Unleashed Leadership Quotes

As Erasmus, the great Renaissance thinker, reminds us, “The best hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth.

Recently, on a call with a company hiring me to teach about leadership, a man said, "Excuse me, Abby, I just need to ensure that what you present is applicable to men, too." I said, "Good question! But only if you've asked every male speaker you;ve hired if his message is applicable to women, too.

Leadership is taking care of yourself and empowering others to do the same. Leadership is not a position to earn, it’s an inherent power to claim. Leadership is the blood that runs through your veins—it’s born in you. It’s not the privilege of a few, it is the right and responsibility of all. Leader is not a title that the world gives to you—it’s an offering that you give to the world.

Unleash the potential that is in another and you unleash the potential that is in you.

A critical element in nearly all effective social movements is leadership. For it is through smart, persistent, and authoritative leaders that a movement generates the appropriate concepts and language that captures the frustration, anger, or fear of the group's members and places responsibility where it is warranted.

There’s no degree or certification for being a badass. You can just choose to be one.

Not that leaders need to be overly “nice”; the emotional art of leadership includes pressing the reality of work demands without unduly upsetting people.

You are not your history. You are the stories you tell yourself.

Humbleness and enthusiasm are two great qualities for effective leadership. By aligning your 114 chakras, you can unleash your inner fire and inspire your team to achieve greatness.

We shall unleash the nihilists and the atheists and we shall provoke a great social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to all nations the effect of absolute atheism; the origins of savagery and of most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the people will be forced to defend themselves against the world minority of the world revolutionaries and will exterminate those destroyers of civilization and the multitudes disillusioned with Christianity whose spirits will be from that moment without direction and leadership and anxious for an ideal, but without knowledge where to send its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer brought finally out into public view. A manifestation which will result from a general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and Atheism; both conquered and exterminated at the same time.

Leadership is volunteering at the local school, speaking encouraging words to a friend, and holding the hand of a dying parent. It’s tying dirty shoelaces and going to therapy and saying to our families and friends: No. We don’t do unkindness here. It’s signing up to run for the school board and it’s driving that single mom’s kid home from practice and it’s creating boundaries that prove to the world that you value yourself. Leadership is taking care of yourself and empowering others to do the same.

It is your life...OWN IT! Your life purpose empowers you and enables you to live life abundantly. Empowerment begins by taking responsibility for your life and being accountable for your actions. Empowerment is the courage to live passionately and purposefully each day

The reason most of your staff are asleep and disengaged, is because you have boring, and bully managers, and no REAL Leaders to inspire and unleash potential.

Appreciating others can be the catalyst that unleashes their greatness.

To change you must want to change, you must be responsible for the change, and then take action to make the change. It is your race to run so you need to choose your road wisely.

No visions are ever rendered to us in the dead of night that we are incapable of pursuing at the break of dawn.

You wouldn't pick up someone else's baggage off the carousel. So why do it in life?

Effective leadership in education is not about moving everyone from one standardized point to the next but moving individuals from their point “A” to their point ”B.

You must unleash initiative rather than suffocate it.

Positive energy is unleashed when leaders give themselves permission to connect and express themselves from the core of who they are. When leaders practice authenticity, creativity, engagement, confidence, and a sense of inner resourcefulness emerge.

Leadership is volunteering at the local school, speaking encouraging words to a friend, and holding the hand of a dying parent.

Great leaders welcome dissenting opinions, as long as they are offered in good will and with an eye toward a solution.

Praise someone today and you’ll unleash their potential forever.

Knowledge in our heads is useless. Its power is unleashed only when it is shared.

You live in this world once. Let your true and authentic YOU get unleashed. The world is desperately waiting your unique brand unchained.

Culture—not vision or strategy—is the most powerful factor in any organization.   Culture—not

Visionary leaders help people to see how their work fits into the big picture, lending people a clear sense not just that what they do matters, but also why.

Breakout success means training your mind to pursue opportunity before the tipping point of evidence, in the interstitial space between intuition and data.

If there’s more than one ‘version’ of you, one of them is lying.

There’s no such thing as “sounding smart”. Smart is either knowing or seeking to know.

To have swagger, your intention has to outweigh your fear.

When you filter your truth through the lens of approval, you only say things you’ve seen approved of in the past.

Swagger requires you to let your guard down. If nothing can get in, then nothing can get out.

When you confess your mess, you invite everyone else to say “ME TOO!” That’s connection.

Stop waiting for someone to tell you it’s OK to be yourself. Swagger needs no permission.

Because I lacked the ability to prioritize correctly and bring focus to my leadership.

Respect, honesty, responsibility, and hope are the language of a great team leader.

You plan to rob the world of its treasures if you decide to die with your potentials unleashed! The world needs your leadership influence; don’t take it raw to the cemetery!

Leaders do not die with their music on their tongues unsung. They provide services that make them unleash their God-given potentials!

What you unleash in others you unleash in yourself.

The true key, if you want to live an unstoppable life, then you need to take 100% control of your life. Stop blaming others for your failures and faults and start accepting responsibility for your life.

The key to unlocking potential is to embrace your highest competitive advantage: you are the only one who has the full story of your life. YOU are the one subject about which there will never be a greater expert in the world.

You may be able to “buy” a person’s back with a paycheck, position, power, or fear, but a human being’s genius, passion, loyalty, and tenacious creativity are volunteered only. The world’s greatest problems will be solved by passionate, unleashed “volunteers.

So often, data is merely insurance against self-delusion. It won’t (and it shouldn’t) provide the green light. In fact, research too often ends up serving as a reason people give up before they start. Don’t let numbers hold you back when you know in your gut that you’re onto something, and don’t be afraid to go digging for the support you know in your heart must be out there somewhere.

Hitler’s style of leadership functioned precisely because of the readiness of all his subordinates to accept his unique standing in the party, and their belief that such eccentricities of behaviour had simply to be taken on board in someone they saw as a political genius. ‘He always needs people who can translate his ideologies into reality so that they can be implemented,’ Pfeffer is reported as stating. Hitler’s way was, in fact, not to hand out streams of orders to shape important political decisions. Where possible, he avoided decisions. Rather, he laid out – often in his diffuse and opinionated fashion – his ideas at length and repeatedly. These provided the general guidelines and direction for policy-making. Others had to interpret from his comments how they thought he wanted them to act and ‘work towards’ his distant objectives. ‘If they could all work in this way,’ Hitler was reported as stating from time to time, ‘if they could all strive with firm, conscious tenacity towards a common, distant goal, then the ultimate goal must one day be achieved. That mistakes will be made is human. It is a pity. But that will be overcome if a common goal is constantly adopted as a guideline.’ This instinctive way of operating, embedded in Hitler’s social-Darwinist approach, not only unleashed ferocious competition among those in the party – later in the state – trying to reach the ‘correct’ interpretation of Hitler’s intentions. It also meant that Hitler, the unchallenged fount of ideological orthodoxy by this time, could always side with those who had come out on top in the relentless struggle going on below him, with those who had best proven that they were following the ‘right guidelines’. And since only Hitler could determine this, his power position was massively enhanced.

leadership is about empowering other people as a result of your presence—and making sure that impact continues into your absence.1 Your job as a leader is to create the conditions for the people around you to become increasingly effective, to help them fully realize their own capacity and power. And not only when you’re in the trenches with them, but also when you’re not around, and even (this is the cleanest test) after you’ve permanently moved on from the team.

Warren Bennis, one of today’s leading thinkers on the art of leadership, spent years studying groundbreaking groups such as the Walt Disney Studios (while Walt was still alive), Xerox PARC, and Lockheed’s Skunk Works. Here are some of the highlights from his study of groups: • Great groups believe they are on a mission from God. Beyond mere financial success, they genuinely believe they will make the world a better place. • Great groups are more optimistic than realistic. They believe they can do what no one else has done before. “And the optimists, even when their good cheer is unwarranted, accomplish more,” says Warren. • Great groups ship. “They are places of action, not think tanks or retreat centers devoted solely to the generation of ideas.” Warren characterized the successful collaborations he studied as “dreams with deadlines.” Part

I was born in 1960. When you are eight or nine years old and you look at the TV set, men are landing on the moon, anything’s possible. And that’s something we should not lose sight of … the inspiration and the permission to dream is huge.

They note that psychopaths have three motivations: thrill-seeking, a pathological desire to win, and the inclination to hurt people. “The ability to get people to follow you is a leadership trait … but being charismatic to the point of manipulating people is a psychopathic trait.

As a business leader, you must also pay it forward and give it backward.

Networking is a deposit in the bank of your future and in your startup. It won’t happen immediately, but if you do it right, you will continue to receive its dividends for years. I, for one, can network with the best of them! You can too.

May your humanity and curiosity be the foundation for collaboration, reciprocity, ans co-elevation!

we define perspective as the leadership team’s view on the key trends in the market and how they intend to be successful as a business based on these views.

recognizing a crisis of declining market shares and financial performance, courting new investors, or acquiring new leadership.

Leadership Law: Sacrifice short-term productivity for long-term positivity.

As a leader, your job isn’t to inspire people. Your job is to create an inspiration platform.

When you keep your sh*t real, it’s your true self that achieves, is acknowledged, and celebrated.

There’s no bad truth. But there is bad timing.

No one has a problem with swearing when you tell them how f*cking awesome they are.

Asking for knowledge is often wiser than having it.

1 Minute Wisdom for greater success: The only way you can unleash more of your God-given potential is to STRETCH. Get comfortable, being uncomfortable - outside of your comfort zone. Comfort Zone = Stagnate zone... Outside of your comfort zone, in the stretch zone, is where ALL the development and self-growth magic happens.

Clout is the influence that God has given to you and to no one else. You are specifically designed to impact the world in a way that no one else can. Discovering your clout is an essential part of unleashing your purpose. You have a specific purpose, a calling, that only you are qualified to fulfill. Your God-given influence defines your purpose. Your purpose establishes your leadership. Your leadership makes a mark on the world.

Leadership is not a position to earn, it’s an inherent power to claim. Leadership is the blood that runs through your veins—it’s born in you. It’s not the privilege of a few, it is the right and responsibility of all. Leader is not a title that the world gives to you—it’s an offering that you give to the world.

We are in the middle of one of the most profound shifts in human history, where the primary work of mankind is moving from the Industrial Age of “control” to the Knowledge Worker Age of “release.” As Albert Einstein said, “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” They certainly won’t be solved by one person; even, and especially, the one “at the top.” Our world’s bright future will be built by people who have discovered that leadership is the enabling art. It is the art of releasing human talent and potential. You may be able to “buy” a person’s back with a paycheck, position, power, or fear, but a human being’s genius, passion, loyalty, and tenacious creativity are volunteered only. The world’s greatest problems will be solved by passionate, unleashed “volunteers.

Connection gives us the grace and grit to unleash our potential and endure the challenge of our daily mess.

Facing this horizon, it is our collective wisdom that will shape AI's impact, melding technology with the depth of human values to unlock a future where progress and ethics walk hand in hand. If we fail to guide this journey thoughtfully, we risk unleashing forces that diverge from our cherished principles. Thus, we stand at a pivotal moment, where our actions today will decide whether AI becomes a beacon of hope or a mirror reflecting our greatest challenges.

The smart guess matters to leaders now more than ever precisely because they face such a deluge of data—often with no clear map of what it portends for the future. As Richard Fairbank, CEO at Capital One, put it, “Finding a visionary strategy you believe as a leader is a very intuitive thing. There are many things a leader can’t predict using data. How do you know what you will need to have in three years? Yet you’ve got to start development now or you won’t have it when you need it. Our company hires brilliant data analysts; we have one of the biggest Oracle databases in the world. But at the end of the day, I find that all the data does is push us out farther on the frontier where it’s uncertain all over again.

The great news: Becoming the leader your company needs to meet the demands of your ever-expanding role can be among the most rewarding efforts of your career. The key word here is effort—you will need a lot.

Most coaching involves identifying weak spots, changing behaviors, and reimagining goals—none of which carries an overlapping, specific industry prerequisite. Coaches with a variety

Learn your coaching type. There are many types of coachable leaders. Before entering a coaching engagement, spend some time determining what type of client you are and ways in which a coach could support you.

The process is simple, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. The process of becoming coachable and, in turn, being coached, is a journey that demands steadfastness, resilience, and flexibility from you—and the reality is, the leader who is ready is the one who will embark on the challenge.

The four tenets within the openness framework require you to be open to change, feedback, action, and accountability.

Coaching is not just about understanding what is important to you and why. Nor does it encourage you to develop skills in a vacuum. Even as you absorb the lessons of coaching, you must put them into practice. By the end of six months, you should be observing concrete, measurable improvements in your performance and your work relationships. Your bosses, colleagues, and reports should begin noticing them, too.

Let out your heat! Unleash your imagination Let the burning fragrance of your unimpeachable imagination sparkle through the morning’s you. At night, let the stoical sweat of your day ease your muscles Relax your feet. You will need them to walk again tomorrow

Loyalty earned is a beautiful thing, but loyalty demanded is toxic.

The larger the organization grows, the greater the amount of energy that needs to be invested in being responsive to people inside and outside the team.

The real test of leadership and influence is when we’re willing to stand behind others and let them shine.

The most powerful features of an organizational culture are trust and respect.

Almost nothing builds trust like a leader’s accepting responsibility, and almost nothing destroys it as quickly as blaming others for one’s mistakes.

We can wait for the system to collapse of its own accord, for the rage of the downtrodden and dispossessed to build, for chaos of some sort to expose and destroy it. But implosion might take a long time. And when it happens, we may find ourselves even more powerless than we are now. They—the hardcore, racist, undereducated, fundamentalist Christian, anit-civil liberties Right—are preparing to step into the breach, to seize power. They can't wait to unleash their venomous hatred on the city-dwelling commie hipster fags they despise. They are armed. They recognize that the system is doomed. They've seen this coming. They're organized and willing to merge their disparate brands of conservatism under a common leadership. Most importantly, they get it. They don't need to be convinced that everything is in play. They're putting it in play.

Beyond the cultural differences that must be bridged in any international effort, combined with factors of national politics, priorities, and values, we continue to grapple with the essential paradox of public health that began our discussion: when the system is working effectively, it is a silent venture and there are relatively few outbreaks of disease. These very successes lead most of us down a complacent path of false confidence, apathy, and assumptions that the endless dance is over. To complicate matters further, microbes themselves are hardly monolithic or permanently settled beings. For every attempt we make to destroy or weaken them, they respond with an equal and opposite force. The goal of both sides is to assume leadership of the evolutionary waltz ever in progress.

We all have sweet spots when triggered, we unleash our potential. Best motivation is when it comes from within. Find your sweet spots and get motivated to accomplish extraordinary things!!!

You don't need to become great 1st to step into your greatness. Have you left your comfort zone and ventured out to unleash your greatness?

Running IT as the digital energizer is about accelerating business performance, unleashing business potential, and nurturing collective creativity.

The key to these successful launches was the involvement of the senior pastor. Whether pastors align their sermons with a purchased “campaign” or create their own, their leadership is significant in recruiting and connecting people into groups. Let’s

will we return to a state of miserable serfs ruled by a wealthy elite of religious and corporate royalty? Or will we take up the mantle of freedom and leadership that science gave us—the commitment to knowledge over the assertions of “but faith, or opinion” that led to the disquieting idea of equality in the face of uncertainty—an idea that became the foundation of democracy and unleashed the modern era?

Desire activates the potential that was coined within you. You cannot unleash your potential without stepping up your desire to succeed...

Don’t jail your imagination. You cannot imagine beyond your desires. You can't unleash your imagination without the SEEDs of desire.

I believe that leadership principles are timeless and apply across all spectrum of life.

As a leader, if you can no longer inspire your people it is time to step aside and let someone else take the lead

All leadership begins from inside a person and must be developed and grown as they grow into emerging and enduring leaders

We need leaders who can meet and adapt to new challenges, build strategic partnerships, build and sustain human capital organizations, and have the courage to act and react to the challenges

Now is the time to reinvent yourself and develop a new plan of action. Now is the time to create new actions and practices that are focused on growth and development in your personal and professional life. Now is the time to unleash your leadership potential and ignite your passion to lead.

Leadership begins inside of you. Leadership is about you, the people you influence and a belief that you can make a difference and have an impact. Leadership starts with a condition of the heart – the desire and passion to make a difference before it moves to the brain to implement a plan to make a difference. It is an inside-out process and is shaped by your values, character, choices, opportunities, experiences and your worldview

circuitry. Studies of neurological patients with damaged prefrontal–limbic circuitry confirm that their cognitive capacities may remain intact, while their emotional intelligence abilities are impaired. 11 This neurological fact clearly separates these competencies from purely cognitive abilities like intelligence, technical knowledge, or business expertise, which reside in the neocortex alone. Biologically speaking, then, the art of resonant leadership interweaves our intellect and our emotions. Of course, leaders need the prerequisite business acumen and thinking skills to be decisive. But if they try to lead solely from intellect, they’ll miss a crucial piece of the equation. Take, for example, the new CEO of a global company who tried to change strategic directions. He failed, and was fired after just one year on the job. “He thought he could

The disparity between the vision and the reality establishes a gap. And what fills that gap is strategy.

Life is a choice. Your choices each day determine what outcomes happen in your life. It is by choice, not by chance, that will determine your life. An Unstoppable Life begins by taking responsibility for your choices.

Greatness is unleashed when you develop faith in the power of your faith.

They often chose the retention model: catch all you can. Often they were not leading by instinct but by tradition. They kept the peace and maintained the status quo but later became frustrated as the church suffered from their indecisive leadership.

The CIO needs to be an enterprise ‘polyglot,’ to master both business language and IT terminology, and beyond.