Mastering Leadership Quotes

“The structure of our identity determines how we show up as a leader, how we deploy ourselves into circumstances.”
― William A. Adams, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results

“Organizations do not transform—people do.”
― William A. Adams, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results

“Leadership’s primary job is to enhance creative capacity by developing collectively effective leadership.”
― William A. Adams, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results

“Great leadership has more to do with character, courage, and conviction than it does with specific skills or competencies.”
― William A. Adams, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results

“Collective leadership effectiveness drives business performance.”
― William A. Adams, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results

“When direction and meaning are confined to Executive Leadership, value is minimized.”
― Bob Anderson, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results

“Leaders succeed or fail depending on whether or not they clarify role expectations and keep their promises.”
― Bob Anderson, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results

“When we step into positions of leadership, we make a whole set of promises we may not know we are making.”
― Bob Anderson, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results

“When caution prevails, the truth is obscured. Collective effectiveness and intelligence rapidly erode. Performance suffers.”
― Bob Anderson, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results

“Initially, a start-up is dependent upon its founders for vision, leadership, direction, and management. It requires their guidance on a daily basis. As the start-up begins to realize some order of success, or begins to struggle, its future quickly moves beyond the brilliance of its founding leadership. It now requires the capability and capacity of its collective leadership. When present and functioning effectively, collective leadership removes the single point of failure—dependency on the founder—that many start-ups experience and expands the capacity and capability of the organization to lead its growth.”
― Robert J. Anderson, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results

“Developing leaders who can navigate complexity is now a strategic priority—and, if done well, a competitive advantage. Beyond developing competency and capability, we need to develop leaders with courage and compassion, consciousness and character.”
― Robert J. Anderson, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results

“If you want to break through to higher levels of performance, you must allow yourself to be restructured.”
― William A. Adams, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results

“What you hold in your consciousness tends to manifest—the inner game runs the outer game.”
― William A. Adams, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results

“Leadership is a conversation.”
― William A. Adams, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results

“Leaders have the right to expect that others will compassionately recognize them.”
― William A. Adams, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results

“When a Promise of Leadership is neglected or unfulfilled, trust is broken, engagement erodes, and performance suffers.”
― William A. Adams, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results

“Leaders set the context and create the conditions in which individuals and organizations thrive.”
― Bob Anderson, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results

“Great leaders create great cultures regardless of the dominant culture in the organization.”
― Bob Anderson, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results

“Leadership makes a difference in the results we create and the quality of life we live.”
― Bob Anderson, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results

“Transformation is an acquired taste—not for the faint of heart.”
― Bob Anderson, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results

“A better model of leadership means more effective leadership and better business results.”
― Bob Anderson, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results

“Once a good model gets inside you, it can inform and guide you throughout a lifetime.”
― Bob Anderson, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results

“Leaders set the agenda for the future.”
― Bob Anderson, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results