… who are lifting the world onward and upward are those who encourage more than they criticize
– Elizabeth Harrison
Tag Archives: Understanding
The pessimist….
… complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
– John Maxwell
What…
… we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world, is and remains immortal.
– Albert Pine
True leaders…
… are the first to admit that they don’t know everything and that they need help
– Bill Byrd
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
Because…
… things seems difficult to you, don’t think it is impossible for anyone to accomplish
– Marcus Aurelius
The superior…
… man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions
– Confucius
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
The reason…
…many leaders cannot distinguish the wood from the trees is that they have spent their lives planting forests.
– Paradigms of Leadership
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