Author Archives: Paradigms of Leadership

Good leaders…

… make people feel that they’re at the very heart of things, not at the periphery

– Warren G. Bennis

Don’t let…

…. schooling interfere with your education

– Mark Twain

He who…

cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader

– Aristotle

When you accept…

… a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others

– Kelley Armstrong

Of all sad…

… words of mouth or pen, the saddest are these: it might have been

– John Greenleaf Whittier

Taking charge of…

… your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person

– Warren G Bennis

In the end…

… it’s not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away

– Shing Xiong

Followership does not…

… mean changing the rank of followers but changing their response to their rank, their response to their superiors and to the situation at hand.”

— Barbara Kellerman

There is….

… no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can

– Henry Ford

A good leader….

… is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit

– John Maxwell