…. possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed
– Ernest Hemingway
Author Archives: Paradigms of Leadership
A competent leader…
… can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralise the best of troops
– John J Pershing
The ability to…
… make hard truths palatable is one that every long-lived co-leader has mastered
— David Heenan and Warren Bennis
If I had to…
… reduce the responsibilities of a good follower to a single rule, it would be to speak truth to power
– Warren Bennis
Let him who…
… would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
– Thomas Carlyle
Your first and…
… foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you
– Peter Drucker
Two roads diverged…
….. in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference
– Robert Frost
Good leadership…
… consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people
– John D. Rockefeller
Taking charge of….
He who has…
… never learned to obey cannot be a good commander
– Aristotle
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