Quotes about Leadership

Good decisions don't so much need consensus as they need commitment.

Delegators love to pull people into meetings, too. In fact, meetings are a delegator's best friend. That's where he gets to seem important. Meanwhile, everyone else who attends is pulled away from getting real work done.

People will respect you more if you are open, honest, public, and responsive during a crisis. Don't hide behind spin or try to keep your bad news on the down low. You

An owner unknowingly scattering people's attention is a common cause of the question "Why's everyone working so much but nothing's getting done?

It begins with this idea: Your company is a product. Yes, the things you make are products (or services), but your company is the thing that makes those things. That's why your company should be your best product.

You can't credibly promote the virtues of reasonable hours, plentiful rest, and a healthy lifestyle to employees if you're doing the opposite as the boss.

Questions bring options, decrees burn them.

When you treat people like children, you get children's work. Yet that's exactly how a lot of companies and managers treat their employees.

As a manager, you have to accept the fact that people will make mistakes, but not intentionally, and that mistakes are the price of learning and self-sufficiency.

If you still want people in the office every day, change that requirement to every afternoon instead. Then let your troops have their mornings to themselves.

The bottom line is that you shouldn't hire people you don't trust, or work for bosses who don't trust you.

When you treat people like children, you get children's work. Yet that's exactly how a lot of companies and managers treat their employees. Employees need to ask permission before they can do anything. They need to get approval for every tiny expenditure.