Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
Interpretation
Good business leaders are responsible for crafting and pursuing a clear vision for their organization.
This quote emphasizes the key responsibilities of effective business leaders. They not only need to develop a clear and inspiring vision for the future but also must communicate it effectively, commit fully to it with passion, and pursue its realization with tenacity. Strong leadership is depicted as a blend of creativity, communication, dedication, and perseverance to achieve goals.
In practice
This quote can be used in a leadership workshop to inspire future leaders.
You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
I wanted to change the rules of engagement, asking for more- from fewer. I was insisting that we had to have only the best people...If you wanted excellence, at a minimum, the ambience had to reflect excellence.
A leader's role is not to control people or stay on top of things, but rather to guide, energize and excite.
Control your own destiny or someone else will.
The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don't like to use the word efficiency. It's creativity. It's a belief that every person counts.
An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.
Teamwork does not come naturally. Let's face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn't one of them.
The King is only fond of words, and cannot translate them into deeds.
Future generations will judge us _x000D_ not by what we say, but what we do.
When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.
Being a woman in control of a company - even a small private company, as ours was then - was so singular and surprising in those days that I necessarily stood out. In 1963, and for the first several years of my working life, my situation was certainly unique.
When I was15 years old, I couldn't look at the NFL and look on TV and say, 'Boy, there's a head coach, African American. That's something I'd like to do.'
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