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Effective Leader Quotes

Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should they be. Effective leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do.
- Warren G Bennis

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
- Stephen Covey

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
- Peter Drucker

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.
- Eric Hoffer

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

Since the war I have stressed altogether five main objectives. The true union of Europe; the union of government with science; the power of government to act rapidly and decisively, subject to parliamentary control; the effective leadership of government to solve the economic problem by use of the wage-price mechanism at the two key-points of the modern industrial world; and a clearly defined purpose for a movement of humanity to ever higher forms.
- Oswald Mosley

I've been a very effective leader in the gay rights movement, though at times I've been controversial.
- Jean Oleary

Democrats' attack on the Republican majority leader is nothing but a coordinated agenda to stop an effective leader from accomplishing the people's business.
- Bill Shuster

Gov. Romney is a proven and effective leader with vast experience in the business world, in the non-profit world and in government. And in every capacity in which he has ever served, he has been effective as a leader.
- Jim Talent

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