It is absolutely necessary for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.
– George Washington
Author Archives: Paradigms of Leadership
Leaders…
Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present, and keep the promise to posterity
– Harold Seymour
Success…
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
– Winston Churchill
Every man…
Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
– Charles De Gaulle
Most of the…
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
– Dale Carnegie
If …
If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer.
– Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare
Don’t judge…
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Charisma…
Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change.
– Peter Drucker
Whether our task…
Whether our task is fighting poverty, stemming the spread of disease or saving innocent lives from mass murder, we have seen that we cannot succeed without the leadership of the strong and the engagement of all.
– Kofi Annan
Just as…
Just as the real basics of human nature do not change from one generation to another, so the real basics of human leadership do not change from one leader to another – from one field to the next – but remain always and everywhere the same.
– William Holler
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