Tag Archives: Creativity

If I am…

…not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?

– Rabbi Hillel

In times of…

…. change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

– Eric Hoffer

Contrary to…

… popular opinion, leadership is not a reserved position for a particular group of people who were elected or appointed, ordained or enthroned. Leadership is self-made, self-retained, self-inculcated and then exposed through a faithful, sincere and exemplary life.

– Israelmore Avivor

Leaders are not…

… as we are often led to think, people who go along with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see, whether anyone is following them. “Leadership qualities” are not the qualities that enable people to attract followers, but those that enable them to do without them. They include, at the very least, courage, endurance, patience, humor, flexibility, resourcefulness, stubbornness, a keen sense of reality, and the ability to keep a cool and clear head, even when things are going badly. True leaders, in short, do not make people into followers, but into other leaders.

– John Holt

You…

… can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start…you will.

– Stephen King

Too many companies…

… believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should they be. Effective leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do.

– Warren G Bennis

The final test…

… of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on

— Walter Lippmann

There are two…

… ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish

– Warren G. Bennis

Good leaders…

… make people feel that they’re at the very heart of things, not at the periphery

– Warren G. Bennis

Of all sad…

… words of mouth or pen, the saddest are these: it might have been

– John Greenleaf Whittier