Author Archives: Paradigms of Leadership

Try….

…not to become a man of success but a man of value

– Albert Einstein

Leadership…

… consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint

– Lewis H. Lapham

Our deepest fear…

… is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others

-Marianne Williamson

It is…

the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen

– Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is what…

… we make of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another

– Nelson Mandela

In organisations….

… real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.

– Margaret Wheatly

Success is…

…… peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable

– John Wooden

When….

… you make it to the top, turn and reach down for the person behind you

– Abraham Lincoln

A leader’s…

… role is to raise people’s aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there

– David Gergen

 

The pigs….

… did not actually work, but directed and supervised the others. With their superior knowledge it was natural that they should assume the leadership

– George Orwell, Animal Farm