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"I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed."

Margaret J. Wheatley on Leadership

More quotes about Leadership

  • "If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right."

    Henry Ford on Leadership

  • "A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."

    Martin Luther King, Jr. on Leadership

  • "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 on Leadership

  • "A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves."

    Lao Tzu on Leadership

  • "Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership."

    Colin Powell on Leadership

More quotes by Margaret J. Wheatley

  • "In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together."

  • "When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans."

  • "I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas."

  • "The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control."

  • "Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place."

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