Leadership Lovers Pillows

'You know what I like about being the boss? I can take as long as I like to make a snap decision.'

"Portrait? - what portrait ?"

"Logistically impressive Hodges, but does this qualify you for a leadership role in the company?"

'Kings HAVE to be confrontational!'

"I'm worried about the abbot..."

'Come on, guys, you know what they say: The sour puss never gets the new contract'.'

"It's hard to manage a staff meeting in a company whose employees all have laser pointers."

Angela Merkel's Retirement

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

Businesswoman Empowerment

'You could be a constant inspiration for us to come up with a plan to get a leg up on our competition...you're hired!'

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."

"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!'

'The ultimate sign of success is when no one puts you on hold.'

"He thought this would illustrate the company hierarchy more clearly than the organizational chart."

Barack Obama's To Do list.

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

"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?'

'I delegate, then I follow up.'

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.'

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."

The little engine that could delegate.

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