… As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence.
The next best, the people honor and praise.
The next, the people fear;
and the next, the people hate …
When the best leader’s work is done the people say,
“We did it ourselves!”
– Lao-tsu
… not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership
– Bill Clinton
…. is the only competitive advantage that will endure. That’s because leadership has two sides – what a person is (character) and what a person does (competence)
– Stephen Covey
…. 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
… of the governed will be starved if not fed by the good deeds of the governors
– Benjamin Franklin
…. make people feel that they’re at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning
– Warren Bennis
… influences and not instigates, be one who is pure and not prejudiced with focus on your character and not just charisma, with focus on truth and not just talent, and you will see how lives are impacted
– Annu Ratha
… that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership
– John Kotter
….. power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both
– Vaclav Havel
of the past… is a doer; of the present, a planner; of the future, a teacher. Their job is to develop capabilities; not to plan the company’s actions but to increase its capacity to act, its responsiveness, and its repertoire…. This kind of leader doesn’t need to know everything; on the contrary, they will want to be surrounded by people who know a whole lot more but trust them to weigh their competing claims
– Thomas A. Stewart.
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