第47届世界经济论坛年会将于1月17日至20日在瑞士小镇达沃斯举行。本届年会的主题为“领导力:应势而为,勇于担当”(Responsive and Responsible Leadership)。
什么样的领导算是好领导?要做一个好的领导,需要具备哪些素质?我们甄选了30条与领导力有关的名人名言,或许会给大家一些启示。
1. He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. — Aristotle
没有学会服从的人,无法成为一个好指挥官。——亚里士多德
2. A leader is a dealer in hope. — Napoleon Bonaparte
领袖就是一个贩卖希望的商人。——拿破仑
3. If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. — Maya Angelou, writer
如果幸运的话,单个的幻想可以完全改变100万个现实。——作家玛娅-安杰洛
4. A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. — Lao Tzu, Chinese philosopher and poet
太上,不知有之。功成,事遂,百姓謂我自然。——中国哲学家、诗人老子
5. Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. — Warren Bennis, scholar and author
领导力就是将想象转变成现实的能力。——学者、作家沃伦-本尼斯
6. Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. — Jack Welch, American business executive
成为领袖之前,成功就是让自己成长。成为领袖之后,成功是让别人成长。——美国商业领袖杰克-韦尔奇
7. A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. — John Maxwell, author
领袖,知其道,行其道,授其道者也。——作家约翰-麦克斯维尔
8. There are four ingredients in true leadership: brains, soul, heart and good nerves. — Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum
真正的领导力有四个构成要素:智慧、灵魂、真心以及良好的心理状态。——世界经济论坛创始人及执行主席克劳斯-施瓦布
9. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change world. — Margaret Mead, cultural anthropologist
毫无疑问,一小群有思想、关心社会的民众可以改变世界。——文化人类学家玛格丽特米德
10. The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground. — Sir Winston Churchill
对于一个时刻在意周遭声音的领袖,这个国家的民众很难有敬重之情。——温斯顿-丘吉尔爵士
11. I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. — Ralph Nader, American political activist
我的前提是,领导力的作用是培养出更多的领袖,而不是制造出更多的跟班。——美国政治活动家拉尔夫-纳德
12. The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. — Kenneth Blanchard, author and management expert
现如今,成功的领导力关键在于影响力,而不是权威。——作家兼管理专家肯尼斯-布兰查德
13. A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible. — Polybius, Greek historian of the Hellenistic period
一名好的将军不仅知道如何取胜,也知道何时认输。——希腊历史学家波利比乌斯
14. A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be. — Rosalynn Carter, former first lady of the United States
普通的领袖把人们带往他们想去的地方。伟大的领袖把人们带往他们不一定想去、但应该去的地方。——美国前第一夫人罗莎琳-卡特
15. The best executive has sense to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it. — Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President
最好的领导能够选出合适的人完成他安排的任务,然后在他们完成任务期间克制自己不去干涉。——美国第26位总统西奥多-罗斯福
16. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. — General Dwight Eisenhower
领导力是一门艺术,就是让别人主动想去做一些你希望能够完成的事情。——艾森豪威尔将军
17. The leader has to be practical and a realist yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. — Eric Hoffer, philosopher
领袖要注重实际,要是个现实主义者,但同时又必须像空想派和理想主义者那样说话。——哲学家埃里克-霍弗