Quotes

"We strongly contend that most organizations are tapping only a fraction of the potential of their employees. We believe that people can rise to much higher levels of performance if the organizations creates the proper climate."

"You will hear some people say that leadership development is something that organizations invest in for the long run, and that no one should expect an immediate payoff. We take exactly the opposite stances You should be able to see results right away. If you do not see results relatively quickly, we doubt you ever will."

"Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths. The key to developing great leadership is to build strengths."

"The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born - that there is a genetic factor to leadership. Myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born." -- Warren G. Bennis

"Extraordinary leaders... consistently achieve results that far exceed those of the good leaders." -- John H. Zenger and Joseph Folkman

"If better is possible, good is not enough." -- Unknown

"Leadership cannot be delegated to others." -- John H. Zenger and Joseph Folkman

"Leadership behaviors are all knit together, much like the complex network of the human brain. There is an unbelievable interdependence between them." -- John H. Zen gar and Joseph Folkman

"Everything about great leadership radiates from character." -- Dave Ulrich

“Some people grin and bear it. Others smile and change it.” -- Unknown

"If we treat people as they are, we make them worse, but if we treat them as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.” -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Leaders who aren't getting results aren't truly leading." -- David Ulrich, Jack Zenger, and Norm Smallwood

“The real fault is to have faults and not try to mend them.” -- Confucius

“Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse.” -- African proverb

“There is no such thing as working on only one leadership quality or attribute. When you improve one, you will invariably be improving several others.” -- John H. Zenger and Joseph Folkman

"The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.” -- Agha Hasan Ahedi

“There are times when a man should be content with what he has, but never with what he is.” -- William George Jordan