Effective Leadership Quotes

“Work/life balance is not about escaping work. It’s about living exactly the way you want to when you’re at work.”
― Stan Slap

“The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.”
― Bill Hybels, Axiom: Powerful Leadership Proverbs

“The real power of effective leadership is maximizing other people’s potential which inevitably demands also ensuring that they get the credit. When our ego won’t let us build another person up, when everything has to build us up, then the effectiveness of the organization reverts to depending instead on how good we are in the technical aspects of what we do. And we have stopped leading and inspiring others to great heights.”
― John Dickson, Humilitas: A Lost Key to Life, Love, and Leadership

“Profitability. Growth. Quality. Exceeding customer expectations. These are not examples of values. These are examples of corporate strategies being sold to you as values.”
― Stan Slap

“True leaders live their values everywhere, not just in the workplace.”
― Stan Slap

“Values are deeply held personal beliefs that form your own priority code for living.”
― Stan Slap

“Values are the individual biases that allow you to decide which actions are true for you alone.”
― Stan Slap

“Careful now: even a financially rewarding, intellectually stimulating work environment isn’t the same as living your own values.”
― Stan Slap

“It’s impossible for a company to get what it wants most if managers have to make a choice between their own values and company priorities.”
― Stan Slap

“A manager’s emotional commitment is the ultimate trigger for their discretionary effort, worth more than financial, intellectual & physical commitment combined.”
― Stan Slap

“Management controls performance in people because it impacts skills; it’s a matter of monitoring, analyzing and directing.”
― Stan Slap

“Leadership creates performance in people because it impacts willingness; it’s a matter of modeling, inspiring, and reinforcing.”
― Stan Slap

“Any expert will tell you that if you want emotionally committed relationships then people must be allowed to be true to who they are.”
― Stan Slap

“Companies should be the best possible place to practice fulfillment, to live out values and to realize deep connectivity and purpose.”
― Stan Slap

“When you’re not on your own agenda, you’re prey to the agenda of others.”
― Stan Slap

“When you don’t know what true for you, everyone else has unusual influence.”
― Stan Slap

“Why live my personal values at work? This is an excellent question to ask. If your attorneys are planning an insanity defense.”
― Stan Slap

“This is your one and only precious life. Somebody’s going to decide how it’s going to be lived and that person had better be you.”
― Stan Slap

“The high quality of a company’s customer experience rarely has anything to do with the high price of their product.”
― Stan Slap

“To integrate one’s experiences around a coherent and enduring sense of self lies at the core of creating a user’s guide to life.”
― Stan Slap

“Leaders are people who know exactly who they are. They know exactly where they want to go. They’re hell-bent on getting there.”
― Stan Slap

“Leaders make a lot of mistakes but they admit those mistakes to themselves and change because of them.”
― Stan Slap

“Managers know what they want most: to be allowed to achieve success by leveraging who they are, not by compromising it.”
― Stan Slap

“Most managers have plenty of emotional commitment to give to their jobs. If they can be convinced it’s safe and sensible to give it.”
― Stan Slap

“Emotional commitment is a personal choice. Managers understand this even if their companies don’t.”
― Stan Slap

“A manager’s emotional commitment is worth more than their financial, intellectual and physical commitment combined.”
― Stan Slap

“What managers want most from companies they stop themselves from getting.

What companies want most from managers they stop them from giving.”
― Stan Slap

“Emotional commitment means unchecked, unvarnished devotion to the company and its success; any legendary organizational performance is the result of emotionally committed managers.”
― Stan Slap

“What companies want most from their managers is what they most stop their managers from giving. What managers want most from their jobs is what they most stop themselves from getting.”
― Stan Slap

“Providing the ultimate solution to work/life balance: not escaping from work but living the way you want to at work.”
― Stan Slap