Category Archives: Leadership

“Leadership must be based on goodwill……

……. 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


Leadership is a matter of…..

….. having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you’re in control, they’re in control.

– Tom Landry

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