A Quote by John P. Kotter

A leader needs enough understanding to fashion an intelligent strategy.

John P. Kotter

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Enough Fashion Intelligent Leader Needs Strategy Understanding

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John P. Kotter
American - Educator
Born: February 25, 1947

A great leader needs to love and respect people, and he needs to be comfortable with himself and with the world. He also needs to be able to forgive himself and others. In other words, a leader needs grace.

Leo Hindery

With only 2 percent of the world's oil reserves, oil isn't enough. This country needs an all-out, all-of-the-above strategy that develops every available source of American energy. A strategy that's cleaner, cheaper, and full of new jobs.

Barack Obama

Just as a company needs a strategy to capture market share, a company needs a strategy to encourage actions that reflect their core values.

Neil Blumenthal

Modi failed miserably on most counts. He lacks the vision that a leader needs to possess and a strategy to achieve the vision and outcomes.

N. Chandrababu Naidu

I told myself that I would not come back to women's fashion until I felt I had something new to say. I feel that fashion has become too serious and that the actual customer's needs have not really been addressed. Fashion needs to make one happy. It is a luxury and should enhance one's quality of life.

Tom Ford

Intelligent Design is a remarkably uncreative theory that abandons the search for understanding at the very point where it is most needed. If Intelligent Design is really a science, then the burden is on its scientists to discover the mechanisms used by the Intelligent Designer. (80)

Michael Shermer

The world needs a true leader, an Obama that promotes peace and understanding in the world.

Hugo Chavez

How vast is eternity! - It will swallow up all the human race; it will collect all the intelligent universe; it will open scenes and prospects wide enough, great enough, and various enough to fix the attention, and absorb the minds of all intelligent beings forever.

Nathanael Emmons

A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.

Corrie Ten Boom

The living body is intelligent beyond our understanding; it is incomprehensibly intelligent.

Harvey Diamond

The new strategy is to teach intelligent design without calling it intelligent design.

Kenneth R. Miller

Moving fashion used to be one of my chief goals. It's not necessarily any more. Fashion needs to change when life changes. You only need to move fashion forward when there's a reason to move fashion forward.

Tom Ford

I started understanding that my strength is my gentleness. A leader isn't a dictator, a leader is a servant.

Tony Gaskins

You... are now servants to the ear that needs quiet solace, and the eye that needs the consolation of beauty, servants to the mind that needs desperate repose or pointed inquiry, to the heart that needs invitation to flight or silent understanding, and to the soul that needs safe landing, or fearless, relentless enlightenment.

Joyce DiDonato

Increasingly, corporations will look to advertising agencies for direction. Without an understanding of brand creation, messaging, and strategy, today's designers are destined to become the haidressers of tomorrow's creative environments-great for styling but light on strategy.