Today’s aggressive business climate makes extra demands on corporate leadership as corporations fight to compete on price, quality and standards of service with international competitors. Knowledgeable, intuitive, decisive and responsible leaders capable of instigating change, recognizing and seizing opportunities, and winning the support of the workforce are essential if organizations are to maximize their opportunities for growth and development. In the twenty-first century change has become the only constant and reactive managers are of little use. Proactive and visionary leaders will be the ones to drive organizational change and development. This page aims to provide penetrating insights into the expected qualities of a corporate leader in the current challenging business climate. It presents a bouquet of opposing views on what constitutes successful leadership and in what way organizations can be successfully managed by successful business leaders.
#1
Leadership is the ability to decide what is to be done and then get others to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890-1969, general and thirty-fourth President of the United States
#2
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter F. Drucker, American Management Guru
#3
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Publilius Syrus ~100 BC
#4
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
Jesse Jackson 1941-, Civil rights leader with an exceptional drive and empathy for the oppressed
#5
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
Washington Irving 1783-1859, American author
#1
What you think is the top, is only a step.
Seneca 4BC-65AC, Roman writer and moralist
#2
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Stephen Covey, American leadership consultant and writer
#3
I don't want any "yes-men" around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.
Samuel Goldwyn 1882-1974, American (Polish-born) movie producer
#4
There are two tragedies in a man`s life. One is not having reached one`s goal and the other is having reached it.
Friedrich Nietzsche 1894-1900, German philosopher, known as the father of nihilism
#5
I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821, Emperor of France, One of the greatest military leaders and a risk taking gambler
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