Author Archives: Paradigms of Leadership

Leadership and learning……

……. are indispensable to each other.

– John F Kennedy

The ultimate measure of a man….

…… is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times
of challenge and controversy.

– Martin Luther King, Jr

The growth and development…..

…… of people is the highest calling of leadership.

– Harvey S Firestone

“The best is he who calls men……

…… to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest.”

— Hesiod
8th Century BC Greek poet

Leadership is intangible……

……. and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

– Omar N Bradley

“When the conduct of men is designed…..

……. to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that a “drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.”

— Abraham Lincoln
February 22, 1842 in Temperance Address

“Your position never gives you…..

…….. the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others may receive your orders without being humiliated.”

— Dag Hammarskjöld

Leadership should be born out…..

………. of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.

– Marian Anderson

“Leader in its most important sense…..

……. means being the agent of your own life, influencing the things you care about most in the world to make it a richer life. ”

— Stewart Friedman

“If your actions inspire…..

……..others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

— John Quincy Adams