Leadership Quotes

What separates leaders from the crowd? These words from history's most influential figures reveal the answer.

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"The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things"
Law, John
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"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality"
Law, John
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"Leadership is the capacity to care for those entrusted to you."
Mol, Annemarie
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"Leadership is service to the common good."
Mol, Annemarie
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"We are all responsible for the worlds we shape through our practices."
Haraway, Donna
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"We need to think about response-ability at every moment."
Haraway, Donna
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"Leadership is the courage to bring others along a path you cannot yet see clearly."
Ahmed, Sara
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"Leadership begins with the willingness to listen more than to speak."
Ahmed, Sara
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"Leadership is about creating spaces where others can flourish and become otherwise."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"True leadership is the art of making others believe in themselves."
Law, John
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"Leadership is the burden of being wrong and learning from it publicly."
Law, John
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"Accountability requires recognizing our entanglement with what we study."
Barad, Karen
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"Accountability is not about casting blame but about recognizing our role in worldmaking."
Barad, Karen
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"Responsibility is not a choice but an obligation imposed by our entanglement with the world."
Barad, Karen
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"Leadership is the courage to see what others cannot yet see."
Ahmed, Sara
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"Leadership is the willingness to serve those who follow you."
Ahmed, Sara
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"Power operates through networks of relation, not through hierarchical command."
Haraway, Donna
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"Actors are not puppets. They are creative agents who shape the world around them."
Callon, Michel
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"Leadership is about creating conditions for others to act."
Callon, Michel
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"We are all architects of social reality."
Callon, Michel
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"A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions."
Law, John
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"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."
Law, John
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"An actor is what is made to act by many others."
Latour, Bruno
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"Authority is not centralized; it is distributed through networks."
Latour, Bruno
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"Every action is distributed across multiple actors."
Latour, Bruno
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"Authority requires the work of making and maintaining."
Latour, Bruno
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"We need new institutions that protect deceleration."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"We must create institutions of deceleration and resistance."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"Standards are the result of protracted negotiations among diverse actors."
Callon, Michel
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"Delegation is the fundamental operation of all organization."
Callon, Michel