last week, last month, and last year, from their own point of reference. That ownership is permanent. Even given a limitless amount of discussion, the past will remain as it was, owned by those who were there.

But no one owns the future—the next 15 minutes, … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: James E. Lukaszewski | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Communication, Negotiation