If you hire the Become the kind Apathy can be overcome Its completely

wrong person of leader that by enthusiasm, and Strive not to

at the top of a incredible what
people would enthusiasm can only be be a success,
company, they follow voluntarily; people can do
can destroy it in aroused by two things: but rather to
even if you had no
first, an ideal, which when theyre
no time at all. title or position. be of value.
Sir Richard Branson,
Brian Tracy
takes the imagination appreciated.
founder of Virgin
by storm, and second, a Albert Einstein
Mogens Nrgaard
A financial analyst once asked me if I was definite intelligible plan
afraid of losing control of our organization. for carrying that ideal
A life spent making
Leadership
is unlocking
I told him Ive never had control and I never into practice. peoples potential
wanted it. If you create an environment where
the people truly participate, you dont need Arnold J. Toynbee
to become better.
Bill Bradley
mistakes is not only
control. They know what needs to be done,
The most dangerous leadership myth
more honorable, but
and they do it. And the more that people I start with the
will devote themselves to your cause on a
is that leaders are born that there is a
genetic factor to leadership. This myth premise that more useful than
the function of
a life spent doing
asserts that people simply either have
voluntary basis, a willing basis, the fewer certain charismatic qualities or not. Thats
leadership is to
hierarchs and control mechanisms you need. nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true.
Herb Kelleher, ex-CEO of Southwest Airlines
Leaders are made rather than born.
Warren Bennis
produce more
leaders, not more nothing.
followers.
Ralph Nader
George Bernard Shaw

Bad leaders May your choices There is a bright

future for complexity,
reflect your hopes, what with one thing

give bad orders. not your fears. always leading to

another.
Nelson Mandela E. B. White

Good leaders The corporate world means nothing unless it improves

the lives of people and the conditions in poor countries.

give good orders. Dr. Haldor Topse

Great leaders
How I wish
You have to honor everyone
failure, because failure had decent

give no orders. is just the negative space

David Marquet,
Former nuclear submarine commander
Semco has no official
structure. It has no
organizational chart. Theres
no business plan or company
strategy, no two-year or five-
year plan, no goal or mission
statement, no long-term
budget. The company often
does not have a fixed CEO.
There are no vice presidents or
chief officers for information
technology or operations.
There are no standards or
practices. Theres no human
resources department. There
are no career plans, no job
descriptions or employee
contracts. No one approves
reports or expense accounts.
Supervision or monitoring of
workers is rare indeed. Most
important, success is not
measured only in profit and
growth.
Ricardo Semler, Semco
work! It is
essential
around success. for human
Randy Nelson, Pixar
dignity.
Pope Francis I
You do not lead by One of the most
thoroughly replicated
hitting people over the findings in the field
Numbers and Id rather have a hole head thats assault, of social psychology
states, the more you
money follow; in my team than an not leadership. reward people for
they do not lead. asshole in my team. Dwight D. Eisenhower doing something,
Dan Gilbert, Dan Jacobs, the more they tend
founder of Quicken Loans Head of Talent at Apple to lose interest in
Given the right circumstances, whatever they had to
from no more than dreams, do to get the reward.
We believe that in order to make the world a better
determination, and the liberty to try, Alfie Kohn
place, you first need to focus on bettering yourself. quite ordinary people consistently do
As we grow, we become better equipped to better extraordinary things.
help our clients and community. Dee Hock, founder of Visa
Treat the enterprise as a community
of engaged members, not a collection
Charlie Kim, founder of Next Jump of free agents. Corporations are
social institutions, which function
best when committed human beings
(not human resources) collaborate
24 great quotes about leading with in relationships based on trust and
respect. Destroy this and the whole
happiness from www.woohooinc.com institution of business collapses.
Henry Mintzberg