Life’s most urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’
– Martin Luther King
Tag Archives: Integrity
If you…
If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be
– Maya Angelou
Authority….
Authority should be seen as a part of leadership, not as a way around it.
– Michael McKinney
Everyone…
Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.
– Nolan Bushnell
Need to know….
Need to know doesn’t hack it…. need to share does
– Anon
I never had…
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 miss-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
Leadership….
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
– Jesse Jackson
It is…
It is essential to employ, trust and reward those whose perspective, ability and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance and wisdom.
– Dee Hock
If….
If serving is below you then leadership is beyond you.
– Anon
Max DePree…
Max DePree popularised the idea that leadership is an art. So much of what a leader does cannot be objectively measured. To reduce leadership to a set of algorithms is to remove it from its context; to ignore the complexities, the contradictions, and the possibilities. Artists must deal with uncertainty, contradictions and diversity almost by definition. Leaders need to have this capacity.
– Michael McKinney
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