Quotes about Leadership

Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to the king as the supreme authority,

or to governors as those sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to praise those who do right.

not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock.

I have written to the church about this, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first, will not accept our instruction.

And to the one who overcomes and continues in My work until the end, I will give authority over the nations.

And He has a name written on His robe and on His thigh: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.

I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.

And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons.

organizations learn by making decisions, even bad ones.

there cannot be alignment deeper in the organization, even when employees want to cooperate, if the leaders at the top aren't in lockstep with one another

Leaders who can identify, hire, and cultivate employees who are humble, hungry, and smart will have a serious advantage over those who cannot.

The only way for people to embrace a message is to hear it over a period of time, in a variety of different situations, and preferably from different people. That's why great leaders see themselves as Chief Reminding Officers as much as anything else. Their top two priorities are to set the direction of the organization and then to ensure that people are reminded of it on a regular basis.