Top 25 Frances Hesselbein Quotes

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I always had this philosophy that only the best is good

I always had this philosophy that only the best is good enough for those who serve girls.
Frances Hesselbein
Management is the set of skills that can help get things done. Unfortunately, its practice is too often a bag of manipulative tricks to advance someone’s own interests, which creates cynicism.
Frances Hesselbein
In my life, I don’t have roadblocks and obstacles. I might have something you would call a ‘challenge.’ I throw that out the window, and I call that a wonderful opportunity.
Frances Hesselbein
It takes courage for a leader to identify and confront self-imposed barriers, to put in place the personal strategies required to unleash the energy, innovation, and commitment to self-development.
Frances Hesselbein
Practice self-awareness, self-evaluation, and self-improvement. If we are aware that our manners – language, behavior, and actions – are measured against our values and principles, we are able to more easily embody the philosophy, leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do.
Frances Hesselbein
Leadership is not a basket of tricks or strategies or skills that you pull out. Leadership begins with the quality of the person.
Frances Hesselbein
When I choose what I do, I ask, ‘Does it make a difference?’
Frances Hesselbein
In 1976, I was invited to interview for the CEO position of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A.
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Some corporations are extremely well managed; some nonprofit organizations are. It has nothing to do with the sector. It has to do with quality of management.
Frances Hesselbein
Simple questions can be profound, and answering them requires us to make stark and honest – and sometimes painful – self-assessments.
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Leadership flows from inner character and integrity of ambition, which inspires others to lend themselves to your organization’s mission.
Frances Hesselbein
Move beyond the old assumptions, practices, and language that can be barriers to equal access.
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It is what we do with our lives that counts.
Frances Hesselbein
It is not business, it is not government – it is the social sector that may yet save the society.
Frances Hesselbein
Leadership is a matter of how to be – not how to do it.
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We are increasingly becoming a pluralistic nation.
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When it comes to communicating change at any time, the mission must be clear, and it must inspire.
Frances Hesselbein
We do not know what lies ahead, yet whatever the challenge, leaders will rise, finding the heart, the language, the caring that embraces and sustains.
Frances Hesselbein
Tears belong within the family.
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Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers cannot compete in a highly competitive world.
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Donors do not reward good intentions.
Frances Hesselbein
The Millennial mindset is one on the pulse of changing technology. They multi-task and enjoy a challenge. They need projects that utilize their knowledge and skills that can connect with their philosophical or deeper interests.
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I thought I’d never leave Pennsylvania. And I never imagined that I’d one day have the chance to lead the largest organization for girls and women around the world.
Frances Hesselbein
I lost my son in late 2011. He had been totally incapacitated from his neck down for the last eight years of his life, but his mind was alive and brilliant in those years. He even wrote a book, ‘Allegheny Mountain,’ lying at home in his hospital bed.
Frances Hesselbein
When people are speaking, they require our undivided attention. We focus on them; we listen very carefully. We listen to the spoken words and the unspoken messages. This means looking directly at the person, eyes connected; we forget we have a watch, just focusing for that moment on that person.
Frances Hesselbein