Develop Your Leadership Skills Quotes

“Communication is the sister of leadership”
― John Adair, Develop Your Leadership Skills

“Effective leaders treat individuals differently but equally”
― John Adair, Develop Your Leadership Skills

“praise and recognition based upon performance are the oxygen of the human spirit”
― John Adair, Develop Your Leadership Skills

“People expect their Leaders to help them to achieve the common task. to build the synergy of teamwork and to respond to individuals and meet their needs”
― John Adair, Develop Your Leadership Skills

“Perhaps one day they will add about you as their leader, "And you made a difference" That is the true reward of Leadership”
― John Adair, Develop Your Leadership Skills

“A manager will take six months to get to know his staff, but they will take only six days to get to know him”
― John Adair, Develop Your Leadership Skills

“The price of excellence in teamwork is eternal vigilance”
― John Adair, Develop Your Leadership Skills

“The more that people share decisions affecting their working life, the more they are motivated to carry them out”
― John Adair, Develop Your Leadership Skills

“Instinctively, a common feeling exists that "United we stand, divided we fall", that good relationship, desirable in themselves, are also an essential means towards the shared end.”
― John Adair, Develop Your Leadership Skills

“integrity means both personal wholeness and adherence to values outside yourself - especially goodness and truth”
― John Adair, Develop Your Leadership Skills

“You cannot be a military leader without physical courage. But there are Plenty of soldiers with physical courage who are not leaders”
― John Adair, Develop Your Leadership Skills

“Success is often to be found at the edge of failure”
― John Adair, Develop Your Leadership Skills

“Humans are not machines, and some of their energy during the day will go into discussions or activities unrelated to the common task.
Within reason, this "time wasting" is acceptable, but it can become a problem in a team that does not have a really positive attitude to the common task”
― John Adair, Develop Your Leadership Skills

“Leadership is essentially an other-centred activity not self centred one”
― John Adair, Develop Your Leadership Skills

“Work groups and organization come into being because there is a task to be done that is too big for one person”
― John Adair, Develop Your Leadership Skills

“There is a useful distinction between good leaders and leaders of good”
― John Adair, Develop Your Leadership Skills

“Developing self-confidence is always the preliminary to becoming a leader. but don't let it become overconfidence, the first station on the track leading to arrogance”
― John Adair, Develop Your Leadership Skills

“All groups and Organisation are unique”
― John Adair, Develop Your Leadership Skills

“A good manager is now by definition a leader. Equally, a good leader will also be a manger”
― John Adair, Develop Your Leadership Skills