Leadership Explorers Gifts

"It's not enough I want to be king of the beasts as well."

"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."

Boy and girl at thier studies

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

'I don't like heights...maybe that's why I've had so many low points in my life.'

"I can motivate everyone except myself."

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

"What was I thinking?!"

"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'."

"C'mon people! All for me and me for me!"

'I delegate, then I follow up.'

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

"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."

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

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

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

The little engine that could delegate.

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

'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."

King Solomon's Pollster.

"I became a mentor because I needed more direction in life."

"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.'

'So, what do you want to be when you grow up: rebel scum or loyal servant of the supreme android republic?'

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