Heroic Leadership Quotes

“Everyone is a leader, and everyone is leading all the time-sometimes in immediate, dramatic, and obvious ways, more often in subtle, hard-to-measure ways, but leading nonetheless.”
― Chris Lowney, Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed the World

“What distinguishes love-driven leaders from tyrants? "Great affection" coupled with the passion to see others "run at full speed towards perfection." Love-driven leadership is not urging others forward without concern for their aspirations, well-being, or personal needs. Nor is it being the nice-guy manager who overlooks underperformance that could damage a subordinate's long-term prospects. Instead, love-driven leaders hunger to see latent potential blossom and to help it happen. In more prosaic terms, when do children, students, athletes, or employees achieve their full potential? When they're parented, taught, coached, or managed by those who engender trust, provide support and encouragement, uncover potential, and set high standards.”
― Chris Lowney, Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed the World

“Leaders make themselves and others comfortable in a changing world. They eagerly explore new ideas, approaches, and cultures rather than shrink defensively from what lurks around life's next corner. Anchored by nonnegotiable principles and values, they cultivate the "indifference" that allows them to adapt confidently.”
― Chris Lowney, Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed the World

“the abilities to innovate, to remain flexible and adapt constantly, to set ambitious goals, to think globally, to move quickly, to take risks.”
― Chris Lowney, Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed the World

“La medida de su grandeza personal no es tanto lo que encontraron al final del camino sino más bien la fortaleza de carácter que los acompañó a lo largo del mismo: su imaginación, voluntad, perseverancia, valor, recursos y decisión de arrostrar el peligro del fracaso.”
― Chris Lowney, Liderazgo al estilo de los Jesuitas: Las Mejores Prácticas De Una Compañía De 450 Años Que Cambió El Mundo

“A la edad de 38 años y en el atardecer de una vida promedio en el siglo xvi, por su trayectoria Loyola no ofrecía ningún potencial de líder: fracasó en dos carreras, fue arrestado dos veces, tuvo múltiples choques con el Santo Oficio y otras autoridades, y carecía de dinero. No tenía a su haber ninguna realización, ninguna perspectiva clara, nada de seguidores y ningún plan.”
― Chris Lowney, Liderazgo al estilo de los Jesuitas: Las Mejores Prácticas De Una Compañía De 450 Años Que Cambió El Mundo

“Conocimiento de sí mismo, ingenio, amor y heroísmo. No son cuatro técnicas sino cuatro principios que dan forma a una manera de vivir, un modo de proceder. Ningún jesuita triunfó adoptando tres de los principios y prescindiendo del cuarto.”
― Chris Lowney, Liderazgo al estilo de los Jesuitas: Las Mejores Prácticas De Una Compañía De 450 Años Que Cambió El Mundo

“¿Cómo crearon los jesuitas la compañía religiosa de más éxito en la historia? ¿Y cómo llegan los individuos a ser líderes hoy? Conociéndose a sí mismos. Innovando para amoldarse a un mundo cambiante. Amando al prójimo. Apuntando muy alto y más lejos.”
― Chris Lowney, Liderazgo al estilo de los Jesuitas: Las Mejores Prácticas De Una Compañía De 450 Años Que Cambió El Mundo

“se mantenían convencidos de que el rendimiento de la más alta calidad se obtenía cuando los individuos y los equipos apuntaban más alto.”
― Chris Lowney, Liderazgo al estilo de los Jesuitas: Las Mejores Prácticas De Una Compañía De 450 Años Que Cambió El Mundo

“Los héroes sacan oro de lo que tienen a mano en lugar de esperar a tener en la mano oportunidades de oro.”
― Chris Lowney, Liderazgo al estilo de los Jesuitas: Las Mejores Prácticas De Una Compañía De 450 Años Que Cambió El Mundo

“Mientras Maquiavelo veía el mundo poblado por embaucadores, miedosos y desagradecidos, los jesuitas lo veían a través de un lente muy distinto: veían a cada persona como un ser dotado de singular talento y dignidad.”
― Chris Lowney, Liderazgo al estilo de los Jesuitas: Las Mejores Prácticas De Una Compañía De 450 Años Que Cambió El Mundo

“The urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.”
― Chris Lowney, Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed the World

“all leadership begins with self-leadership.”
― Chris Lowney, Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed the World

“It was clear that only a handful of banks would emerge as winners in our changing, consolidating industry. And the winners likely would be those whose employees could take risks and innovate, who could work smoothly on teams and motivate colleagues, and who could not only cope with change but also spur change. In short, leadership would separate the winners from the losers.”
― Chris Lowney, Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed the World

“al liderazgo lo definen no solo la magnitud de la oportunidad sino también la calidad de la respuesta.”
― Chris Lowney, Liderazgo al estilo de los Jesuitas: Las Mejores Prácticas De Una Compañía De 450 Años Que Cambió El Mundo

“Los líderes imaginan un futuro inspirador y se esfuerzan por darle forma, en vez de permanecer pasivos a la espera de lo que traiga el futuro. Los héroes sacan oro de lo que tienen a mano en lugar de esperar a tener en la mano oportunidades de oro.”
― Chris Lowney, Liderazgo al estilo de los Jesuitas: Las Mejores Prácticas De Una Compañía De 450 Años Que Cambió El Mundo

“that's what love-driven leaders do. They see further. They move themselves beyond what blocks our vision in order to see what a fairer, more welcoming world might look like. They point the way to a future in which true men and women will enjoy greater chances to reach their potential. And leaders guided by the resolve that "love ought to manifest itself more by deeds than by words" help create that better future.”
― Chris Lowney, Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed the World

“Long before love is a corporate virtue that improves team performance, it is a personal leadership stance. The love-driven leader possesses the vision to see and engage others as they are, not through the cultural filters, prejudices, or narrow-mindedness that diminishes them.”
― Chris Lowney, Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed the World

“That's love-driven leadership: the vision to see each person's talent, potential, and dignity; the courage, passion, and commitment to unlock that potential; and the resulting loyalty and mutual support that energize and unite teams.”
― Chris Lowney, Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed the World

“First. Love ought to manifest itself more by deeds than by words.”
― Chris Lowney, Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed the World

“The measure of their personal greatness is less what they found at journey's end and more the depth of human character that carried them along the way: their imagination, will, perseverance, courage, resourcefulness, and willingness to bear the risk of failure.”
― Chris Lowney, Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed the World

“When Nadal told trainees that for men on a journey, the whole world would become their house, he was encouraging far more than mobility alone. He was pronouncing a fundamentally hopeful, optimistic, adventurous, and even playful outlook. Leaders with a "whole world is our house" attitude eagerly look forward to what lies around life's next bend. Ingenuity rests on the conviction that most problems have solutions, and that imagination, perseverance, and openness to new ideas will uncover them.”
― Chris Lowney, Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed the World

“In other words, speed, innovation, and global focus happen only when lots of delegated authority sits alongside lots of centralized authority.”
― Chris Lowney, Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed the World