A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader
– Fred Wilson
Tag Archives: Influence
Who succeeds…
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
Whether…
Whether there are innately female leadership styles… is not really the right question. It is more important to ask why there has been so little attention paid to women leaders over the years as well as why the styles of leading more often exhibited by women are particularly useful at this critical moment in history.
– Charlotte Bunch
Shift…
Shift the emphasis from saying the right things to asking the right questions.
– Linda Edgecombe
I never…
I never had much faith in leaders. I am willing to be charged with almost anything, rather than to be charged with being a leader. I am suspicious of leaders, and especially of the intellectual variety. Give me the rank and file every day in the week. If you go to the city of Washington, and you examine the pages of the Congressional Directory, you will find that almost all of those corporation lawyers and cowardly politicians, members of Congress, and mis-representatives of the masses — you will find that almost all of them claim, in glowing terms, that they have risen from the ranks to places of eminence and distinction. I am very glad I cannot make that claim for myself. I would be ashamed to admit that I had risen from the ranks. When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.
– Eugene V. Debs
A great person…
A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
If you…
If you cannot allow people to do their jobs … nobody with substance and creativity will work for you.
– Condoleezza Rice
It is…
It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.
– Noam Chomsky
I always…
I always remember the axiom: a leader…is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind
– Nelson Mandela
When…
When I’m getting ready to persuade a man, I spend one-third of the time thinking about myself, what I’m going to say and two-thirds of the time thinking about him and what he is going to say.
– Abraham Lincoln
Leadership Licks 