….. isn’t about power for the sake of power – not true leadership. Instead it deals with modeling behavior you want others to have, and with responsibility for being certain the people you lead are treated equitably, and with respect. Not an easy task. You can’t make other people feel anything, or think anything; you can only try to teach them what you want them to feel and think and why you think they should act accordingly
– Laura Weakley
… means to reach beyond the best you have ever given because doing so matters to you personally, for its own sake. It means to run your own race—as an individual, team, or organization. To excel is to know your greatest strengths and passions, and to emphasize them while honestly admitting and managing your weaknesses.
– Robert Cooper
… nothing like a concrete life plan to weigh you down. Because if you always have one eye on some future goal, you stop paying attention the the job at hand, miss opportunities that might arise, and stay fixedly on one path, even when a better, newer course might have opened up.
– Indra Nooyi
… can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them.
– Brandon Sanderson
… you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
… many elements to a campaign.Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
– Bernd Brecher
… as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
… and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.
– Harvey S. Firestone
… has to be able to change an organisation that is dreamless, soulless and visionless… someone’s got to make a wake up call.
– Warren Bennis
…make sure you get the bubbling up of ideas through a coalition of energy, rather the boiling down that consensus inevitably provokes? It’s about eliminating all the ordinary, in-between stuff that is no good. You have to cut it out and concentrate all the energy on stretching for the best. Then the really good stuff acts as a magnet for more. If you allow middling stuff to stay – the filler stuff – then that works as a magnet for more of the same too
– Siobhan Davies
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