There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory.
– Mark Twain
Tag Archives: Leadership
Excellence….
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
– Warren G Bennis
Great things…
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them
– Warren G Bennis
Encourage dissent…
Encourage dissent: Leaders should have associates who have contrary views, who are devil’s advocates, “variance sensors” who can tell them the difference between what is expected and what is really happening, between what they want to hear and what they need to hear. There are too many naked emperors running around today.
– Warren G Bennis
If you….
If you cannot explain something simply, it means that you don’t understand it sufficiently
– Anon
Leadership…
Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
– Seth Godin
How much….
How much you can learn when you fail determines how far you will go into achieving your goals.
– Roy Bennett
The key……
The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The unfairness…
The unfairness of judging others comes in that we judge them on the basis of our own values and beliefs, yet we can never exactly stand on common ground.
– Archibald Marwizi
It is….
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
– Warren G Bennis
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