Max de Pree
Max de Pree
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth28 October 1924
CountryUnited States of America
Max de Pree quotes about
- effective-listening
- listening-to-others
- leader
- humane-way
- people
- liberating
- integrity
- essentials
- demonstration
- learning
- grace
- followers
- remaining
- wisdom
- problem
- fixed
- generator
- leadership
- responsibility
- reality
- motivational
- outstanding
- legacy
- should
- friendship
- running
- thinking
- effort
- promise
- genuine
leader
Trust cannot be bought or commanded, inherited or enforced. To maintain it, leaders must continually earn it.
meaningful opportunity differences
To be a leader means, especially, having the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of those who permit leaders to lead.
growing cold growing-old
We cannot avoid growing old; but we can avoid growing cold.
successful organization choices
Everyone in a successful organization must be willing and ready to risk. Risk is like change; it's not a choice.
betrayal perspective leader
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.
jesus
We can go through anything because Jesus goes before us.
teamwork real team-work
Without forgiveness, there can be no real freedom to act within a group.
problem fixed generator
When things go awry, trust powers the generators until the problem is fixed.
pain leader share
Leaders don't inflict pain - they share pain.
leader legacy should
Leaders should leave behind them assets and a legacy.
leadership art belief
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do.
friendship running thinking
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.
position servanthood
Above all, leadership is a position of servanthood.
commitment opportunity leader
Leaders who keep promises and followers who respond in kind create an opportunity generate enormous energy around their commitment to serve others.