ReLaunch Quotes

“The leader steps into an organization in its darkest hour and says, “Friends, you only thought this was your darkest hour. In fact, this is your greatest opportunity. Let me show you why that’s true.” Note”
― Mark Rutland, ReLaunch How to Stage an Organizational Comeback

“In your position as leader, your actions are amplified; it’s as if you are talking through a bullhorn every time you communicate with your employees. They hear your criticism more loudly than you mean it, and they hear your praise and thanks more loudly than it sounds to you. Use your bullhorn wisely.”
― Mark Rutland, ReLaunch How to Stage an Organizational Comeback

“Respecting the Past, Envisioning the Future, Seeing the Current Reality”
― Mark Rutland, ReLaunch How to Stage an Organizational Comeback

“leadership, and particularly turnaround leadership, is about defining a dream and tethering all aspects of the organization to it.”
― Mark Rutland, ReLaunch How to Stage an Organizational Comeback

“Even in a desperate turnaround situation, if you shift your market radically and suddenly, you may lose the market you have before you can get a new one.”
― Mark Rutland, ReLaunch How to Stage an Organizational Comeback

“To align message with market is simply to communicate a message that resonates with your market.”
― Mark Rutland, ReLaunch How to Stage an Organizational Comeback

“Try to be all things to all people, and you may just wind up being nothing much to hardly anyone.”
― Mark Rutland, ReLaunch How to Stage an Organizational Comeback

“If we begin to fear chaos and tighten down the controls too much, we’ll have order but no creativity and, well, no life.”
― Mark Rutland, ReLaunch How to Stage an Organizational Comeback

“One of the reasons you can’t learn everything you need to know about leadership from a seminar or a book is that leadership is, ultimately, an art.”
― Mark Rutland, ReLaunch How to Stage an Organizational Comeback

“The great leaders learn to rely on God to sustain them when nothing of this world can. And this, too, is the price—and the privilege—of leadership. Oh,”
― Mark Rutland, ReLaunch How to Stage an Organizational Comeback