Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.
– Deepak Chopra
If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
– Vincent Van Gogh
All organisations are perfectly designed to get the results they are now getting.
If we want different results, we must change the way we do things.
– Tom Northup
A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs
– Robert Townsend
Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary. – Warren G. Bennis
If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.
– David Ogilvy
The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of like is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give.
– William Arthur Ward
You can be a leader without confronting your personal shadows. But walking through them creates the light to be a great leader.
– Erik Sean Larson
Who succeeds in forming and leading a great group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.
– Warren G. Bennis
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