Managers…

… maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new

– Orrin Woodward

Leadership…

…..  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

In the…

… simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up and goes.”

– John Erskine

To excel…

… 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

There is…

… 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

A man…

… 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

If…

… 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

Tact…

…. is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt

– Orlando Battista

Don’t be….

…afraid to fail…. be afraid not to try

– Anon

There are….

… many elements to a campaign.Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

– Bernd Brecher