Leaders build and sustain advantage. Strategy sustains leaders.
We have a model that measures a leader's strategic capability.
- The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
Henry Kissinger - The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
Eric Hoffer - The very essence of leadership is its purpose. And the purpose of leadership is to accomplish a task. That is what leadership does–and what it does is more important than what it is or how it works.
Colonel Dandridge Malone - Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Proverbs 29:18 - Lead and inspire people. Don't try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead.
Ross Perot - People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
Theodore Roosevelt - All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
John Kenneth Galbraith - To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.
Harry Truman - The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on.
Walter Lippman - Leadership is action, not position.
Donald H. McGannon - The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
Warren Bennis - The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.
Theodore Hesburgh - The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt - A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte - Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter F. Drucker - Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Colin Powell - No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.
Andrew Carnegie - Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower - Make sure you're not just waiting for someone else to fix things, or hoping that things will improve. Figure out what's going on and make a plan to improve things.
Kenneth W. Thomas - Management is the equivalent of déjà vu (seen this before), whereas leadership is the equivalent of vu jade (never seen this before).
Keith Grint - Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers - Any organization will be only as successful as those at the bottom are willing to make it.
General Bill Creech - No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.
Peter Drucker - Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
Sam Walton - Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Gen. George S. Patton - It is necessary for us to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.
Admiral Hyman G. Rickover - True leadership must have follower-ship. Management styles can vary, but even an autocrat needs people who believe and simply don't follow from fear.
James Robinson III - The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill - A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique.
Michael Porter - All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.
Sun Tzu - Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there; they cause change. They motivate and inspire others to go in the right direction and they, along with everyone else, sacrifice to get there.
John Kotter - Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
Sun Tzu - You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
Charles de Gaulle - If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.
Ralph Merkle - Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.
Pete Johnson - Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances.
Sun Tzu - Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.
Miyamoto Musashi - There is always a better strategy than the one you have; you just haven't thought of it yet.
Sir Brian Pitman - What do you want to achieve or avoid? The answers to this question are objectives. How will you go about achieving your desire results? The answer to this you can call strategy.
William Rothschild - What's the use of running if you are not on the right road.
Anonymous - Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer - Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain - One of the things that is most important for a company is to be very clear about their strategy, so investors get to self-select as to whether or not that's the right strategy for them.
Jeff Bezos - It is well known that "problem avoidance" is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place.
Edward de Bono - Before you journey, observe the wind carefully, detect its direction, and then follow it. You will get to your destination twice as fast with half the effort.
Chin-Ning Chu - Bringing together the right information with the right people will dramatically improve a company's ability to develop and act on strategic business opportunities.
Bill Gates - A man does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards.
Nelson Mandela - Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
Peter Drucker - Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter Drucker - Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.
Peter Drucker
Your company may have developed a strategy for building and sustaining advantage using a traditional framework or it may have been pushed into a strategy by market conditions or operating considerations. Your strategy may not be explicit but you have one.
Do the leaders in your company use your strategy effectively? Do they understand how strategy can make them better leaders? We can measure the capability of your leaders in matters of strategy and having measured it, we can improve it.
Developing leaders by developing their strategic capability is what LeadingStrategically is all about.
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