Leadership Development Quotes

In order to sustain the integrity of the organization, a business must dedicate time and resources to education, leadership development, and personnel development. Don't focus on the product. Focus on the team.

The more seriously you take your growth, the more seriously your people will take you.

Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.

Failing forward is the ability to get back up after you've been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction.

I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.

There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

The Leadership Training Institute of America is a cultural think tank providing training and opportunity in leadership development and cultural dynamics.

Leadership development is a lifetime journey, not a quick trip.

Great leaders encourage leadership development. By openly developing themselves

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

Leadership development is about helping people grow, and if I can get people as individuals growing, then I've got a company that grows.

I'll bet most of the companies that are in life-or-death battles got into that kind of trouble because they didn't pay enough attention to developing their leaders.

Too often when people think of their journey into leadership, they envision a career path. What they should be thinking about is their own leadership development!

Your leadership development strategy is perfectly designed to produce the caliber of leader you currently have.

The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless... someone's got to make a wake up call.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born - that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

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

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

The coaching process is unique in how it accomplishes leadership development. The coach works not by providing answers per se but by asking questions through which the leader gains new insights and takes new actions.

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Leaders aren't born they are made.

Leaders are not born, they're made.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.