……….you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.”
– Doris Kearns Goodwin
Tag Archives: Values
“It’s time to care;…..
……. it’s time to take responsibility; it’s time to lead; it’s time for a change; it’s time to be true to our greatest self; it’s time to stop blaming others.”
– Steve Maraboli
“The greatest leader is……
……. not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”
– Ronald Reagan
“A leader. . .
…..is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.”
– Nelson Mandela
“It is a curious thing…..
“…… Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.”
– J K Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“Leaders are not, …..
…… as we are often led to think, people who go along with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see, whether anyone is following them. “Leadership qualities” are not the qualities that enable people to attract followers, but those that enable them to do without them. They include, at the very least, courage, endurance, patience, humour, flexibility, resourcefulness, stubbornness, a keen sense of reality, and the ability to keep a cool and clear head, even when things are going badly. True leaders, in short, do not make people into followers, but into other leaders.”
– John Holt
No one will….
…be buried with the epitaph ‘He maximised shareholder value’
– Kay 2011
It is better to lead from behind…..
…….. and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
– Nelson Mandela
I am endlessly fascinated…..
……. that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn’t.
– Dee Dee Myers
“The leaders who work most effectively……
…….. it seems to me, never say ‘I’. And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say ‘I’. They don’t think ‘I’. They think ‘we’; they think ‘team’. They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but ‘we’ gets the credit…. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.”
– Peter F. Drucker
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