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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

I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation.


Margaret J. Wheatley


#assume #context #dangerous #feels #given

Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.


Margaret J. Wheatley


#command #control #leadership #military #most

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.


George Will


#among #away #gain #get #inflict

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.


Mao Zedong


#central #contradiction #dominant #each #historical

We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there.


Wilson Greatbatch


#best #control #exemplified #exerting #going

The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.


Andrew Greeley


#church #dry #half #ice #instead

I've developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness, for its immense commitment to research and development in this field, and for its leadership in developing hybrids which others are now following.


Maurice Strong


#commitment #developed #developing #development #environmental

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.


Vaclav Havel


#because #between #both #determined #divided

Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.


Christie Hefner


#being #believe #big #ceo #having






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