… that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership
– John Kotter
Author Archives: Paradigms of Leadership
The exercise of…
….. power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both
– Vaclav Havel
Big thinking….
…. precedes great achievement
– Wilfred Peterson
The leader….
of the past… is a doer; of the present, a planner; of the future, a teacher. Their job is to develop capabilities; not to plan the company’s actions but to increase its capacity to act, its responsiveness, and its repertoire…. This kind of leader doesn’t need to know everything; on the contrary, they will want to be surrounded by people who know a whole lot more but trust them to weigh their competing claims
– Thomas A. Stewart.
Some men…
… see things as they are and say, “Why?” I dream of things that never were and say, ‘Why not?’”
– George Bernard Shaw
No person…
…. can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him
– W. A. Nance
Service is…
… a limitless opportunity, it is the reason why we breathe.
– Michelle Obama
Leaders who…
… win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they can deliver.
– Mark Clement
Leaders…
…make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.
– Lance Morrow
Our business…
… in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves
– E. Joseph Cossman
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