The first step in becoming a leader, then, is to recognise the context for what it is – a breaker, not a maker; a trap, not a launching pad; an end, not a beginning and declare your independence.
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Tag Archives: Change
Treat people…
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Consensus…
Consensus… The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no one believes but to which no one objects. The process of avoiding the very issue to be solved merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: ‘I stand for consensus?’
– Margaret Thatcher
The future…
The future is not shaped by those who do not really believe in the future
– John Gardner
The real…
The real power of leaders is in the number of minds they can reach, hearts they can touch, souls they can move and lives they can change
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Leadership…
Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations
– Peter F Drucker
Make sure…
Make sure you’re not just waiting for someone else to fix things or hoping that things will improve.
Figure out what’s going on and make a plan to improve things
– Kenneth W. Thomas
Followers…
Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination
– Warren G Bennis
To look…
To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage
– Henri Matisse
If you…
If you don’t have an evolving growth strategy, then you and your team are just driving around the block. You may be doing well, but you’re not going anywhere.
– Shannon Byrne Susko
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