Elizabeth Thornton Quotes

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.

An important part of leadership is being able to hold two things in your mind at once: Dealing with the reality, whatever it may be, and focus on hope for the future. Any leader helping an organization through challenges needs to be able to do both.

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.

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

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.

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

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.

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

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

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

Every manager must be prepared to face every situation.

There's a conventional wisdom that says that strategic thinking is much more important than relationship building, which doesn't seem to be nearly as highly valued as it should be, based on what some of the leaders that I've spoken with have said to me.

I'm not aggressive by nature and it was tough for me to make the transition to directing.

I think the job of leadership is to expand what can be talked about and to get consensus on the nature of the problem, and that is most of the job. Because once you do that, once you have diagnosis, treatment options are obvious.

A president, like a college freshman, can't know in advance which questions he'll have to answer or what topics he'll have to master. He has to be flexible, supple, and responsive. He has to be comfortable with multiple-choice.

I've got an opinion on everything, so I should go into management.

As a whole, the managers today are different in temperament. Most have very good communication skills and are more understanding of the umpire's job. That doesn't mean they are better managers. It just means that I perceive today's managers a bit differently.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

I think the best directors rarely lose their temper.

I enjoy working with people. I understand that as a necessity. And clearly that's something that develops as you get older. And I've grown into that.

Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.

Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.

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.

In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.