Ems Leadership Quotes

That's the spirit! Forward momentum." Mayhew snorted. "Your forward momentum is going to lead all your followers over a cliff someday." He paused, beginning to grin. "On the way down, you'll convince 'em all they can fly." He stuck his fists in his armpits, and waggled his elbows. "Lead on, my lord. I'm flapping as hard as I can.

He has the power to render us happy or unhappy, to make our service light or burdensome, a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks, in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up; what then? The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.

Miller’s example of humane leadership that does not always go by the book was not lost on me. When they fall down, pick ’em up, dust ’em off, pat ’em on the back, and move ’em on.

The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' – a leader says, 'Let's go!

Praying men are God’s chosen leaders. The distinction between the leaders that God brings to the front to lead and bless His people, and those leaders who owe their position of leadership to a worldly, selfish, unsanctified selection, is this, God’s leaders are pre-eminently men of prayer.

O patrão que se esquece que tem um Senhor no céu fracassa em ser um bom patrão sobre a terra. (pg 176)

Yeah, leadership ain’t yellin’ and screamin’, or standing heroically out in front. Not all of it, anyway. Leadership, at its core, is doing your damnedest to bend over backwards to support and shelter the people working under you. They, in turn, throw their heart and soul into their jobs. “Idiots who have this idea of their subordinates fawning over them just because they work for them rarely have their expectations meet reality. Same goes for those who think they can wring money out of employees like a dishrag. Bites ‘em in the ass more often than not.

… Querer ser o primeiro é amar a nós mesmos. Colocar o próximo em primeiro lugar e estar atento às suas necessidades é amá-lo. Pense em como perdoamos rapidamente as asneiras e absurdos que cometemos. Perdoamos as asneiras e absurdos do próximo com a mesma rapidez? Você não acha que também nos amamos muito mais rapidamente do que amamos os outros?

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt

Hollywood likes to portray SEALs with a shoot ‘em up, almost larger than life persona that capitalizes on brawn and bravado, and unfortunately, that’s the only image of us that much of the public will ever know. What is not shown, however, are the mental capacities and emotional tolerances that we strive to enhance on a daily basis through an organizational model of continuous improvement, shared understanding, humility, and leadership.

Though the concept of empathy originated in an aesthetic sensibility of beauty, Lipps adapted it to the realm of human suffering. Indeed, the English translation, made by 1910, captures this usage from Greek roots: em means “into,” pathos is “suffering”—“into suffering.” Ten years after Lipps, Karl Jaspers made empathy central to psychiatry, a revolutionary idea at the time. (Jaspers divided all mental illness into those conditions with which one could empathize, such as depression and anxiety, and those with which one could not empathize, like schizophrenia.) Jaspers’s insight was ignored by psychoanalysis and behaviorism, the two strongest currents of twentieth-century psychology. In recent years, though, empathy has made a comeback, sparked from an unexpected quarter for such a touchy-feely concept: neuroscience.

The moment they hear what she says, her subordinates erupt together in laughter and whistles; none of them looks worried. They all wear cheerful smiles that say, Let's give it to 'em! Well, even if it's nothing more than pre-sortie bravado, I'm glad they have wherewithal to put on a brave face. It means they trust me enough not to complain in my presence. A superior who isn't trusted by their subordinates is liable to be dismissed for lack of management ability, so this is key.