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Leadership is having a compelling vision, a comprehensive plan, relentless implementation, and talented people working together.
Management's job is to convey leadership's message in a compelling and inspiring way. Not just in meetings, but also by example.
The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold.
I was fascinated by a compelling character embroiled in a controversial topic that told the story from a different point of view.
Speaking passionately from the very center of who you are is compelling, forceful, persuasive: that’s what leadership sounds like.
I think good kids TV has got to have layers. It has to have compelling characters that everyone loves, but you can't dumb it down.
I am drawn more towards Russian films owing to their compelling camera work, because of my own inclination towards cinematography.
A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering.
The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever lived.
I am not a pacifist and I would back a lawful, coherent and compelling case for the use of military force by the U.K. against Isis.
Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.
What we need to do is run our business. We need to come up with a value prop that is so compelling that customers have to go for it.
What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.
I think, in a lot of ways, if you really strip down some of the most compelling novels, in a lot of ways, they're detective stories.
'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.
Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion.
Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts people can take more challenges.
The Arab Spring is a powerful and compelling response not only to an age of tyranny but also to the remnant chains of imperial influence.
People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
One thing Vince McMahon does, and he does a lot of things great, but he knows how to create great television, very compelling television.
Dramas are incredibly compelling. I feel like 'Silver Linings Playbook' is a drama, but because it's funny, people market it as a comedy.
It's easy to get rid of things when there is an obvious reason for doing so. It's much more difficult when there is no compelling reason.
I think the actor has two responsibilities. One is to be visually compelling, and the other to recite the lines as written by the writers.
Some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them. And that happens to be the case even with memories that are not true.
We believe content relationships are compelling draws even where paid-TV-provided guides are prevalent, such as here in the United States.
Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action a lot.
As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.
I really just choose stories that are compelling, have interesting trends and characters, and hopefully say something larger about society.
'The Dovekeepers' is a compelling, beautifully written novel that combines history and fiction into a timeless story of survival and heroism.
In the 1980s, Vietnam emerged in our culture as a legitimate and compelling topic for discussion rather than something to be hidden in shame.
I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.
It takes sometimes years in the market to get the tuning to the right place where your game is as compelling at level 100 as it was at level 10.
I was opposed to the U.S. involvement in Libya from the very start. President Obama has never made a compelling national security case on Libya.
I'd love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins, but if that doesn't happen, I'd sneak on to a film set and watch him at work. He is a compelling actor.
I find writing the darker side, writing tragedy, a lot easier than writing happiness. Happiness is just less psychologically compelling, isn't it?
Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.
Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.
Lisbeth Salander is one of the most compelling heroines of 21st century crime literature, and I am thrilled to see readers have welcomed her return.
I'll never have so compelling a figure within my embrace as Joan of Arc; there will never be a book whose last chapter is so very hard to get right.
When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.
There was no way that I could explain to dogs, friends, or parents my compelling need to return to Africa to launch a long-term study of the gorillas.
I was a reluctant convert, and I am by no means a zealot. But the evidence is compelling: to write off wind-power is either ill-informed or dishonest.
Anything that encourages a boy to open a book, in a world of more violent and therefore more compelling video games, is something I'm going to pay for.
All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
I was born into a world in which the most compelling stories are through film. But that wasn't always the case. Everything changes; everything evolves.
So to me it's very similar in terms of trying to distill within the image, those elements that are gonna form, hopefully, a compelling visual statement.
'Twin Peaks' is so phenomenal. And it worked because they struck the right tone: they brought intelligence to it, and the mystery itself was compelling.
I find the 1940s very compelling. It is a very excitable period in the U.S. when, whether out of necessity or not, everybody was reinventing themselves.
The best part of watching any show is that feeling of being sucked in. If I'm watching 'Breaking Bad,' there is something compelling about Walter White.