Riky Kurniawan

Leadership is an option

Leaders must know where they are going if they expect others to willingly join them on the journey.

Kouzes & Posner, The Leadership Challenge

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Napoleon Bonaparte

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

Mark Twain

Whatever their source, leadership begins with clarity about values what one stands for and the roots of those values are imparted by a sense of family, community, and culture.

Richard Couto

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

Babe Ruth

Do, or do not. There is no try.

Yoda

Leaders who can stay optimistic and upbeat, even under intense pressure, radiate the positive feelings that create resonance. By staying in control of their feelings and impulses, they craft an environment of trust, comforts and fairness. And that self-management has a trickle down effect from the leader.

Daniel Goleman, Primal Leadership

Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Vince Lombardi

One of the most common ways to overcome resistance to change is to educate people about it beforehand. Communication of ideas helps people see the need for and the logic of a change. The education process can involve one-on-one discussions, presentations to groups, or memos and reports.

John P. Kotter

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Henry Ford

A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn’t like the tune.

Anonymous

Good leaders make people feel that they’re at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.

Warren Bennis

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Stephen Covey

Motivation and inspiration energize people, not by pushing them in the right direction as control mechanisms do but by satisfying basic human needs for achievement, a sense of belonging, recognition, self-esteem, a feeling of control over one’s life, and the ability to live up to one’s ideals. Such feelings touch us deeply and elicit a powerful response.

John P. Kotter

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes.

John Erksine, The Complete Life

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

Walter Lippmann

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

Proverbs 29:18

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, we did it ourselves.

Lao Tzu

Challenge is the opportunity for greatness. People do their best when there is an opportunity to change how things currently stand. Maintaining the status quo facilitates mediocrity. Those who embrace this practice do not wish to rest on their laurels. They motivate others to exceed their limits and look for innovative ways to improve the organization.

Kouzes & Posner, The Leadership Challenge

Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present, and keep the promise to posterity.

Harold J. Seymour

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Peter Drucker

A good leader can’t get too far ahead of his followers.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.

Jack Welch

If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That’s all it takes to get people to win football games for you.

Paul Bear Bryant

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Henry Ford

Leaders experiment and take risks, listening to those around them. Those who challenge the process know a good idea when they hear one. Because failure is inherent in risk taking, leaders learn to accept disappointments and move forward.

Kouzes & Posner, The Leadership Challenge

A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.

English Proverb

Leaders go first.

Kouzes & Posner, The Leadership Challenge

I’ve missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot . . . and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Pearl Bailey

Change is inevitable. Progress is optional.

Anonymous

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes — goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Albert Einstein

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

Benjamin Franklin

Leaders encourage others to continue the quest and inspire others through courage and hope. Leaders give heart by visibly recognizing others’ contributions to the common vision. With a thank you note, a smile, an award, and public praise, the leader lets others know how much they mean to the organization.

Kouzes & Posner, The Leadership Challenge

We must become the change we wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Nolan Ryan

The most important thing with communication is to hear what is not being said.

Anonymous

Be like a postage stamp – stick to one thing until you get there.

Josh Billings

Purpose is what gives life meaning.

C.H. Parkhurst

A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.

Mahatma Ghandi

When enthusiasm is inspired by reason; controlled by caution; sound in theory; practical in application; reflects confidence; spreads good cheer; raises morale; inspires associates, arouses loyalty; and laughs at adversity, it is beyond price.

Colman Cox

Dream as if you will live forever, live as if you will die today.

James Dean

Success comes before work only in the dictionary.

Anonymous