Day: April 14, 2026

‘How Decisive Leaders Execute Strategy Despite Obstacles…’

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning Report
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‘Your strategy is not what you say it is. Your strategy is where you put your resources.’

‘An organization chart is never about people. It’s about what needs to get done.’

‘When companies try to support an artificially high, unsupportable expense target, they can’t do anything well.’

‘Individuals can be more productive working at home, but teams can’t’-

Patty Azzarello

Recruitthebest.org

‘If there are no new resources to be added, the ability to do new stuff requires taking resources from old stuff. Simple but difficult.’

‘A company can be really clear about what it wants to accomplish, yet struggle to articulate the specific tasks that will make those goals come true.’

‘You can lead a transformation from the top, but you can’t implement a transformation from the top.’

Patty Azzarello

‘As a leader, you need to demonstrate your commitment to the transformation with every decision that you make every single day.’

Your job as a leader is not to make the best of the team you have, but to build the team you need.’

‘Success lies in getting the whole organization to feel personal ownership in the transformation.‘

‘Employees who know why their work matters do a better job.’

Source:

Patty Azzarello (2017). Move: How Decisive Leaders Execute Strategy Despite Obstacles, Setbacks, & Stalls

‘Leading So People Will Follow’

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning Report
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‘Why do people want passion in a leader?’

Erika Andersen

‘A truly passionate leader invites and encourages dialogue. She wants others to share in her passion, not simply tolerate or be railroaded by it.’

‘Leaders who are farsighted are realistic … and future oriented.’

‘Speaking from a we versus I perspective arises out of a belief that we are responsible for success, that we will work together to achieve the goals of the organization.’

‘Learning begins inside your own head, in managing how you’re talking to yourself about the obstacles before you.’

‘If we align ourselves behind a leader, we want that person to stay the course: we don’t want him or her to get bored, or distracted, or careless, and wander away from the fray.’

‘… Courageous leader also has the courage to change her mind in response to new information and take full responsibility for both the initial position and the new one.’

‘Courage in a leader is a blend of toughness, decisiveness, willingness to move past one’s own limitations, humility, and resilience. It involves making difficult business and personal decisions, overcoming fear and risk to act on those decisions, and responding to the outcomes of those decisions in a responsible way.’

‘People want courageous leaders in order to know that someone will make the tough calls and take responsibility for them.’-

Erika Andersen

Recruitthebest.org

‘When people observe their leader behaving courageously over time, they are much more willing to follow him or her into new territory.’

‘When the leader lacks courage, people feel as though they need to protect themselves. They tend to withdraw their commitment from the team and the enterprise and the enterprise try to figure out how to mitigate the personal impact of their leader’s lack of courage.’

Source:

Erika Andersen (2012). Leading So People Will Follow