Andrew Strauss Quotes

I think leadership is most effective when it's your own personality. But I feel like it's a natural progression as a quarterback, as well.

If leadership is something that is in-your-face, then that is a different type of leadership.

I like to think I'll be quite instinctive as a leader.

Leadership is all about emotional intelligence. Management is taught, while leadership is experienced.

Great leadership can be a difficult thing to pin down and understand. You know a great leader when you're working for one, but even they can have a hard time articulating what it is that makes their leadership so effective.

Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.

You have to be a well-rounded leader. You can't fly by the seat of your pants anymore. You have to be incredibly tough-minded about standards of performance, but you also have to be incredibly tenderhearted with the people you're working with.

All leaders, male or female, innately possess feminine qualities like empathy, candor and vulnerability - the difference lies in which leaders choose to suppress those qualities, and which choose to leverage them as strengths.

You can learn more about leadership by reading about Lincoln than you can from most business books.

A leader who is self-aware enough to know that he or she is not adept at everything is one who has taken the first step toward being a great leader.

The best leaders adapt and are flexible with their situations. I try to be the same.

The only thing I don't think people don't understand about good leaders is that they're both good and lucky. A lot of it is timing.

I am always interested in looking for the strongest possible leadership.

This is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it once again points out how very important style of leadership, that is the way he does what he does, is to his perception.

The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers he gives, but by the questions he asks.

The new leader is a facilitator, not an order giver.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

To be an objective leader means aligning your models with the needs of the organization. There is no question anymore that collaboration, seeking out diverse perspectives and developing new ways to look at challenges and opportunities, is a key leadership competency.

It is very important that a leader in the hotel industry be both creative, I think, and compassionate.

We don’t need corporate generals. We need warrior generals…. Many of our military leaders are like car designers who have never driven a car….they go along to get along.

The book is actually called 'A Mentor Leader, a Different Way to Lead.' It really talks about my experience in the way I tried lead our football team, things that I learned from, basically, the coaches that I played for and my parents about leadership. And it is a little bit different, counter to maybe what society says about great leaders.

I'm not a great manager; I try to be a great leader. And for me, that's been going through a process of not how to be a great CEO but how to be a great Evan, and that's really been the challenge.

I have interacted with several top leaders. Modi is among the three smartest leaders I have met.