Quotes about Leadership

Trust is just one of five behaviors that cohesive teams must establish to build a healthy organization.

Now imagine if I were to ask a room full of executives which they enjoy more: meetings or movies? They would probably think I was joking. And yet, meetings should be more interesting than movies because they have more inherent potential for passion and engagement than movies do.

Wanting to be popular with your direct reports instead of holding them accountable.

As difficult as it is to build a cohesive team, it is not complicated. In fact, keeping it simple is critical

humble self- confidence.

The key to managing this challenge, of course, is to identify a reasonable number of issues that will have the greatest possible impact on the success of your organization, and then spend most of your time thinking about, talking about, and working on those issues.

You see, I don't understand why everyone thinks sports is the only way to learn about teamwork. I never played sports much, even as a kid. But I was in a band in high school and college, and I think I figured out the team thing from that.

I have found that most leaders spend the majority of their time and energy making their organizations smarter, with relatively little effort directed toward making them healthier.

Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.

See, management is an everyday thing. Strategy and financial reporting and planning are not.

Yeah, in my last company we called it 'disagree and commit.' You can argue about something and disagree, but still commit to it as though everyone originally bought into the decision completely.

identify one particular insight from their profile that they feel highlights a weakness that they would like to address for the good of the team.