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Democrats' attack on the Republican majority leader is nothing but a coordinated agenda to stop an effective leader from accomplishing the people's business. -- Bill Shuster
Introverts are more effective leaders of proactive employees. When you have a creative, energetic work force, an introvert is going to draw out that energy better. -- Laurie Helgoe
I think effective leaders typically are able to see the future to a certain degree and then try to take actions to shape it in some way. -- Mitt Romney
To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength. -- Norman Schwarzkopf
Ultimately as a leader, you're evaluated on how you interact with people. If you do it well, you develop a reputation as effective leader. If you don't, you develop a reputation for being a highly ineffective leader. -- Douglas Conant
Gov. Romney is a proven and effective leader with vast experience in the business world, in the non-profit world and in government. And in every capacity in which he has ever served, he has been effective as a leader. -- Jim Talent
Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision that most people think is crazy. They convince the kids why it's important to accomplish the goal. And they are totally relentless. -- Wendy Kopp
I would assert that highly effective leaders are made more than they're born. Every leader I know who's been highly effective has worked hard at it, and they've been students of it. The more you're a student of leadership, the more you figure out what works for you and the more effective you're going to be. -- Douglas Conant
The cornerstone of effective leadership is self-mastery. -- Patricia Aburdene
You don't become an effective leader by default. -- John C. Maxwell
Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. -- Eric Hoffer
Having the right attitude is fundamental to being an effective leader. -- Jim George
Charisma is the result of effective leadership, not the other way around. -- Warren G. Bennis
An effective leader allows exceptions to the rule for exceptional results or when circumstance demands. -- John Wooden
When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally. -- Laozi
Clarity is the preoccupation of the effective leader. If you do nothing else as a leader, be clear. -- Marcus Buckingham
Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic". -- Stephen Covey
Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism. -- Richard M. Nixon
The effective leader recognizes that she is more dependent on her people than they are on her. Walk softly. -- Brian Tracy
The goal of an effective leader is to recondition your team to be solution focused rather than problem focused. -- Jim Rohn
The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence. -- James Fisher
It has been well said that an effective leader must know the meaning and master the technique of the educator. -- Philip Selznick
Learning to be an effective leader is no different than learning to be an effective person. And that's the hard part -- Warren G. Bennis
An ability to embrace new ideas, routinely challenge old ones, and live with paradox will be the effective leader's premier trait. -- Tom Peters
If you don't have the ability to see when to stand up and the conviction to do it, you'll never be an effective leader. -- John C. Maxwell
Only the person who does not evade conflict and directs his efforts in keeping with the course of society's development can be an effective leader. -- Georgi Plekhanov
We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership. -- John P. Kotter
The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader. -- Bill Hybels
In my opinion, being an effective leader requires being an effective listener. The most productive leaders are usually those who are consistently willing to listen and learn. -- John Wooden
An effective leader develops the ability to correctly identify the pertinent detail or details - incidentals in a market, industry or sport that might create an incremental advantage. -- John Wooden
Being an effective leader is enormously complex. It requires vision to see a future, dedication to make things happen, sensitivity to people who are quirky at times, and personal confidence without arrogance. -- Dave Ulrich
The roots of effective leadership lie in simple things, one of which is listening. Listening to someone demonstrates respect; it shows that you value their ideas and are willing to hear them. -- John Baldoni
I think Americans expect optimism in their leadership. The most popular and effective leaders, whether it was Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan or Jack Kennedy, brought to it a sense of optimism and possibility. -- David Brooks
An effective leader creates specific, achievable goals, initiates action and enlists the participation of others. They remove distractions; grasps the bigger picture, focuses on one task at a time; completes the task competently and organizes for the future. -- Ken Wyatt
I believe one of the requirements of good leadership is the ability to listen - really listen - to those in your organization. An effective leader is very good at listening, and it's difficult to listen when you are talking. -- John Wooden
This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to be bastions of moral integrity, perfect people, saints. And on the other hand, we want them to be effective leaders. -- Beau Willimon
You must love those you lead before you can be an effective leader, you can certainly command without that sense of commitment, but you cannot lead without it. And without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance. -- Eric Shinseki
Success in an enterprise can be brought about, through effective leadership, which educes open communication, which in turn would contribute towards bringing down conflict levels, thus leading to higher productivity and distinguished gains, which in turn testifies about the healthy corporate culture of an organization. -- Henrietta Newton Martin
Marcus Buckingham has a keen sense of what it takes to excel, and he backs his insights with an impressive body of in-depth interviews and research. This is an important book for anybody who aspires to effective leadership, managing, or any kind of enduring individual achievement. -- Richard M. Kovacevich
As a result of [my campaign's] discussions and other interactions with gay and lesbian voters across the state, I am more convinced than ever that as we seek to establish full equality for America's gay and lesbian citizens, I will provide more effective leadership than Ted Kennedy. -- Mitt Romney
Developing excellent COMMUNICATION skills is absolutely essential to effective leadership. The leader must be able to share knowledge and ideas to transmit a sense of urgency and enthusiasm to others. If a leader can't get a message across clearly and motivate others to act on it, then having a message doesn't even matter. -- Gil Amelio
Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change. -- Walter Isaacson
Working with the media remains an effective and essential way to raise issues, educate the public, and prod policy-makers and corporate leaders to change for the better. -- Chuck Schumer
The combined entity Youku Tudou Inc. represents a dominant leader in online video sector in China with the largest user base, most comprehensive content library, most advanced bandwidth infrastructure, and most effective monetization capability. -- Victor Koo
The Gulf Waterkeepers are our first line of defense against the BP oil disaster. Their incredible knowledge of the marshes, wetlands, beaches and inner-coastal waters make them invaluable first responders. Their commitment makes them critical and effective community leaders. -- Sophie B. Hawkins
There is no more effective way to radicalize American Muslim youth than for political leaders to make public displays of prejudice against all Muslims. Suspicion will undermine their sense of identification with America and alienate some from both the culture and from politics. -- Miroslav Volf
I think having Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House is going to send a very wonderful lesson to the American public that women can be strong, they can be tough, they can be effective, and they can lead this country as political leaders. -- Ellen Malcolm
I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society. -- Daisaku Ikeda
Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to. -- Beau Willimon
As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole. -- Lance Secretan
Arthur Scargill's leadership of the miners' strike has been a disgrace. The price to be paid for his folly will be immense. He will have destroyed the N.U.M. as an effective fighting force within British trade unionism for the next 20 years. If kamikaze pilots were to form their own union, Arthur would be an ideal choice for leader. -- Jimmy Reid
The most effective leaders are actually better at guarding against danger when they acknowledge it that it exists. Cowards, in contrast, cling to the hope that failure will never happen and may be sloppy in the face of danger - not because they don't acknowledge that it exists, but because they are just too afraid of it to look it in the eye. -- Simon Sinek
Authenticity and knowing who you are is fundamental to being an effective and long-standing leader. -- Ann M. Fudge
The more humble and transparent a leader is, the more effective he or she will be. -- Michael Hyatt
I said last week that the number on Jean's back does not matter. He stays effective as a runner, decision-maker and leader. -- Allister Coetzee
If you increase your success by even a mere 10 percent, you have become 10 percent more effective as a leader than you were before. -- Dale Carnegie
One generalization that is supported both by research and experience is that effective two-way communication is essential to proper functioning of the leader-follower relationship. -- John W. Gardner
"'Come on, guys, I'm the leader of a whole movie...!' I tell when I want people to fear and respect me. Not wildly effective." -- Joss Whedon

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