… As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence.
The next best, the people honor and praise.
The next, the people fear;
and the next, the people hate …
When the best leader’s work is done the people say,
“We did it ourselves!”
– Lao-tsu
… wait for leaders. Do it alone, person to person
– Mother Teresa
…. a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests
– Gail Sheehy
… the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it
– Warren G Bennis
…mark where others can only dream of going
– Anon
…the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute
– William Pollard
… not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership
– Bill Clinton
…fears to yourself but share your inspiration with others
– Robert Louis Stevenson
…. is the only competitive advantage that will endure. That’s because leadership has two sides – what a person is (character) and what a person does (competence)
– Stephen Covey
…. 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
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