… of leadership should be to improve the performance of man and machine, to improve quality, to increase output, and simultaneously to bring pride of workmanship to people. Put in a negative way, the aim of leadership is not merely to find and record failures of men, but to remove the causes of failure: to help people to do a better job with less effort.
– W Edwards Deming
… each day by telling myself what a positive influence I am on this world.
– Peter Daisyme
… man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions
– Confucius
… is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide
– Napoleon Bonaparte
… critical look is being taken at the issues of power and authority, and people are beginning to learn, however haltingly, to relate to one another in less coercive and more creatively supporting ways. A new moral principle is emerging, which holds that the only authority deserving of one’s allegiance is that which is freely and knowingly granted by the led to the leader in response to, and in proportion to, the clearly evident servant stature of the leader. Those who choose to follow this principle will not casually accept the authority of existing institutions. Rather, they will freely respond only to individuals who are chosen as leaders because they are proven and trusted as servants. To the extent that this principle prevails in the future, the only truly viable institutions will be those that are predominantly servant led.
– Robert Greenleaf
… can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.
– Steve Jobs
… sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
– Warren Buffett
… of the governed will be starved if not fed by the good deeds of the governors.
– Benjamin Franklin
… has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless… someone’s got to make a wake up call
– Warren Bennis
… must not be compelled. They must be able to choose their own leader.
– Albert Einstein
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