…….one person can be a change catalyst, a transformer in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.”
– Stephen R Covey
…….. a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.”
– Thomas J Watson Sr.
…… it seems to me, never say ‘I’. And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say ‘I’. They don’t think ‘I’. They think ‘we’; they think ‘team’. They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but ‘we’ gets the credit…. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.”
– Peter F Drucker
……. to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humour, but without folly.”
– Jim Rohn
……….that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on.”
– Walter Lippmann
……… is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes.
– John Abizaid
……… to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
– Thomas Carlyle
……. mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers. … Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.”
– Gary Wills
Certain Trumpets:The Call of Leaders
……. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers. We are tired of leaders we fear, tired of leaders we love, and of tired of leaders who let us take liberties with them. What we need for leaders are men of the heart who are so helpful that they, in effect, do away with the need of their jobs. But leaders like that are never out of a job, never out of followers. Strange as it sounds, great leaders gain authority by giving it away.”
— Admiral James B. Stockdale
….. having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you’re in control, they’re in control.
– Tom Landry
Leadership Licks 