Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
– E.F. Schumacher
Category Archives: Leadership
Let’s…
Let’s get real, or let’s not play
– Mahan Khasla
If you…
If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
– Vincent Van Gogh
The greatest gift…
The greatest gift a leader can get is the gift of feedback. When someone takes the time to pause, reflect on what’s happened, and communicate back what they saw and heard, and how it made them feel and act – they have offered the greatest gift of all.
– Janeen Latini
Silence…
Silence – not dissent – is the one answer that leaders should refuse to accept.
– Warren G. Bennis
If knowing…
If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn’t be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.
– Warren G Bennis
A person…
A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader
– Fred Wilson
Leadership….
Leadership is not a starring role. True leadership describes the unified action of leaders and followers working together to jointly achieve mutual goals. It is collaborative.
– Gilbert Fairholm
Who succeeds…
Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.
– Warren G Bennis
The main characteristics…
The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humour, discipline, courage, self-sufficiency and confidence.
– James Fisher
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