Frances Hesselbein Quotes

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Frances Hesselbein

Profession : Businessman

Birth : November 1, 1915

It takes courage for a leader to identify and confront self-imposed barriers, to put in place the personal strategies required to unleash the energy, innovation, and commitment to self-development.

Frances Hesselbein

Leadership is a matter of how to be - not how to do it.

Frances Hesselbein

Practice self-awareness, self-evaluation, and self-improvement. If we are aware that our manners - language, behavior, and actions - are measured against our values and principles, we are able to more easily embody the philosophy, leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do.

Frances Hesselbein

Leadership is not a basket of tricks or strategies or skills that you pull out. Leadership begins with the quality of the person.

Frances Hesselbein

We do not know what lies ahead, yet whatever the challenge, leaders will rise, finding the heart, the language, the caring that embraces and sustains.

Frances Hesselbein

Carry a big basket. In other words, be open to new ideas, different partners, and new practices, and have a willingness to dump out the old and irrelevant to make room for new approaches.

Frances Hesselbein

In my life, I don't have roadblocks and obstacles. I might have something you would call a 'challenge.' I throw that out the window, and I call that a wonderful opportunity.

Frances Hesselbein

A single person doesn't change an organization, but culture and good people do.

Frances Hesselbein

When you see a roadblock or challenge as an opportunity, it is amazing how you are already halfway there.

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I didn't have a career plan. But what I did was, whenever there was a door open and a new opportunity, I always looked into it and took a chance and walked through the door.

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When it comes to communicating change at any time, the mission must be clear, and it must inspire.

Frances Hesselbein

Donors do not reward good intentions.

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Leadership flows from inner character and integrity of ambition, which inspires others to lend themselves to your organization's mission.

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It is not business, it is not government - it is the social sector that may yet save the society.

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Tears belong within the family.

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I believe that tears should be very private, and no matter what issue or what situation, we should have a very dignified demeanor.

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If you grow up in Germantown, Pennsylvania, as I did, 5:30 means 5:30.

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There's something exhilarating about being in the mountains and talking about management and the future with Peter Drucker.

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With a growing number of one-parent families in the country, the Girl Scout troop can be an indispensable and powerful positive factor.

Frances Hesselbein

It is what we do with our lives that counts.

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