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Unlock Your Leadership: Secrets Straight Answers on Standing Out, Moving Up, and Getting Ahead as the Leader You Really Are QUOTES

1 " Yes, a senior vice president is very different from a first-time team supervisor, but in the marrow, leadership is leadership is leadership. And no matter the hierarchical levels of the leaders I studied, I found that leadership in hiding—leadership the theys couldn’t see—was perceived as leadership in absence. It "

― Damaris Patterson Price , Unlock Your Leadership: Secrets Straight Answers on Standing Out, Moving Up, and Getting Ahead as the Leader You Really Are

2 " Management or not, no matter what the next-level role is or what your organization calls it, it is a step into a higher degree of leadership. That’s the first lesson. To be promotable, you must be seen as a leader. Period. Full stop. "

― Damaris Patterson Price , Unlock Your Leadership: Secrets Straight Answers on Standing Out, Moving Up, and Getting Ahead as the Leader You Really Are

3 " Yes, a senior vice president is very different from a first-time team supervisor, but in the marrow, leadership is leadership is leadership. And no matter the hierarchical levels of the leaders I studied, I found that leadership in hiding—leadership the theys couldn’t see—was perceived as leadership in absence. "

― Damaris Patterson Price , Unlock Your Leadership: Secrets Straight Answers on Standing Out, Moving Up, and Getting Ahead as the Leader You Really Are

4 " Management—or the oversight of people, processes, and production—is just one function of some leaders. Organizations hope their managers will lead, but to be a leader, you need not have a management title because leadership is something else entirely. Leadership is not married to hierarchy, an organizational chart, or formal authority over a team. It’s a different animal, with more depth, breadth, and impact. I’ve known people who were little more than the boss of the applesauce, and yet they proved to be outstanding leaders. And I’ve known some vice presidents, executives, and Grand Poobahs—all with high-powered management titles, and not one of them could lead themselves, or anyone else, around a corner. "

― Damaris Patterson Price , Unlock Your Leadership: Secrets Straight Answers on Standing Out, Moving Up, and Getting Ahead as the Leader You Really Are