Fierce Leadership Quotes
Quotes to Guide Your Reading
"When you think of a fierce conversation, think authenticity, integrity, collaboration. Think execution muscle, innovation, emotional capital. Think collaboration with colleagues and customers."
"If you want to become a great leader, gain the capacity to connect with your colleagues and customers at a deep level or lower your aim."
"Creating real impetus for change requires extraordinarily compelling feedback that is clear, insightful, well thought out, specific, and delivered face to face by someone who has observed us in action long enough and thoughtfully enough to tell us something about ourselves that gets our full attention."
"No one I know wishes to be unremarkable, impersonal, faceless, or unknown - and it would be difficult to argue that anonymity enriches relationships or strengthens connection with others."
"The formal language of feedback (satisfactory, meets expectations, exceeds expectations) is uninspiring and demotivating. The colorless language of anonymous feedback with its numbers, ratings, and boxes to check is soul killing."
"We get what we tolerate."
"Nine out of ten executives who derail do so because they lack emotional competencies. The three primary derailers are difficulty handling change, not being able to work well in a team, and poor interpersonal relationships."
"Lacking authenticity, there is no connection."
"What matters anywhere in your organization, matters everywhere in your organization."
"Weak leaders want agreement. Fierce leaders want to know the truth."
"In a culture of legislated optimism, conclusions are reached at the point when everyone stops thinking which is often short of brilliant."
"The fact is that no one can mandate accountability for another person. The only person I can hold accountable is myself."
“I have not yet witnessed a spontaneous recovery from incompetence.”
"When you think of a fierce conversation, think authenticity, integrity, collaboration. Think execution muscle, innovation, emotional capital. Think collaboration with colleagues and customers."
"If you want to become a great leader, gain the capacity to connect with your colleagues and customers at a deep level or lower your aim."
"Creating real impetus for change requires extraordinarily compelling feedback that is clear, insightful, well thought out, specific, and delivered face to face by someone who has observed us in action long enough and thoughtfully enough to tell us something about ourselves that gets our full attention."
"No one I know wishes to be unremarkable, impersonal, faceless, or unknown - and it would be difficult to argue that anonymity enriches relationships or strengthens connection with others."
"The formal language of feedback (satisfactory, meets expectations, exceeds expectations) is uninspiring and demotivating. The colorless language of anonymous feedback with its numbers, ratings, and boxes to check is soul killing."
"We get what we tolerate."
"Nine out of ten executives who derail do so because they lack emotional competencies. The three primary derailers are difficulty handling change, not being able to work well in a team, and poor interpersonal relationships."
"Lacking authenticity, there is no connection."
"What matters anywhere in your organization, matters everywhere in your organization."
"Weak leaders want agreement. Fierce leaders want to know the truth."
"In a culture of legislated optimism, conclusions are reached at the point when everyone stops thinking which is often short of brilliant."
"The fact is that no one can mandate accountability for another person. The only person I can hold accountable is myself."
“I have not yet witnessed a spontaneous recovery from incompetence.”
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