“The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.”
Ken Blanchard

“A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless … someone’s got to make a wake up call.”
Warren Bennis

“The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.”
Theodore M. Hesburgh

“I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a “transformer” in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.”
Stephen Covey

“There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what’s happening in the non-digital world.”
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.”
- Agha Hasan Abed

“Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.”
Woodrow Wilson

One day, a man approached JP Morgan, held up an envelope, and said, “Sir, in my hand I hold a guaranteed formula for success, which I will gladly sell to you for $25,000.”
“Sir,” JP Morgan replied, “I do not know what is in the envelope. However, if you show me and I like it, I give you my word as a gentleman that I will pay you what you ask.”
The man agreed to the terms and handed over the envelope. JP Morgan opened it, and extracted a single sheet of …

“The best strategy for building a competitive organization is to help individuals become more of who they are.”
-Marcus Buckingham, “Now, Discover Your Strengths”

“Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”
Margaret Mead