“Leadership is the challenge……

…… to be something more than average.”

– Jim Rohn

“Relational skills are…..

…… the most important abilities in leadership.”

– John Maxwell

“Good leadership requires……

……….you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.”

– Doris Kearns Goodwin

“It’s time to care;…..

……. it’s time to take responsibility; it’s time to lead; it’s time for a change; it’s time to be true to our greatest self; it’s time to stop blaming others.”

– Steve Maraboli

“A leader takes people……

……. where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.”

– Rosalynn Carter

“It is a curious thing…..

“…… Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.”

– J K Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“You are not here merely…..

….. to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”

– Woodrow Wilson

“A pessimist sees…..

…the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty”

– Winston Churchill

No one will….

…be buried with the epitaph ‘He maximised shareholder value’

– Kay 2011

“Humans will probably always need…..

…….. the help of especially gifted moral leaders in order to extend the bonds of caring and trust beyond the easy range of the family and the face-to-face community. Such bonds have become essential to the future of humanity.”

– Paul Lawrence