Author Archives: Paradigms of Leadership

Need to know….

Need to know doesn’t hack it…. need to share does

– Anon

Too many….

Too many leaders act as if the sheep… their people… are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.

– Kenneth Blanchard

I never had…

I never had much faith in leaders. I am willing to be charged with almost anything, rather than to be charged with being a leader. I am suspicious of leaders, and especially of the intellectual variety. Give me the rank and file every day in the week. If you go to the city of Washington, and you examine the pages of the Congressional Directory, you will find that almost all of those corporation lawyers and cowardly politicians, members of Congress, and miss-representatives of the masses — you will find that almost all of them claim, in glowing terms, that they have risen from the ranks to places of eminence and distinction. I am very glad I cannot make that claim for myself. I would be ashamed to admit that I had risen from the ranks. When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.

– Eugene V Debs

 

Success is …

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which have been overcome while trying to succeed.

— Booker T. Washington

I am…

I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a “transformer” in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is the yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.

– Stephen R. Covey

We need to…

We need to accept that we don’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes. Understand that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.

– Arianna Huffington

Focus your life…

Focus your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little life of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realise your true potential.

– Barack Obama

Leadership….

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

– Jesse Jackson

Times of upheaval …

Times of upheaval require not just more leadership but more leaders. People at all organizational levels, whether anointed or self-appointed, must be empowered to share leadership responsibilities.

–  Rosalynn Carter

A good leader…

A good leader is not the person who does things right, but the person who finds the right things to do

– Anthony T. Dadovano