Leadership Nerds Pillows

"Take us to your inclusive leader."

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."

"Leadership is all about knowing who to delegate responsibility for all your mistakes."

"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."

"Does anyone here have a clue what it is we used to get?"

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!'

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

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

"Well what does the GPS say?"

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

'I delegate, then I follow up.'

"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.'

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.'

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

The little engine that could delegate.

'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."

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

"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."

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

"Effective leadership is more than just telling everybody to be like you!"

'We'll also need to do a credit/blame analysis.'