Quotes by Max De Pree

Max De Pree

A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: Leaders don’t inflict pain. They bear pain.

Inspirational

Motivational

Pain

A short term view will lead to a partial and perhaps twisted view of the whole picture. A crucial element may be missing. We may not be running the entire race. A friend of mine described a colleague as great at running the “ninety-five yard dash.” That is a distinction I can do without. Lacking the last five yards makes the first ninety-five pointless. In fact, serious runners thing of it as a 110 yard dash so that no one will best them in the last few yards. You’ve got to think beyond the whole.

Friendship

Running

Thinking

A team of giants needs giant pitchers who throw good ideas but every pitcher needs an outstanding catcher. Without giant catchers, the ideas of the giant pitchers may eventually disappear.

Baseball

Ideas

Team

A whale is as unique as a cactus. But don’t ask a whale to survive Death Valley. We all have special gifts. Where we use them and how determines whether we actually complete something.

Diversity

Unique

Whales

Above all, leadership is a position of servanthood.

Position

Servanthood

By ourselves we suffer serious limitations. Together we can be something wonderful.

Serious

Suffering

Together We Can

Change without continuity is chaos. Continuity without change is sloth-and very risky.

Change

Chaos

Sloth

Earning trust is not easy, nor is it cheap, nor does it happen quickly. Earning trust is hard and demanding work. Trust comes only with genuine effort, never with a lick and a promise.

Doe

Effort

Promise

Everyone in a successful organization must be willing and ready to risk. Risk is like change; it’s not a choice.

Choices

Organization

Successful

From a leader’s perspective, the most serious betrayal has to do with thwarting human potential, with quenching the spirit, with failing to deal equitably with each other as human beings.

Betrayal

Leader

Perspective

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Able

Accomplish

Accumulation

Alliances

Answers

Art

Assets

Baseball

Beautiful

Belief

Beliefs And Values

Believe

Betrayal

Change

Chaos

Choices

Circles

Civility

Climate

Coaching

Cold

Commitment

Communication

Decline

Demonstration

Differences

Diversity

Doe

Dog

Effective Listening

Effort

Essentials

Fixed

Followers

Friendship

Generator

Genuine

Giving Up

Grace

Great Things

Growing

Growing Old

Growth

Healing

Heart

Humane Way

Ideas

Individual

Innovation

Inspirational

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Quotes by Max De Pree

Max De Pree

A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: Leaders don’t inflict pain. They bear pain.

A team of giants needs giant pitchers who throw good ideas but every pitcher needs an outstanding catcher. Without giant catchers, the ideas of the giant pitchers may eventually disappear.

A whale is as unique as a cactus. But don’t ask a whale to survive Death Valley. We all have special gifts. Where we use them and how determines whether we actually complete something.

Above all, leadership is a position of servanthood.

By ourselves we suffer serious limitations. Together we can be something wonderful.

Change without continuity is chaos. Continuity without change is sloth-and very risky.

Earning trust is not easy, nor is it cheap, nor does it happen quickly. Earning trust is hard and demanding work. Trust comes only with genuine effort, never with a lick and a promise.

Everyone in a successful organization must be willing and ready to risk. Risk is like change; it’s not a choice.

From a leader’s perspective, the most serious betrayal has to do with thwarting human potential, with quenching the spirit, with failing to deal equitably with each other as human beings.

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