Leader quotes

Octavia_E_Butler

Choose Your Leaders

“Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be lied to. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.”

• Source: Written by Octavia E. Butler in her book entitled “Parable of the Talents”. Chapter 11. First published by Seven Stories Press, New York, NY, in 1998. ISBN-13: 978-1-888363-81-4.

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  • Octavia_E_Butler_quotes
  • Octavia_E_Butler_quotes/Choose_Your_Leaders

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Forbes_Tech_Council

Business Requirements

“One of the reasons software projects fail is the lack of understanding of the business’ needs... Assigning a seasoned business leader to the project team is essential for success.”

• Source: From the magazine article “14 Common Reasons Software Projects Fail (And How To Avoid Them)” published 2020-03-31 by Forbes Magazine. Written by the Forbes Technology Council. Online at https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2020/03/31/14-common-reasons-software-projects-fail-and-how-to-avoid-them/, retrieved 2024.

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  • Forbes_Tech_Council_quotes
  • Forbes_Tech_Council_quotes/Business_Requirements

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Shoshana_Zuboff

Technology Leadership

“The questions that we face today are finally about leadership. Will there be leaders who are able to recognize the historical moment and the choices it presents? Will they find ways to create the organizational conditions in which new visions, new concepts, and a new language of workplace relations can emerge? Will they be able to create organizational innovations that can exploit the unique capacities of the new technology and thus mobilize their organization's productive potential to meet the heightened rigors of global competition? Will there be leaders who understand the crucial role that human beings from each organizational stratum can play in adding value to the production of goods and services? If not, we will be stranded in a new world with old solutions. We will suffer through the unintended consequences of change, because we have failed to understand this technology and how it differs from what came before.”

• Source: Zuboff, S. (1988). In The Age Of The Smart Machine: The Future Of Work And Power. New York, NY: Basic Books, p. 12. ISBN:0465032125.

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  • Shoshana_Zuboff_quotes
  • Shoshana_Zuboff_quotes/Technology_Leadership

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