Leadership Evolution Quotes

Politics is a dynamic process. When I was a young man in the 1970s, Yasser Arafat had just perpetrated various terrorist attacks. Just a few years later, after I had entered European Parliament, the same Yasser Arafat was given the Nobel Peace Prize.

I'm more inclined to say the presidency has changed Trump rather than Trump changed the presidency. He has moderated or reversed himself on most of the positions he took as a candidate. Reality has set in, as it does with every new president.

Another idea that is changing is that the leader must be one who can make quick decisions. The leader to-day is often one who thinks out his decisions very slowly.

Leadership is an ever-evolving position.

I feel like in the course of my career, I've been in the iPhone era and the dilution of the big man.

I think that ego-driven leaders will be a thing of the past because the masses are tired.

Being a good leader today doesn't mean you'll be a good leader 10 years from now. You have to adapt to the times

I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides.

More than once in the history of Whole Foods Market, the company was unable to collectively evolve until I myself was able to evolve - in other words, I was holding the company back. My personal growth enabled the company to evolve.

I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.

As a company grows from 25 to 50 to 100 to 200 to 500 to 1000 people, the characteristics of who is the very best talent in leadership roles will change. It's rarely the case that your leadership team at 1000 people is the same leadership team you had a 25 people.

We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership

The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.

One of the ways we'll know that Work-Out has been successful is that my style of leadership will no longer be tolerated in this company.