Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
– Salvador Dali
Tag Archives: Leadership
Leadership is…
Leadership is the ability to establish standards and manage a creative climate where people are self-motivated toward the mastery of long term constructive goals, in a participatory environment of mutual respect, compatible with personal values.
– Mike Vance
Leave…
Leave your mark where others can only dream of going
– Anon
To build…
To build trust, a leader must exhibit competence, connection, and character.
– John C Maxwell
You can…
You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.
– Seth Godin
It is true…
It’s true that charisma can make a person stand out for a moment, but character sets a person apart for a lifetime. – John C Maxwell
Sometimes….
Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Some problems…
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well-informed just to be undecided about them
– Laurence Peter
Consensus…
Consensus: The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: ‘I stand for consensus?’
– Margaret Thatcher
Always…
Always do right. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
– Mark Twain
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