Leadership
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By empowering others, a leader does not decrease his power, instead he may increase it�especially if the whole organization performs better.
Men and Women of the Corporation (1997)
The most effective leader is the one who satisfies the psychological needs of his followers.
Ogilvy on Advertising (1983)
A chairman who never wanders about his agency becomes a hermit, out of touch with his staff.
Principles of Management (1968)
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
The learning person looks forward to failure or mistakes. The worst problem in leadership is basically early success.
Quoted in Guide to the Management Gurus (1998)
Reflective back talk increases a leader's ability to make good decisions.
On Becoming a Leader (1989)
I'd always rather err on the side of openness. But there's a difference between optimum and maximum openness, and fixing that boundary is a judgment call. The art of leadership is knowing how much information you're going to pass on.
Interview, Strategy + Business (1997)
What job is worth the enormous psychic cost of following a leader who values loyalty in the narrowest sense.
On Becoming a Leader (1989)
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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