Author Archives: Paradigms of Leadership

Inaction…

…is not the antidote of fear

-Anon

The most…

…empowering thing you can do in your life is to know yourself

– Mindy Grossman

Keep…

… your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others

– Robert Louis Stevenson

Leaders must…

… be tough enough to fight, tender enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes, humble enough to admit them, strong enough to absorb the pain, and resilient enough to bounce back and keep on moving.

– Jesse Jackson

The pessimist….

… complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.

– John Maxwell

While it is…

…. essential for a leader to mobilize commitment to high performance at all levels of an organisation, it is equally essential for leaders to stimulate ‘performance anxiety’ and drive concerns about the status quo downward through the organisation.

– David Hunter

You see…

things and you say “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say “Why not?”

– George Bernard Shaw

The secret…

… of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests

– Gail Sheehy

To step…

… beyond the threshold of fear that lies within is the destiny of the leader.

– Paradigms of Leadership

Yes, there are times…

… when the gold medal only goes to the winner. But not in the race of life, where the winners are those who are superior not to others but to their former selves.

– Robert Cooper