Leadership

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Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future. Engagement may have been optional in the past, but it's pretty much the whole game today.
Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
Simplicity is an indispensable element of a leader's most important functions.

Speech (November 1989)
The leader's unending responsibility must be to remove every detour, every barrier to ensure that vision is first clear, and then real.

Speech (November 1989)
It is ours to win with � if we can shift gears from decades of controlling things to a decade of liberty � turning people loose to dream, dare, and win.

Leaders (1993)
My #1 job here at Apple is to make sure that the top 100 people are A+ players. And everything else will take care of itself. If the top 50 people are right, it just cascades down throughout the whole organization.

Quoted in 'Steve's Two Jobs,' Time (Michael Krantz; October 18, 1999)
Passionate leadership won't succeed if contradictory signals are sent out.

Speech (September 1996)
Leadership is all hype. We've had three great leaders in this century: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.

Fortune (February 1994)
Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
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