Quotes about Leadership

You can't make a difference without making waves, and some people in the boat won't like it. So be it. Rock the boat anyway.

Going all in is following in the footsteps of Jesus wherever they may lead us

Don't just go out and do what Dick Eastman or your spiritual hero did. That's a spiritual cop-out. Copycat spirituality is short lived.

There is a theory in organizational development called appreciative inquiry that I subscribe to as a leader and a parent. Instead of exclusively focusing on what's wrong and trying to fix it, you identify what's right and try to replicate it. Appreciative inquiry is playing to people's strengths. It's catching people doing things right. It's celebrating what you want to see more of. And it's bragging about people behind their backs.

One of the mistakes we make as parents and as leaders is this: we do everything within our power to create emotional and relational and spiritual biospheres. We avoid conflict. We mitigate risk. We minimize discomfort. We sidestep sacrifice. Then we wonder why people grow to a certain stature and stop. We wonder why leaders fall.

In boardrooms and bedchambers, in lecture halls and marketplaces, God is hardly seen as a player let alone the author, the one who holds in His hand each king's heart and directs it like a watercourse (Proverbs

Never leave the impression that you're the hero or the smartest

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

A great person is one who affects the younger generation by his positivity

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

I'm the decider, and I decide what is best.

Every Harvard class should have one Democrat to rescue it from oblivion.