……laboratory, and exemplary leaders use it to conduct as many experiments as possible. Try, fail, learn. Try, fail, learn. Try, fail, learn. That’s the leader’s mantra. Leaders are learners. They learn from their failures as well as their successes, and they make it possible for others to do the same.
– James Kouzes & Barry Posner
…..best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who … 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
….. that the harder you fall…the higher you bounce!”
– J P Warren
…… deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
– Andrew Jackson
…….. where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
– Harold McAlindon
……. a responsibility to do what we can when it will make a difference.”
— Michael Useem, Leading Up
….. hasn’t found anything to die for, he isn’t fit to live.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
….. to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
……. the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.”
— Warren Bennis
……. a formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure- which is: try to please everybody.”
– Herbert Bayard Swope
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