Leaders

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"The leadership environment of today can be summarized under three major contexts: commitment, complexity and credibility."

"Just as the economists have painted themselves into a narrowing corner by failing to recognize the limitations and constraints of the free market, so too have students of organizations avoided the nucleus of leadership."

"The problem with many organizations, and especially the ones that are failing, is that they tend to be overmanaged and underled."

"An _essential_ factor in leadership is the capacity to influence and _organize meaning_ for the members of the organization."

"Every organization incorporates four concepts of organization; these are often at odds with one another, or they exist in some strained coherence."

"Leaders with positive self-regard rarely, if ever, have to rely on criticism or negative sanctions, whether they lead a large multinational company, a symphony orchestra, or a football team."

"Perhaps the most impressive and memorable quality of the leaders we studied was the way they responded to failure."

"With a vision, the leader provides the all-important bridge from the present to the future of the organization."

"If there is a spark of genius in the leadership function at all, it must lie in a kind of magic, to assemble a clearly articulated vision of the future that is at once simple, easily understood, clearly desirable, and energizing."

"Leaders are only as powerful as the ideas they can communicate."

"The design and management of social architecture is one of the four pivotal responsibilities of the leader."

"For a successful transformation to be achieved, three things have to happen."

"Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together."

"Organizational positioning refers to the process by which an organization designs, establishes and sustains a viable niche in its external environments."

"Quick Environmental Scanning Technique is a practical method with which a leader can begin to build trust in an organization."

"Learning is the essential fuel for the leader, the source of high-octane energy that keeps up the momentum by continually sparking new understanding, new ideas and new challenges."

"If the leader is seen as an effective learner from the environment, others will emulate that model."

"Leadership stands in the same relationship to empowerment that management does to compliance."

"The gap between management education and the reality of leadership in the workplace is disturbing."

"Leaders will have to be architects and cheerleaders for change?true visionaries who are able to point to destinations that are so desirable and credible that workers will enthusiastically sign on to become partners in making it happen. "