Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas?
– Margaret Thatcher
Tag Archives: Values
Leadership….
Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure
– Admiral Arleigh Burke,
Days are…
Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.
– Jim Rohn
If you believe…
If you believe that the lack of authority prevents you from leading effectively, it is time to rethink your understanding of leadership.
– Mike Bonem and Roger Patterson
The true mark…
The true mark of a leader is the willingness to stick with a bold course of action — an unconventional business strategy, a unique product development roadmap, a controversial marketing campaign — even as the rest of the world wonders why you’re not marching in step with the status quo. In other words, real leaders are happy to zig while others zag. They understand that in an era of hyper-competition and non-stop disruption, the only way to stand out from the crowd is to stand for something special.
– William Taylor
No leader…
No leader sets out to be a leader. People set out to live their lives, expressing themselves fully. When that expression is of value, they become leaders. So the point is not to become a leader. The point is to become yourself, to use yourself completely – all your skills, gifts and energies – in order to make your vision manifest. You must withhold nothing. You, must, in sum, become the person you started out to be and to enjoy the process of becoming.
– Warren G Bennis
Leadership is…
Leadership is the ability to establish standards and manage a creative climate where people are self-motivated toward the mastery of long term constructive goals, in a participatory environment of mutual respect, compatible with personal values.
– Mike Vance
To build…
To build trust, a leader must exhibit competence, connection, and character.
– John C Maxwell
Consensus…
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
Widespread…
Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should, therefore, be a talent for understanding, encouraging and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.
– Carl Sagan
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