"As a leader...your principal job is to create an operating environment where others can do great things."
--Richard Teerlink
"You may have to fight a battle more than once in order to win it."
--Margaret
Thatcher
"The...thing you can do to make your agency a more interesting place to work and consequently less bureaucratic is to enable those under you to feel they control their own areas of work. In this way they acquire a sense of ownership in what gets done and how they do it."
--Kenneth Ashworth
"Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be set right."
--Carl Schurz
"You cannot be effective if those who work for you are not. So building
their effectiveness ought
to be a priority."
--Richard N. Haass
"All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in
their own education."
--Sir Walter Scott
"Make sure you're not just waiting for someone else to fix things, or
hoping that things will
improve...Figure out what's going on and make a plan to improve things."
--Kenneth
W. Thomas
"Nothing so undermines organizational change as the failure to think
through the losses people
face."
--William Bridges
"You may be the boss, but you're only as good as the people who work
for you."
--Rear Admiral William Leahy
"Leadership is the creation of an environment in which others are able
to self-actualize in the
process of completing the job."
--John Mellecker
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