A leader is the one who speaks last and acts first.

Simon Sinek

When you go out into the workplace, you should be looking for things that you can do for your people there. You’ve got no business in the workplace if you’re just there to be there. You’ve got to be looking for changes you can make for the benefit of the people who are working there.

Taiichi Ohno

There are three kinds of leaders. Those that tell you what to do. Those that allow you to do what you want. And Lean leaders that come down to the work and help you figure it out.

John Shook

When you become a leader success is all about growing others.

Jack Welch

You manage things; you lead people.

Admiral Grace Murray Hopper

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Jim Rohn

Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.

Dianne Feinstein

A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.

Leroy Eimes

In the industrial age, leadership was a position. In the knowledge age, leadership is a choice.

Stephen R. Covey

When you rid your organisation of conventional controls, develop meaningful controls derived from your purpose and put these to work where the work is done, people light up. They don’t need servant leaders or coaches, they need leaders who think differently.

John Seddon

The culture of any organization is shaped by the worst behavior the leader is willing to tolerate.

Johanna Rothman

Consciously or unconsciously leaders put in place structures and practices that make sense to them.These structures and practices correspond to their way of dealing with the world and means that organization cannot evolve beyond its leadership's stage of learning and development.

Hermanni Hyytiälä

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

Russel Honore

If serving is below you,
Leadership is beyond you.

- Anonymous

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

Mwai Kibaki

As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.

Warren Bennis

When you rid your organisation of conventional controls, develop meaningful controls derived from your purpose and put these to work where the work is done, people light up. They don’t need servant leaders or coaches, they need leaders who think differently.

John Seddon

A leader is like a farmer who creates an environment for others to grow.

L. David Marquet

When you rid your organisation of conventional controls, develop meaningful controls derived from your purpose and put these to work where the work is done, people light up. They don’t need servant leaders or coaches, they need leaders who think differently.

John Seddon

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Colin Powell

The ageless essence of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths in ways that make a system's weaknesses irrelevant.

Peter F. Drucker

You get the best efforts from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.

Bob Nelson

The role of the director is to create a space where the actresses and actors can become more than they have ever been before, more than they have ever dreamed of being.

Robert Altman

Lean Leaders always challenge the status quo and continuously coach their teams with problem-solving techniques.

Philip Holt

If serving is below you,
Leadership is beyond you.

Anonymous

Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.

Stephen Covey

The very essence of leadership is you have to have a vision.
It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.

Father Theodore Hesburgh

The world of the 1990s and beyond will not belong to 'managers' or those who can make the numbers dance. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders - people who not only have enormous amounts of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Jack Welch

Leadership is the ability to enhance the environment so that everyone is empowered to contribute creatively to solving the problem(s).

Gerald M. Weinberg

When you were made a leader you weren't give a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.

Jack Welch

Leaders who don't listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say.

Andy Stanley

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

Seth Godin

Leaders: your team is full of golden ideas, creativity and ingenuiy. Your job is to mine for gold!

Jonatan Michael Bowman

Real leaders take ownership of the organization’s systemic problems and are “hard on the problems and soft on the people.

Paul Levy

Before you are a leader success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

Jack Welch

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Donald Walters

Geen enkele organisatie kan goed functioneren als het leidinggevend niveau niet functioneert.

Peter Drucker

Leadership requires two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate it.

Simon Sinek

Heersen en dienen, zijn twee kanten van dezelfde medaille. Wie heerst zonder te dienen, wordt een crimineel, wie dient zonder te heersen een lafaard. Alleen als beide ten volle nageleefd worden, is er sprake van gezond leiderschap.

Romano Guardini

De essentie van leiderschap is om meer leiders voort te brengen, niet meer volgers.

Ralph Nader

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

John C. Maxwell

Being a leader is not about you. It's about the people that are on your team and how you can help them be succesful.

Susan Vobejda

Great leaders are willing to sacrificethe numbers to save the people.
Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.

Simon Sinek

Leaders think and talk about solutions.
Followers think and talk about their problems.

Brian Tracy

Leadership is not about being in charge. Leadership is taking care of those in your charge.

Simon Sinek

Leiderschap is het vermogen om anderen te beïnvloeden, te motiveren en in staat te stellen om bij te dragen aan de effectiviteit en het succes van de organisatie van welke ze deel uit maken.

Bernard Bass

Bosses try to fix people.
Leaders fix the environment.

David Marquet

Leaders who don't listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say.

Andy Stanley

When oganizations are built not on implicit mechanisms of fear but on structures and practices that breed trust and responsibility, extraordinary and unexpected things start to happen.

Frederic Laloux

Every leader is a teacher developing the next generation of leaders.

Akio Toyota