leadership

“The soundbite that tries to put in a sentence or a phrase the complexity of an actual issue is necessarily misleading and partial, and the more addicted we get to soundbites, and the more hyped up we get by them, then the more simple our leadership will be, as…”

“A leader who feels certain cannot be learning from other people. So the more sure you are as a leader about exactly what's right and what's wrong, exactly where you're going, the less open you will be to hearing that you're wrong until it's too late.”

“A charismatic leader, when he walks into the room, or she walks into the room, makes you feel good about her or him, right? Like, I walk into the room, and I'm a charismatic leader, and you think, wow, and you think about that person. A great leader, I think, …”

“Probably the most important thing is the ability to distance your thought patterns and your emotions from your actions... But it's the idea that you can kind of play the game of life in kind of third person as opposed to first. That is incredibly important.”

“I don't know if someone else can make someone a leader. I don't know if you can teach leadership, but I'm pretty sure you can learn it. And I think that distinction is key. I think it's very arrogant to say that you or I or anyone else could take someone and I…”

“Stop taking care of your career. Start taking care of your people. And if you do that, then they won't let you fail.”

“As a young leader, one of my greatest weaknesses was that I wanted to make everybody happy, and I mistakenly thought that good leaders made everybody happy, and so I was much more concerned on making them happy than I was helping them.”

“Which involves being not so rock-like, but not so, so much humanity that people think, oh my goodness, like, this leader's losing it. Like, this is all this very, very delicate dance, and maybe it was always delicate, but now it's delicate in a supercharged wa…”

“Sometimes we can be so humble, so grateful for what we have, that we forget that we have the right, and in the case of being a leader or a parent, the responsibility of To work toward something better. And so I am an intense gratitudist and lead with gratitude…”

“Leaders can be born, but they are most certainly all made better. You know, I think leadership works off a mastery model.”

“That is also really developmental because it changes the whole mindset. Changes my sense of what I need to be as a leader, as a person dealing with it. It changes my view of others from obstacles to necessary parts of the system.”

“A charismatic leader, when he walks into the room, or she walks into the room, makes you feel good about her or him, right? Like, I walk into the room, and I'm a charismatic leader, and you think, wow, and you think about that person. A great leader, I think, …”

“The more sure you are as a leader about exactly what's right and what's wrong, exactly where you're going, the less open you will be to hearing that you're wrong until it's too late. Whereas a leader with more curiosity, more openness to other people's perspec…”

“And sometimes stepping into that role means that you leave a lot of other things on the side. It means that you don't bring your full self to work. Nobody cares. Nobody wants that. And like you bring your best work self to work and you lead from the front and …”

“I think if you take care of your people, they will take care of the scoreboard. If you focus on the scoreboard, You're gonna fail.”

“I've seen Certain leaders be horrible and get incredible things done. They violate every book ever written about leadership and work a team to complete death and play this Machiavellian game of just when they're about to fire, just about when they're about to …”

“I think we have a problem in this kind of like self-help, personal development world where I think a lot of Let's say like thought leaders and leadership and all, I think they're disconnected from what leaders actually go through.”