Management & Leadership Quotes

For most of us, remembering the detail of what we’ve heard and learnt and what behavior, attitudes and thinking works best in different situations, can be a challenge.

A way of overcoming this is to anchor and ground our knowledge, experience and beliefs with either aural or visual imagery. This can provide a sense of meaning and context for who we are, how we work, and what we aspire to. Just a few of my favorites from over the years are:


Don’t tell me how hard you’ve worked, tell me what you’ve achieved!

John Adair

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

J F Kennedy

Winners are the people who make a habit of doing the things losers find uncomfortable.

Ed Foreman

The ideal organization and the one with the best chance of success, is the one in which everyone from the Chairman to the newest recruit on the shop floor, knows what the organization is trying to do. Underpinned by a deep and factual understanding of why and how, it is trying to do it…

anonymous

Don’t limit your challenges, challenge your limits.

anonymous

Leaders deliver extraordinary results by engaging their people’s passion, capability and commitment to the business.

anonymous

Leaders go beyond the leadership of the team they ‘own’ through using the leadership platform to provide direction and exert influence on the business as a whole.

anonymous

You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.

It’s a judgement about what you have (or haven’t) done.

Ford / Lawrence

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

Michelangelo

The measure of who we are, is what we do with what we have.

Vince Lombardi

Kevin Lawrence is the Managing Director of Odyssey Group, management training and leadership development experts.

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