The Leadership Coaching Blog

The following leadership quotes are by Peter Drucker:

“Leadership is not magnetic personality — that can just as well be a glib tongue.  It is not “making friends and influencing people” — that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal  limitations.”

“The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say “I.”   And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say “I.”    They don’t think “I”.  They think “we”; they think “team.”  They understand their job to be to make the team function.   They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but “we” gets the credit….  This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done. ”

“No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it.   It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.”

“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.”

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”

I agree that leaders need to take time out to shape their own and their team or company vision; that they need to inspire others with their own vision and show how it fits with the company vision.  They need to develop trusting relationships in order to get others to perform to their potential and achieve the company vision and goals.  In addition, they need to know what to focus their attention on, and be able to get the best from themselves.