Leadership Coaching

Leadership coaching represents a high proportion of our coaching work, therefore you may appreciate a selection of our favorite leadership quotes.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs

I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don’t think that’s quite it; it’s more like jazz. There is more improvisation.
Warren Bennis

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
Nelson Mandela

“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”
Jack Welch

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter Drucker

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Sandra Carey

The best example of leadership is leadership by example.
Jerry McClain

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

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
Warren Bennis
 
Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead.
Ross Perot

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

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you.
Max DePree

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

The real leader has no need to lead – he is content to point the way.
Henry Miller

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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

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

Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.
Mary D. Poole

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
Ray Kroc

To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.
Harry Truman

Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Harold R. McAlindon

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Stephen R. Covey

A leader’s role is to raise people’s aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.
David R. Gergen

Leadership is action, not position.
Donald H. McGannon

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.
Albert Einstein

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
John Maxwell

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams

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

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
Rosalynn Carter

Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.
Rosabeth Moss Kantor

Good leaders must first become good servants.
Robert Greenleaf

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
Kenneth Blanchard

Most important, leaders can conceive and articulate goals that lift people out of their petty preoccupations and unite them in pursuit of objectives worthy of their best efforts.
John Gardner

eadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.
Edwin H. Friedman

A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
John F. Kennedy

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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