Frances Hesselbein famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do it.
-- Frances Hesselbein

#Matter
The leader for today and the future will be focused on how to be - how to develop quality, character, mind-set, values, principles, and courage.
-- Frances Hesselbein

#Character #Leader #Mind
Organizations exist to make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. And this is the work of effective leaders.
-- Frances Hesselbein

#Motivational #Organization #People
Leadership is much less about what you do, and much more about who you are. If you view leadership as a bag of manipulative tricks or charismatic behaviors to advance your own personal interest, then people have every right to be cynical. But if your leadership flows first and foremost from inner character and integrity of ambition, then you can justly ask people to lend themselves to your organization and its mission.
-- Frances Hesselbein

#Integrity #Character #Ambition
Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers cannot compete in a highly competitive world.
-- Frances Hesselbein

#Unmotivated #World #Employee
The leader builds dispersed and diverse leadership - distributing leadership to the outermost edges of the circle to unleash the power of shared responsibility.
-- Frances Hesselbein

#Leadership #Responsibility #Circles
People know that pursuing a mission without achieving results is dispiriting; achieving results without a mission is meaningless.
-- Frances Hesselbein

#People #Achieve #Results
Leadership is much less about what you do, and much more about who you are.
-- Frances Hesselbein

#Who You Are
Key to the societal significance of tomorrow's leaders is the way they embrace the totality of leadership, not just including 'my organization' but reaching beyond the walls as well.
-- Frances Hesselbein

#Wall #Keys #Organization
It's not hard work that wears you out, but the repression of your true personality, and I've found a way of working that does not demand that.
-- Frances Hesselbein

#Hard Work #Personality #Doe
... I try ... to use my own voice in a way that shows caring, respect, appreciation, and patience. Your voice, your language, help determine your culture. And part of how a corporate culture is defined is how the people who work for an organization use language.
-- Frances Hesselbein

#Appreciation #Caring #Organization
I feel passionately about how I express myself. Language is the greatest motivating force. You can phrase something positively and inspire people to do their best, or negatively and make them feel worried, uncertain, and self-conscious. You can talk at a fast pace and people will get nervous, feel afraid to bring up extraneous thoughts. But those are the very thoughts that might be most important! They might represent that person's best thinking. If you're rushed, you're simply not going to get at that extra level of thinking.
-- Frances Hesselbein

#Thinking #Self #People
... I never look at my watch if I'm talking with someone. I think that's such an insulting gesture! It suggests you're trying to gauge whether you think what they're saying is worth your time. Rushing is no way to bring out what's best in people, and I'm always looking for the best. That's what's ultimately behind my determination to take my time.
-- Frances Hesselbein

#Determination #Thinking #Talking
The leader beyond the millennium will not be the leader who has learned the lessons of how to do it, with ledgers of 'hows' balanced with 'its' that dissolve in the crashing changes ahead. The leader for today and the future will be focused on how to be - how to develop quality, character mind-set, values, principles, and courage.
-- Frances Hesselbein

#Leadership #Character #Mind
Communication is not saying something; communication is being heard,
-- Frances Hesselbein

#Communication #Heard
Most of us will be remembered, in work and in life, for just a few words or deeds that made a difference to others. The way we choose to say good-bye is likely to be one of the ways we are remembered.
-- Frances Hesselbein

#Bye #Differences #Few Words
No matter what business you're in, everyone in the organisation needs to know why
-- Frances Hesselbein

#Leadership #Needs #Engagement

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