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
leadership responsibility reality
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.
learning grace followers
The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?
humane-way people liberating
Leadership is liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and humane way possible.
integrity essentials demonstration
Integrity in all things precedes all else. The open demonstration of integrity is essential.
effort promise genuine
Trust comes only with genuine effort, never with a lick and a promise.
effective-listening listening-to-others leader
In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch-that is, who should be listened to and when.
friendship dog alliances
We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us.
motivational followers outstanding
The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers.
leader
Trust cannot be bought or commanded, inherited or enforced. To maintain it, leaders must continually earn it.
problem fixed generator
When things go awry, trust powers the generators until the problem is fixed.
leader legacy should
Leaders should leave behind them assets and a legacy.
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.
remaining wisdom
We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.