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Chris Lowney QUOTES

Chris Lowney QUOTES

1 " Healthy individuals focus their energies where they can exert positive influence; they don't squander energy in fruitless lament over what they cannot control or change. "

― Chris Lowney , Make Today Matter: 10 Habits for a Better Life (and World)

2 " What distinguishes love-driven leaders from tyrants? "Great affection" coupled with the passion to see others "run at full speed towards perfection." Love-driven leadership is not urging others forward without concern for their aspirations, well-being, or personal needs. Nor is it being the nice-guy manager who overlooks underperformance that could damage a subordinate's long-term prospects. Instead, love-driven leaders hunger to see latent potential blossom and to help it happen. In more prosaic terms, when do children, students, athletes, or employees achieve their full potential? When they're parented, taught, coached, or managed by those who engender trust, provide support and encouragement, uncover potential, and set high standards. "

― Chris Lowney , Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed the World

3 " Everyone is a leader, and everyone is leading all the time-sometimes in immediate, dramatic, and obvious ways, more often in subtle, hard-to-measure ways, but leading nonetheless. "

― Chris Lowney , Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed the World

4 " Leaders make themselves and others comfortable in a changing world. They eagerly explore new ideas, approaches, and cultures rather than shrink defensively from what lurks around life's next corner. Anchored by nonnegotiable principles and values, they cultivate the "indifference" that allows them to adapt confidently. "

― Chris Lowney , Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed the World

5 " al liderazgo lo definen no solo la magnitud de la oportunidad sino también la calidad de la respuesta. "

― Chris Lowney , Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed the World

6 " La medida de su grandeza personal no es tanto lo que encontraron al final del camino sino más bien la fortaleza de carácter que los acompañó a lo largo del mismo: su imaginación, voluntad, perseverancia, valor, recursos y decisión de arrostrar el peligro del fracaso. "

― Chris Lowney , Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed the World

7 " The measure of their personal greatness is less what they found at journey's end and more the depth of human character that carried them along the way: their imagination, will, perseverance, courage, resourcefulness, and willingness to bear the risk of failure. "

― Chris Lowney , Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed the World

8 " In other words, speed, innovation, and global focus happen only when lots of delegated authority sits alongside lots of centralized authority. "

― Chris Lowney , Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed the World

9 " The urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy. "

― Chris Lowney , Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed the World

10 " When Nadal told trainees that for men on a journey, the whole world would become their house, he was encouraging far more than mobility alone. He was pronouncing a fundamentally hopeful, optimistic, adventurous, and even playful outlook. Leaders with a "whole world is our house" attitude eagerly look forward to what lies around life's next bend. Ingenuity rests on the conviction that most problems have solutions, and that imagination, perseverance, and openness to new ideas will uncover them. "

― Chris Lowney , Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed the World

11 " First. Love ought to manifest itself more by deeds than by words. "

― Chris Lowney , Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed the World

12 " la gran cantidad de elecciones que debemos hacer, junto con su complejidad, ha minado nuestra habilidad para escoger bien; "

― Chris Lowney , Heroic Living: Discover Your Purpose and Change the World

13 " all leadership begins with self-leadership. "

― Chris Lowney , Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed the World

14 " LIFO "

― Chris Lowney , Pope Francis: Why He Leads the Way He Leads

15 " Los líderes imaginan un futuro inspirador y se esfuerzan por darle forma, en vez de permanecer pasivos a la espera de lo que traiga el futuro. Los héroes sacan oro de lo que tienen a mano en lugar de esperar a tener en la mano oportunidades de oro. "

― Chris Lowney , Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed the World

16 " En nuestra vida profesional tenemos que tomar decisiones difíciles, obtener resultados que nos permitan avanzar en nuestras carreras, y adaptarnos a un mundo en constante cambio. Pero también debemos lograr vivir con serenidad y armonía, y encontrar un sentido profundo para nuestra existencia. El camino para lograrlo –nos dice Chris Lowney en Vivir heroicamente, sobre la base de su experiencia como jesuita y como hombre de negocios– no es el de la mezquindad y el egoísmo (que impiden ver que somos algo más que individuos aislados) sino el de los valores y el compromiso que permiten integrar cada una de nuestras acciones con un sentido humano profundo, transformador y, además, productivo. "

― Chris Lowney , Heroic Living: Discover Your Purpose and Change the World

17 " Los ejecutivos actuales viven con menos claridad y ninguna certeza a largo plazo; los competidores, los clientes e incluso las principales líneas de productos pueden cambiar radicalmente en pocos años. Como resultado, las compañías y sus ejecutivos deben hacerse hoy preguntas que en otro tiempo hubieran parecido estúpidas y poco plausibles: ¿quiénes somos?, ¿qué estamos tratando de lograr? "

― Chris Lowney , Heroic Living: Discover Your Purpose and Change the World

18 " A la edad de 38 años y en el atardecer de una vida promedio en el siglo xvi, por su trayectoria Loyola no ofrecía ningún potencial de líder: fracasó en dos carreras, fue arrestado dos veces, tuvo múltiples choques con el Santo Oficio y otras autoridades, y carecía de dinero. No tenía a su haber ninguna realización, ninguna perspectiva clara, nada de seguidores y ningún plan. "

― Chris Lowney , Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed the World

19 " Un mundo implacablemente cambiante nos fuerza no solo a adaptarnos y a ser flexibles, sino a confrontar preguntas fundamentales sobre nuestra identidad. "

― Chris Lowney , Heroic Living: Discover Your Purpose and Change the World

20 " Ahora las preguntas claves son más profundas y más retadoras: ¿quién soy? ¿Para qué estoy en este mundo? ¿Qué tipo de persona voy a ser? Es posible que yo desempeñe muchos trabajos durante mi carrera, pero a medida que paso de uno a otro –incluso de una compañía o profesión a otra–, ¿qué queda? Quedo yo. "

― Chris Lowney , Heroic Living: Discover Your Purpose and Change the World