Leadership Explorer Gifts

Dynamic decision makers - Will probably be back in an hour or so.

King Solomon's Pollster.

'It's a real conundrum. Not sure if I should open it, or beat it.'

"I'm just worried that I've let myself become a follower."

"This is a merit-based organization! Can't you see I’ve hired the very best and most qualified yes-men money can buy?"

Businesswoman Empowerment

How leaders fail

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

"I can motivate everyone except myself."

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

"But can't I be feared and loved?"

"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. . .

'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'."

'I delegate, then I follow up.'

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."

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

'Or you can rent by the week...'

The little engine that could delegate.

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

'I'm interested in your job opening, so I'll have my agent give you a ring!'

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

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

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

"The team needs LEADERSHIP, anyone have a view on that?"

"Remember, Man of good Sense not here to do work on your behalf. Man of good Sense only here to help you on strategic level until you wise enough to overcome recession."

'....and that's our CEO. He's trying to find a corporate direction.'

"If we're a team, the manager should take the heat!"

"He's got great leadership skills. Wherever he's taking us, it's got to be better than where we've been."

'It's really lonely at the top of a dot.com company.'

'A good leader can lead them to water, but a great leader can also make them drink.'