Leadership Lessons Seeker Gifts

'Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some are allowed to work for great men like me.'

"Your education in business and management is impressive, but I'm hesitant to put you in a leadership position now that I see you're a lemming."

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

Businesswoman Empowerment

'I hate leaving work when I feel I could have delegated more.'

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."

"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!"

"What was I thinking?!"

"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!'

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

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

'I delegate, then I follow up.'

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

"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.'

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

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

'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.

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.'

"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."