Lee Bolman quotes

“The essence of leadership is not giving things or even providing visions. It is offering oneself and one's spirit.”
-- Lee Bolman

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“A vision without a strategy remains an illusion.”
-- Lee Bolman

Source : "Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership". Book by Lee Bolman and Terrence E. Deal, 1991.

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“Managers who master the hammer and expect all problems to behave like nails find organizational life confusing and frustrating.”
-- Lee Bolman

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“Spirit, faith, and positive energy are the core of human life, without them you lose your way. You live without Zest. You go through the motions but there's no passion”
-- Lee Bolman

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“If you show people you don't care, they'll return the favor. Show them you care, they'll reciprocate.”
-- Lee Bolman

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“Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.”

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

“Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.”

“To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.”

“Obedience to a confessor is the most acceptable offering which we can make to God, and the most secure way of doing the divine will.”

“Various Eastern fathers referred to the practice of married priests in their churches, offering each one of us elements for a further careful evaluation of the choice of the Latin church to connect celibacy to ordained priesthood.”

“Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear.”

“History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.”

Source : A. L. Rowse (2016). “The Use of History”, p.45, Routledge

“Democracy can be sustained and developed only by people who understand its essence.”

“The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.”

Source : Hung-Min Chiang, Abraham Harold Maslow (1969). “The healthy personality: readings”