Frances Hesselbein Quotes

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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
Communication is not saying something; communication is being heard,

Frances Hesselbein
The three major challenges CEOs will face have little to do with managing the enterprise's tangible assets and everything to do with monitoring the quality of: leadership, the work force, and relationships.

Frances Hesselbein
If we are to remain mission focused, as we must be if we are to be relevant in an uncertain age, the abandoning those things that do not further the mission is a leadership imperative.

Frances Hesselbein
It is the quality and the character of the leader that determines the results and performance.

Frances Hesselbein
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
People know that pursuing a mission without achieving results is dispiriting; achieving results without a mission is meaningless.

Frances Hesselbein
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