Leader At Heart Gifts

Edmund II

'Let's just say that I'm in a mood of cautious optimism.'

'I hope you're not threatened by powerful women, because you're fired.'

Businesswoman Empowerment

How leaders fail

"He's not really much of a leader...he just has a lot of followers."

Business meeting, CEO is dressed strangely as he asks: 'Any questions?'

"I can motivate everyone except myself."

A disgruntled employee chain-sawes hois boss's desk in two.Boss says:'Alright Smith, I'll stop referring to the employees as 'oopsy daisies'.'

"Hmmm ... that's interesting. Now, what about ideas that don't suck - do you have any of those?"

"The president demands that staff take responsibility for failures, and the multi-trillion deficit is down to YOU!"

"Serendipity is not a strategy."

Feedback should be sought for genuine reasons, not because you want compliments. . .

'Same here, we have a female C.E.O., too.'

'I give this one about three months...'

'I have been hearing some disturbing comments about you, Parker, some of your employees think you're a nice guy!'

"Do you have a minute, Bob? I'd like to speak with you about the concept of 'leadership'."

'Need I remind you who's boss here?'

Barack Obama's To Do list.

'There's too many of us... I'm going to start forming a 'W'.'

'I delegate, then I follow up.'

Senior Partner works at a desk, sign on wall behind her says 'Ms. Davis senior partner - formerly: 'Hey You'.

Someone needs to tell him that having Churchillian leadership skills requires more than a 10'' havana

"The GOOD news is that 94 people want to attend the leadership training, the bad news is that 64 of them want to change the venue, 56 the time and 45 want to be course leader."

Stop saying 'You're the boss' I KNOW I'm the boss!

'...And for the low visibility positions we can bring people on board who can, you know...do things.'

The little engine that could delegate.

'I tried that approach once, but my employees seized the carrots and attacked me with sticks.'

Stand-up comic/ceo: 'A funny thing happened on the way to the board meeting...'

'I like to greet the new team members myself.'

'When will I be old enough to have my own people?'

"Leadership ISN'T just about trying to be BETTER than everyone else!"

Wrong leadership.

'This is impressive, Roberts, but I'm not sure that it qualifies as work-place leadership.'

'146 days of leadership without any negative press.'