Leadership Skills Enthusiast Prints

'We only have a few rules around here, but we really enforce them.'

"You like to take credit for other people's successes, and blame others for your mistakes. Woodly, you have management potential!"

"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward MY vision!"

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!'

"I was just going to say, 'Well, I don't make the rules.' But, of course, I do make the rules."

"I don't like getting bogged down in details. I'm more of a big-picture guy."

How leaders fail

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

"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. . .

'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.'

JOIN THE BOY SCOUTS HERE!, ''Trustworthy, friendly, loyal, helpful, kind, courteous, brave, thrifty, obedient and cheerful' -- This is going to look GREAT on my resume!'

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

Barack Obama's To Do list.

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

'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."

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

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

'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.'

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."

'We had no contingency plan for things going right.'

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

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

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