Leadership Quotes from You

Nervous but excited! One week away from the official pre-order campaign for my book through New Degree Press! I want to take this opportunity to thank all of you from this community who have been on this book journey with me. Thank you for your support for my blog for the last five years and I look forward to your support for the book. I thought I would share some selected leadership quotes from comments on my blog, or quotes from interview of leaders for my book, or quotes through my leadership survey. It is your active engagements make my weekly blog and the book project rewarding and enriching. Thank you!

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Alex Maluf Bastos: "… view other leaders as inspiration, but not a model to be followed or mimicked." 

Robert Best: "Effectively managing and leading through uncertainty is surely a top-tier skill in complex adaptive systems. … For the leader, stay focused, but not on the tasks but rather the mission and vision and assess what adaptations are necessary, or how to communicate to the team what remains unchanged independent of the circumstances."

Dan Brady: "Empowerment behavior really starts when we are children and our parents teach and encourage us to act in best interests of ourselves and others, and take responsibility for our actions."

Clotilde Bouaoud: "I asked myself every single day since I started my business, and I believe everybody should ask themselves as well. How can I make today exciting work? It is really engaging."

Julie Browne: "People who've had the rug pulled out from under them and are putting themselves back together with missing parts find that a byproduct of that process is discovering who they really are."

Jennie Byrne: "Many of us have limited self-awareness of why we do what we do. So business model can nudge people to do things in a good way or bad way. When the business model is aligned with the behaviors, you want, it works fine. When they don’t line up, it doesn’t work at all."

Marisol Capellan: "I do not think you can be an effective leader if you do not care about the people that you are responsible for."

Arif Cekic: "We often find ourselves in a world where there is a constant conflict between what is (reality) and what it should be (illusion). Then, what dictates how we live our lives and how much of this conflict can be contributed to nature (individual) vs. nurture (governing systems)?"

Phillip Dearing: "If I could give a speech and motivate 200 other people to work 5-10% harder, that would get far more done than I could ever do myself."

Patricia Delgado-Pena: "For the Latinos, there is a cultural script that leads to our leadership characteristics and inform our decision making."

Beth Ferris: "When you “own it” you accept all of it - the good, the bad, and the ugly from beginning to end. Owning the good is easy and doesn’t present many opportunities to learn. It’s usually in “the bad and the ugly” that we learn and earn and evolve!"

Rose Hall: "Power worth having is cultivated by developing the strengths you already possess and learning how to amplify to your advantage."                   

Jenny Happas: "Humility has many perks, one of them is high self awareness and the ability to seek and learn from other's expertise."   

Phillip Hah: "I really believe in leaders who are able to bring people together based on a common cause, something that is important."

Keith Hartsfield: "Here is how I would characterize most leadership training programs. They are really given the people in the program context for the business, how to drive outcomes, and it’s about management, not leadership."

Janice Louise Horne: "Leadership development is a lifelong journey and one we all need to commit to particularly during this time of worldwide change." 

Purushottam Jadhav: "Leadership doesn't mean that you should have a team to lead, leadership means your approach and attitude towards what you do."

Ananya Jain: "Next time you think that you can’t solve a problem, I want you to think that you are not stuck. You don’t have to to think outside of the box. You are in control of the box."

Gary A Johnson: "Self discovery must be at the heart of every great leader."

Beverly P. Jones: "Accepting yourself as you are gives confidence, whereas scrambling to keep up with the leadership role produces a sense of continual tension."

Charles W. “Chuck” Jones III: "Leadership is a gift. You have the opportunity to help others grow and achieve their best self."

Srini Karra: "While growing up in Southern India, whenever I visited a temple, the sight of a huge elephant tied up with a small rope always amazed me! On the other side, seeing elephants pulling tons of wooden logs, causing mayhem in tens of acres of sugarcane fields, kept me perplexed how they can be restrained with a tiny rope at the temple. Later I realized the elephant is the potential in oneself and the tiny rope is the imaginary constraints that one constantly experiences which makes them ‘powerless’."

Mike Kashani: "Self-discovery is an ongoing process of stripping away that which is unimportant, reviewing our core values, and seeking to live in greater alignment with these inner truths."

Tim Lynch: "Military obviously has comment and control which is necessary. But men and women on the ground have got to have decentralized control and decision making authority." 

Marie Martin: "It has never taken a title for me to lead. I lead because I’m an example that people want to follow."

Scott McEntyre: "Transition from being an individual contributor to being a leader goes from focusing on me and what I do to how to help people develop and do their jobs."

Gary Kaplan: "Project centric leadership is the best option for leadership development."

Kate Mei Yeu Lam: "Visualize the intent, rather than hear the words."

Yiying Lu: "Diversity definitely matters but I am also very interested in finding commonality so that we can all related to each other."

Johnson Magama: "In our Zimbabwean Shona culture we have the word Hochekoche . It means inter-connectedness or symbiosis. It has the notion that as humans we have a web which connects us culturally, spiritually and socially."

Arne Olaf “Velaphi” Meyer: "Low multilingual literacy, especially intercultural multilingualism, is a massive void and hindrance to deep and tangible understanding to grasp "the other”."

Imran Nasrullah: "3A’s for empowerment: accountability, authority, autonomy."

David Olivencia: "In order to successfully influence, you have to really understand the person or group and understand what inspire them. Secondly, you have to have a compelling vision of where you want to take them. In addition, you have to communicate it right."

Deepti Pahwa: "Many people who are stuck at the middle management and lack the empathy for senior leaders. By which I mean that they do not understand what are the bigger goals of the organization."

Jason Patent: "I have always been attracted to organizations that are mission driven."

Matt Poepsel: "People are looking for permission to think of themselves as leaders. I will give you the permission and ordain you as a leader. Now can you get over that and get to work on your leadership?"

Mosa Rahimi: "Success has two aspects: personal success and professional success. I have achieved some personal successes but in the end of the day, I need to help others to succeed."

Ricardo Rossello: "I thought that my actions were going to speak for me but really, words sometimes speak louder than actions."

Laurence Smith: "You can not teach people about digital transformation and the thing we realized at the Bank was that the only this is going to work is through a series of experiences where people get to work it out themselves and come to their own realization."

Jeremy Suard: "Start up experience is very similar to my Special Operation experience in the military, we have to take the time to understand the exact competences and capabilities needed when we are on the fields."

Christopher Symons: My leadership story is one of survival, study, and inspiration. It has truly been a lifelong endeavor. There is no light switch for leadership … rather it has been a learned, principled and applied effort both personally and professionally. 

Ilya Tabakh: "My biggest disappointment as a technologist is that the best technologies don't necessarily win."

Steve Tang: "You have to believe you belong, even though you are different! Otherwise you will always be an outsider."

Sebastian Thalanany: "Owning one’s endeavor, is a step towards self-actualization, aligned with self-awareness that yields curiosity, continuous learning, and understanding, along an evolving journey of the servant, where leadership is implicit."

Anna Villa: "… to become a leader is a mix between mindset, training, humility and determination."

Martina Wagner: "To become authentic leaders the question who we are and how we come across to others never ends. There is so much to discover and so much to let go which is not ours; the conditioning that distorts and stands in the way of unfolding our real leadership potential."

Kelly Wu: "Before exploring the world, first explore ourselves as individuals."

Jane HJ Zhang: "Leadership is reflected and practiced in our daily thoughts, words and behaviors, whether when we are alone, in our home or workplace."

Exciting News About My Leadership Book:

The Odyssey of Self-Discovery: On Becoming A Leader

• Exciting News No 1: Six days left before my book is going to officially available for pre-order through New Degree Press on July 29! For those who signed up on my website for book update, you will receive a direct email about the book pre-order campaign. In addition to the book itself, you will have opportunity to be part of the book journey through being part of my book community, selecting final book title, vote on book cover design, being an early reader, being acknowledged in the book, attending book launch event, and much much more.
• Exciting News No 2. As part of the leadership book project, I am going to develop a photography e-book with the selected quotes including those shared in this newsletter. The photo book is going to be made available exclusively for those who participate in the presale campaign of The Odyssey of Self-Discovery: On Becoming A Leader.
• Exciting News No 3: I have received preliminary interests for my book to be translated and published in both Chinese and Arabic.
• Exciting News No 4: The five minutes leadership survey has exceeded my original goal of 500 responses and now at 568! The survey will stay open and please continue your active participation which will provide valuable insights to this community. 

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