David Nadler Champions of Change, Academic

1. “Leadership in the new business world must be transformational… they become the psychological focal point for many of their employees; in an almost mystical way they become the personal embodiment of the institution, its values, its belief, and its future.” • David Nadler • Champions of Change, Academic

2. “The successof an intervention depends on theinteriorcondition oftheintervenor.” • William O’Brien • Former CEO oftheHanover Insurance Company

3. “Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.” • Warren Bennis • Academic

4. “The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.” • Max De Pree • Academic

5. “The way to engender enthusiasm is to allow employees far more freedom and far more responsibility.” • Jack Welch • Ex CEO of GE

6. “If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.” • Anita Roddick • Founder of Body Shop

7. “Self-confident leaders produce simple plans, speak simply, and propose big, clear targets.” • Jack Welch • Ex CEO of GE

8. “The world is much more competitive and is changing faster, and there isn’t enough time for executives to manage, to control, to track results. You need to focus on vision and beliefs and values and inspiring people and breaking roadblocks for people to be able to accomplish more.” • Bob Eaton • Chairman of Chrysler

9. “The tail trails the head. If the head moves fast, the tail will keep the same pace. If the head is sluggish, the tail will droop.” • Konosuke Matsushita • Founder and President of Panasonic

10. “Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.” • Tacitus • Ancient Roman historian

11. “Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people but you can’t be two people. Instead you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.” • Lee Iacocca • Chairman of Chrysler

12. “In times of great stress or adversity its always best to keep busy, to plough your anger and energy into something positive.” • Lee Iacocca • Chairman of Chrysler

13. “Fantasising about the futureis one of my favourite pastimes.” • Richard Branson • Entrepreneur and CEO of Virgin Group

14. “The time I formerly spent on detailed planning and analysis I now use to look at the structures that might facilitate relationships. I have come to expect that something useful occurs if I link up people, units, or tasks, even though I cannot determine precise outcomes.” • Margaret Wheatley

15. “My biggest motivation? I just keep challenging myself. I see life as almost like one long University education that I never had - every day I learn something new.” • Richard Branson • Entrepreneur and CEO of Virgin Group

16. “The mood of leaders has the greatest impact on performance… great leadership works through the power to sway emotions and emotional connection” • Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee Academics

17. “Character is the key to leadership. Research at Harvard University indicates that 85 percent of a leader's performance depends on personal character. Likewise, the work of Daniel Goleman makes clear that leadership success or failure is usually due to ‘qualities of the heart’.” • Warren Bennis • Academic

18. “Leadership is a much more elementary and basic human relationship than management. It’s an art dealing much more with the spirit of a man and management is much more a science.” • Field Marshall William Slim • British Field Marshall Viscount

19. “Leadership is the art • of getting someone else • to do something you want done • because he wants to do it.” • Dwight Eisenhower • American Head of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, NATO and President of USA

20. “Great Leaders have five qualities: courage, will-power, judgment, flexibility and knowledge, and an element in which all the other qualities work, integrity. Integrity is a little more than just plain honesty. It is really the old, Christian virtue of loving your neighbour even before yourself, and ‘your neighbour’, for a leader, is the people he leads and he must always think of them and put their well-being actually before his own.” • Field Marshall William Slim • British Field Marshall Viscount

21. “Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.” • Norman Schwarzkopf • American General

22. “Leaders are dealers in hope.” • Napoleon Bonaparte • Emperor of France

23. “Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.” • George Patton • American General

24. “A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him.” • Napoleon Bonaparte • Emperor of France

25. “Be an example to your men, in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself, and let the troops see that you don't in your endurance of fatigue and privation. Always be tactful and well mannered and teach your subordinates to do the same. Avoid excessive sharpness or harshness of voice, which usually indicates the man who has shortcomings of his own to hide.” • Erwin Rommel • German Field Marshal of AfrikaKorps

26. “You must love soldiers in order to understand them, and understand them in order to lead them.” • Henri Turenne • French General and Marshal of France

27. “I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle” • Dwight Eisenhower • American Head of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, NATO and President of USA

28. “The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.” • Theodore Roosevelt • President of the US

29. “If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his true friend. Next, probe to discover what he wants to accomplish.” • Abraham Lincoln • President of the US

30. “Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.” • Rev Jesse Jackson • American civil rights activist and Baptist minister

31. “Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because it is the quality that guarantees all others.” • Winston Churchill • British Prime Minister

32. “To improve is to change, to be perfect is to change often.”  • Winston Churchill • British Prime Minister

33. “Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” • Winston Churchill • British Prime Minister

34. “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” • Winston Churchill • British Prime Minister

35. “I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.” Golda Meir Prime Minister of Israel

36. “Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement” Golda Meir Prime Minister of Israel

37. “You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.” Benazir Bhutto President of Pakistan

38. “Thinking realistically never got anyone anywhere; be true to your heart and aim for your dreams” Margaret Thatcher British Prime Minister

39. “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate but that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. As we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people to do the same.” • Nelson Mandela • President of South Africa

40. “How very little can be done under the spirit of fear” • Florence Nightingale • Victorian pioneer of modern nursing

41. “What motivates my human rights campaigns and makes me put up with these death threats and violent attacks? Quite simple: I love other people and loathe injustice. Seeing others suffer distresses me. I think to myself: that could be me or my loved ones. Since I wouldn't like my family or friends to suffer, why should I tolerate the suffering of other people's nearest and dearest? Aren't we all part of the same human race?” • Peter Tatchell • British human rights activist

42. “Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better” • Florence Nightingale • Victorian pioneer of modern nursing

43. “I think ones feelings waste themselves in words; they ought to be distilled into actions which bring results” • Florence Nightingale • Victorian pioneer of modern nursing

44. “I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving” • Sylvia Pankhurst • British suffragette

45. “It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.” • William Wilberforce • British politician, philanthropist and abolitionist

46. “If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?” • Hillel the Elder • Pharisee and Jewish religious leader

47. “The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it” Dietrich Bonhoeffer German Theologian and Martyr

48. “Be the change you want to see in the world.” • Mahatma Ghandi • Political and spiritual leader of Indian independence movement

49. “If one branch doesn't move, the many branches won't stir. If someone does not lead, no one will follow.” • Confucius • Chinese thinker and social philosopher

50. “To produce things and to rear them,to produce, but not to take possession of them, to act, but not to rely on one's own ability, to lead them, but not to master them.” • Lao-tzu • Chinese philosopher