Author Archives: Paradigms of Leadership

Leadership……

…… is taken, not given.

– Louise Sterling & Sue Davidoff

Rely on your own…..

….. strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don’t take too much advice — keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.

– Noah Porter

The genius of……

………. a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

– Walter Lippmann

Leadership is ……

….. much less about what you do, and much more about who you are. If you view leadership as a bag of manipulative tricks or charismatic behaviours to advance your own personal interests, then people have every right to be cynical. But if your leadership flows first and foremost from inner character and integrity of ambition, then you can justly ask people to lend themselves to your organization and its mission.

– Jim Collins

To be a leader…….

…….. you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn’t know where he is going.

– Joe Namath

Great leaders are…..

……. not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.

– John Zenger & Joseph Folkman

Innovation……

……..distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

– Steve Jobs

To be a great leader…..

…… and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action.

– James Thomas

People buy into….

….. the leader before they buy into the vision.

– John C Maxwell