….. a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
– Walter Lippmann
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Good leadership is…..
……. largely invisible. When everything runs smoothly, no one notices.
– Brian Herbert & Kevin Anderson
Real leadership is ….
……not about calling yourself “leader”; rather, it’s about taking up the cause to change some piece of the world for the better. Real leadership, in other words, is an extreme act rooted in love and motivated by a desire to create a better world–whether it’s the world of your company, team, neighbourhood, or family.
– Steve Farber & Matthew Kelly
If the experience ….
… of leadership is like being at the edge of an unfamiliar chasm, the act of leadership is building a bridge across that chasm.
– Kevin Cashman
Outstanding leaders……
…….. go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.
– Sam Walton
Leaders are creatures…..
…… of their environment, but unlike most creatures, they are also movers of it. As movers of and within the organization, they push it forward, at the same time shaping it as much as it shapes them.
– John Baldoni
Life is the leader’s…..
……laboratory, and exemplary leaders use it to conduct as many experiments as possible. Try, fail, learn. Try, fail, learn. Try, fail, learn. That’s the leader’s mantra. Leaders are learners. They learn from their failures as well as their successes, and they make it possible for others to do the same.
– James Kouzes & Barry Posner
Every age fraught with……
……. discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.
– Dan Simmons
Leadership is the ……
…… name that people use to make sense out of complex events and the outcomes of events they otherwise would not be able to explain. In other words, people attribute leadership to certain individuals who are called leaders because people want to believe that leaders cause things to happen rather than have to explain causality by understanding complex social forces or analyzing the dynamic interaction among people, events, and environment.
– Joseph C Rost
What chance gathers…..
…… she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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