Ted Kallman > Quotes

“The most important element of leadership effectiveness is authentically living the Vision of the company.  The values and ambitions of a company are not instilled entirely by what leaders say; they’re instilled primarily by what leaders do.  In a healthy company, there are no inconsistencies between what is said and what is believed deep down – the values come from within the leaders and imprint themselves on the organization through day-to-day activity.”
― Ted Kallman, The Nehemiah Effect: Ancient Wisdom from the World’s First Agile Projects

“The function of leadership – the number-one responsibility of a leader – is to catalyze a clear and shared vision for the organization and to secure commitment to and vigorous pursuit of that vision.  This is a universal requirement of leadership.”[11] Jim Collins”
― Ted Kallman, The Nehemiah Effect: Ancient Wisdom from the World’s First Agile Projects

“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”
― Ted Kallman, The Nehemiah Effect: Ancient Wisdom from the World’s First Agile Projects

“If everyone is speaking the same language, then it becomes easier to create a team where everyone is of the same mind.”
― Ted Kallman, The Nehemiah Effect: Ancient Wisdom from the World’s First Agile Projects

“It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system.  For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones.” Nicholi Machiavelli in The Prince 1513 A.D.”
― Ted Kallman, The Nehemiah Effect: Ancient Wisdom from the World’s First Agile Projects

“Aristotle describes achieving a state of high-performing Flow: “Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
― Ted Kallman, Flow: Get Everyone Moving in the Right Direction . . . and Loving It

“three mortal leadership sins (i.e. not walking the talk, leading from power and not authority and assuming agreement) that can derail even the most adept and agile of leaders. ”
― Ted Kallman, The Nehemiah Effect: Ancient Wisdom from the World’s First Agile Projects