36 Leadership Development Program Quotes

In the ever-evolving landscape of business and personal growth, leadership development programs play a crucial role in nurturing and refining the skills of aspiring leaders. These initiatives are designed to equip individuals with the insights, tools, and confidence needed to guide their teams and organizations towards success. Whether you’re a seasoned executive or just starting out on your leadership journey, words of wisdom from those who have walked the path before can provide powerful inspiration and guidance. In this blog post, we’ve curated a collection of the top 36 leadership development program quotes to motivate, inspire, and help you thrive in your leadership role.

1. “A manager’s emotional commitment is the ultimate trigger for their discretionary effort, worth more than financial, intellectual & physical commitment combined.” - Stan Slap

2. “Emotional commitment means unchecked, unvarnished devotion to the company and its success; any legendary organizational performance is the result of emotionally committed managers.” - Stan Slap

3. “What companies want most from their managers is what they most stop their managers from giving. What managers want most from their jobs is what they most stop themselves from getting.” - Stan Slap

4. “Providing the ultimate solution to work/life balance: not escaping from work but living the way you want to at work.” - Stan Slap

5. “The company may have captured their minds, their bodies and their pockets, but that doesn’t mean it’s captured their hearts.” - Stan Slap

6. “The worst thing in your own development as a leader is not to do it wrong. It’s to do it for the wrong reasons.” - Stan Slap

7. “The purpose of leadership is to change the world around you in the name of your values, so you can live those values more fully.” - Stan Slap

8. “Your company really has to work for you before you’ll really work for your company.” - Stan Slap

9. “Imagine a world where what you say synchs up, not sinks down.” - Stan Slap

10. “The myth of management is that your personal values are irrelevant or inappropriate at work.” - Stan Slap

11. “When you’re a manager, you work for your company. When you’re a leader, your company works for you.” - Stan Slap

12. “Instead of waiting for a leader you can believe in, try this: Become a leader you can believe in.” - Stan Slap

13. “You can stuff yourself with emotional fulfillment until it’s dribbling down your chin & your ego will quickly chomp it down and demand more.” - Stan Slap

14. “You can’t sell it outside if you can’t sell it inside.” - Stan Slap

15. “Being relevant to your customers only when you’re trying to sell something means choosing to be irrelevant to them for the rest of the time.” - Stan Slap

16. “There will be plenty of other problems in the future. This is as good a time as any to get ahead of them.” - Stan Slap

17. “The first step out of the gate has to be knowing where you want to end up. What do you really want from your company?” - Stan Slap

18. “Success means: I want to know the work I do means something to somebody and helps make the world, if not a Better place, not a worse one.” - Stan Slap

19. “Let’s get right on top of the bottom line: You must live your personal values at work.” - Stan Slap

20. “Do you think your people struggle with being true to themselves? Do their values match up with their work?” - Stan Slap

21. “Your values are your essence: an undistorted mirror showing you at your pure, attractive best.” - Stan Slap

22. “The high quality of a company’s customer experience rarely has anything to do with the high price of their product.” - Stan Slap

23. “Careful now: even a financially rewarding, intellectually stimulating work environment isn’t the same as living your own values.” - Stan Slap

24. “To integrate one’s experiences around a coherent and enduring sense of self lies at the core of creating a user’s guide to life.” - Stan Slap

25. “Management controls performance in people because it impacts skills; it’s a matter of monitoring, analyzing and directing.” - Stan Slap

26. “Leadership creates performance in people because it impacts willingness; it’s a matter of modeling, inspiring, and reinforcing.” - Stan Slap

27. “Leaders make a lot of mistakes but they admit those mistakes to themselves and change because of them.” - Stan Slap

28. “Any expert will tell you that if you want emotionally committed relationships then people must be allowed to be true to who they are.” - Stan Slap

29. “Companies should be the best possible place to practice fulfillment, to live out values and to realize deep connectivity and purpose.” - Stan Slap

30. “When you’re not on your own agenda, you’re prey to the agenda of others.” - Stan Slap

31. “Emotional commitment is a personal choice. Managers understand this even if their companies don’t.” - Stan Slap

32. “Why live my personal values at work? This is an excellent question to ask. If your attorneys are planning an insanity defense.” - Stan Slap

33. “Work/life balance is not about escaping work. It’s about living exactly the way you want to when you’re at work.” - Stan Slap

34. “This is your one and only precious life. Somebody’s going to decide how it’s going to be lived and that person had better be you.” - Stan Slap

35. “It’s impossible for a company to get what it wants most if managers have to make a choice between their own values and company priorities.” - Stan Slap

36. “Imagine going to work every day to do only and exactly what you love!! All the work gets done because of the abundant diversity of your team. Different skills, interests and talents are woven together into a whole that is much greater than the sum of the parts!” - Denise Moreland