Twenty years from….

now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover

– Mark Twain

The best people…

…. 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

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

Good leadership…

… consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people

– John D. Rockefeller

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

He who has…

… never learned to obey cannot be a good commander

– Aristotle

The key to Leadership…

… is not knowledge but understanding.

– Paradigms of Leadership

Learning the secrets….

… and skill of great No.2s remains the surest path to becoming No. 1

— David Heenan and Warren Bennis