#lead

In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States. ↗

— Jack Welch

#i #leader #lifetime #mitt #mitt romney

I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems. ↗

— Jack Welch

#big deal #deal #first #going #got

A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat. ↗

— Allen West

#atlanta #born #city #combat #commission

I think we have to understand that when tolerance becomes a one-way street, it will lead to cultural suicide. We should not allow the Muslim Brotherhood or associated groups to be influencing our national security strategy. ↗

— Allen West

#associated #becomes #brotherhood #cultural #groups

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves. ↗

— J. Paul Getty

#deserves #employees #employer #generally #gets

I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#anything #best #both #campfire #cast

The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else. ↗

— William Westmoreland

#everybody #everybody else #lead #like #lives

Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#bosses #capacity #choose #control #destroyed

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#backwards #became #century #command #companion

For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#contribute #decisions #familiar #good #good work