More Related Content Similar to 100 Tweets About Leadership and the Power to Lead from Within (20) More from Salesforce Marketing Cloud (20) 100 Tweets About Leadership and the Power to Lead from Within3. Life is like a river and what gives it
meaning is not what you take out
of the river but what you put into it
@WalterIsaacson
4. Compromises may not make great
heroes but they make great
democracies, and that is an
element of leadership, too.
@WalterIsaacson
5. Being imaginative and creative is
what you're born with. To harness
within is what makes great leaders
@WalterIsaacson
6. If you truly have a passion for what
you do, you will care even about the
parts unseen.
@WalterIsaacson
7. Steve Jobs' "reality distortion"
tactic "don't be afraid, you can do
it" used to motivate teams to
extraordinary acts.
@WalterIsaacson
8. There is an importance in having
focus and providing simplicity in
your products or services.
@WalterIsaacson
12. Einstein knew what was inside of
the box before he thought outside
of the box. Knowledge precedes
creativity.
@WalterIsaacson
13. The good we can do together
exceeds the good we can do
separately.
@WalterIsaacson
14. What's more important than
building a great product is
creating a company that builds
great products.
@WalterIsaacson
17. Being fixated, obsessed and
curious on what the rest of us
deem mundane created the likes
of Einstein, Jobs and Franklin.
@WalterIsaacson
18. Preserve core values and purpose,
change cultural & operational
practices, specific goals & strategies.
Jim Collins
21. If your company cannot be great
without you as its leader, your
organization is not great.
Jim Collins
22. Ask yourself, how will some
people's lives be different & better
because you were here?
Jim Collins
23. Real discipline is not in what we
do but in what we do not do. There
are only 24 hours a day.
Jim Collins
25. Everyone has a to do list. The real
question is do you have a do not
do list.
Jim Collins
26. Who do I want to work with? Who
do I want to allow to mentor me?
Think first about who not what.
Jim Collins
29. Be of service - make a contribution and
a distinctive impact on people.
Jim Collins
30. Ego and ambition is channeled
into the cause of a company = true
humility as a leader.
Jim Collins
31. It is very dangerous to study
success. We don't study success.
We study the contrast between
success & failure.
Jim Collins
32. There is a tremendous opportunity
for you to lead during times of
inflection. That is how you build
something great.
Jim Collins
33. It's more about what we do to
ourselves than what the world
does to us.
Jim Collins
34. Discover what you are WIRED to
do. Discover what you like to do.
Discover what you can get paid to
do.
Jim Collins
35. Great teams have people with
VERY different personalities but
shared values.
Jim Collins
36. The most important and
transformative type of luck is
"who luck" not "what luck"
Jim Collins
37. Find a cause or object that you
are willing to be in service of it
and not the other way around.
Jim Collins
39. Spend less time worrying about
how to be successful and more
time worrying about how to be
useful."
Jim Collins
40. If you breathe you're creative.
What's rare? The ability to marry
discipline and creativity.
Jim Collins
41. Mediocrity is found in chronic
inconsistency. Know where you're
headed and do it day after day.
Jim Collins
43. Leaders don't go in with the
attitude that things are bad. They
find a way to lead with a sense of
optimism.
@CondoleezzaRice
44. Think first about who not what.
Who do I want to work with? Who
do I want to allow to mentor me?
Jim Collins
45. Charisma is a liability for great
leaders. Great leaders get you to
follow the cause, not them.
Jim Collins
46. If you remember that today's
problems are rarely associated
with legacy... you will build a
quality organization.
@CondoleezzaRice
48. Technology is an accelerant, but
not the cause. We live in a
interesting time but can still use
accelerants for good.
@CondoleezzaRice
49. We share a creed that it doesn't
matter where you came from it
matters where you are going.
@CondoleezzaRice
50. If you cannot allow people to do
their jobs... nobody with
substance and creativity will work
for you.
@CondoleezzaRice
51. Bring the people you trust with
you. They are the truth tellers that
will help you lead through
troubled times.
@CondoleezzaRice
52. The further you go up the chain.
The harder it gets for people to tell
you the bad news before it is too
late.
@CondoleezzaRice
53. Lead from a sense of optimism--
nobody wants to follow a sourpuss.
@CondoleezzaRice
54. You can never ask others to do
something you would not do. That
is integrity.
@CondoleezzaRice
55. Every good leader is part manager
and every good manager is part
leader.
@CondoleezzaRice
56. People don't respond well to "hair
on fire" mentality. You have to be
right with yourself and people will
follow
@CondoleezzaRice
57. When leading don't go in with the
attitude that things are bad. You
have to find a way to lead with a
sense of optimism
@CondoleezzaRice
58. Don't fall prey to the idea that
women lead differently.
@CondoleezzaRice
59. It isn't that you choose to lead
during challenging times; very
often challenging times come to
you.
@CondoleezzaRice
60. You do a disservice to young
people if you tell them to only find
mentors who look like you.
@CondoleezzaRice
61. It doesn't matter where you've come
from, it matters where you're going.
@CondoleezzaRice
62. You've got to lead not from a sense
of negativity in hard circumstances.
You've got to have optimism &
integrity.
@CondoleezzaRice
63. You can't control your
circumstances, but you can
control your response to those
circumstances."
@CondoleezzaRice
64. You can never ask others to do
something you would not do.
@CondoleezzaRice
65. Leaders understand and remain
focused on the essence of what
they're trying to accomplish.
@CondoleezzaRice
66. In order to do anything well, you
have to find something you're
passionate about.
@CondoleezzaRice
67. If someone treats you badly
because you're a woman, it's your
fault, not theirs.
@CondoleezzaRice
68. Marketers are in the forefront. We
used to be the first people laid off.
The value of marketing has been
realized.
@kevingespinosa
69. There is only one boss – the
customer – and he can fire everyone.
Sam Walton
70. Listening usually points to data
gathering. It needs to be
something that transforms your
company. It is a relationship.
@lebrun
72. We are entering into a new age.
The customer now controls the
medium and eventually the
message.
@kevinc2003
73. The digital marketing shift is
continuous. We are not transitioning
into a new phase but into a new age.
@kyleplacy
74. Leverage the wisdom of the
crowd. Do not sit in a meeting
room and build strategy. Ask your
customer and engage.
@kevinc2003
75. "We've always felt that the customer
is the additional person in the board
room."
@Sony/@Playstation via @ExactTarget
76. CMOs should be the interface
between the company and
customer. Not only
communication but product and
sales.
@tbkopp
77. If you make a bad decision... You
are just lazy. All of the information
is in your back pocket.
@JAYBAER
80. All social is a mix of personal and
brands. Your friends are not
buying ads to reach you. We are
being forced to compete with
friends.
@jaybaer
81. Customers do not go shopping
anymore. They are ALWAYS
shopping. Searching. Sharing.
Collaborating.
@rjtalyor
82. To become a customer company,
you must create contextual
experiences on the mobile device.
@rjtalyor
83. Customers do not go shopping
anymore. They are ALWAYS
shopping. Searching. Sharing.
Collaborating.
@rjtalyor
84. Be a farmer not a hunter. Your
customers want you to help them
not just sell them.
@jaybaer
85. Be a farmer not a hunter. Your
customers want you to help them
not just sell them.
@jaybaer
87. Math is the new creative. Data
beats opinions. Build strategy
around data.
@DeloitteDIGI_US
88. Experience is everything for a
brand. Building a great
experience and then capturing it
in the form of data to continue it.
@DeloitteDIGI_US
89. We must move from numbers
keeping score to numbers that
drive better actions.
@DavidWalmsley
91. Kill the annual plan. Do annual
objectives and weekly plans.
Build SCRUMS over the weekly
plans.
@DeloitteDIGI_US
92. The digital marketing shift is
continuous. We are not
transitioning into a new phase but
into a new age.
@smccorkle
93. Produce as much rich media as
possible to build a digital media
library to help map your
customer's brand journey.
@ExactTarget
94. Anytime there is significant
innovation occurring in
infrastructure.. it ultimately
becomes disruptive to commerce.
@KennyTomlin
95. Once you inspire and understand
the essence of your brand, it is
also important that you react and
engage.
@JKRohrs
96. Kill the annual plan. Do annual
objectives and weekly plans.
Build SCRUMS over the weekly
plans.
@edpric
97. You must allow your customers to
share your story. Your customer
IS your best salesperson.
@kyleplacy
100. “To lead the orchestra, you must
turn your back on the crowd.” –
Max Lucado
@ExactTarget