Tag Archives: Success

Leadership is…

… a series of behaviours rather than a role for heroes.

– Margaret Wheatley

Simplicity, patience, compassion…

…These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world.

– Lao Tzu

We will remember…

… not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

– Martin Luther King Jr

Too many companies…

… believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should they be. Effective leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do.

– Warren G Bennis

A good head….

… and a good heart are always a formidable combination

– Nelson Mandela

The final test…

… of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on

— Walter Lippmann

Good leaders…

… make people feel that they’re at the very heart of things, not at the periphery

– Warren G. Bennis

Don’t let…

…. schooling interfere with your education

– Mark Twain

He who…

cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader

– Aristotle

Of all sad…

… words of mouth or pen, the saddest are these: it might have been

– John Greenleaf Whittier