|
|
|
Great
leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut
through
argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody
can understand.
-Colin
Powell
|
| |
|
Leadership
is not so much about technique and methods as it is about
opening the heart. Leadership is about inspiration—of
oneself and of
others. Great leadership is about human experiences,
not processes.
Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human
activity that
comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others.
It is an attitude, not a routine.
-Lance
Secretan
|
| |
| I
suppose leadership at one time meant muscles;
but today it means getting along with people.
-Mohandas
Gandhi |
| |
|
Leadership
is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be a glib
tongue.
It is not "making friends and influencing people",
that is flattery. Leadership is
lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a
person's performance
to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond
its normal limitations.
-Peter
F. Drucker
|
| |
|
If
your actions inspire others to
dream
more, learn more, do
more and
become more,
you are a leader. -John Quincy Adams |
| |
| Humans
are ambitious and rational and proud. And we don't
fall in line with people who don't respect us and who we
don't believe have our best interests at heart. We are
willing to follow leaders, but only to the extent that we
believe they call on our best, not our worst.
-Rachel
Maddow |
|
|
|
To
lead people, walk beside them . . . As for the best leaders,
the people do not
notice their existence. The next best, the people
honor and praise.
The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate . .
. When the best
leader's work is done the people say, "We did it
ourselves!" -Lao
Tzu |
| |
| Leadership must be based on goodwill.
Goodwill does not mean posturing and,
least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious
and wholehearted commitment
to helping followers. We are tired of leaders we fear,
tired of leaders we love,
and of tired of leaders who let us take liberties with
them. What we need for leaders
are people of the heart who are so helpful that they, in
effect, do away with the need
of their jobs. But leaders like that are never out of
a job, never out of followers.
Strange as it sounds, great leaders gain authority by giving
it away. -James B. Stockdale |
| |
| Before
you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself.
When you become a leader, success is all about growing
others. -Jack
Welch |
| |
| Most
important, leaders can
conceive
and articulate goals
that lift people
out of their petty preoccupations and
unite
them in pursuit of objectives
worthy of their best efforts.
-John
Gardner |
| |
| The
most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born--that
there is
a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that
people simply either
have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense;
in fact, the
opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
-Warren
G. Bennis |
| |
| A
leader takes people where they want to go. A great
leader takes people
where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be.
-Rosalynn
Carter |
| |
|
|
| |
| 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 |
| |
I never had much faith in leaders. I am
willing to be charged with almost anything,
rather than to be charged with being a leader. I am
suspicious of leaders, and especially
of the intellectual variety. Give me the rank and file
every day in the week. If you go
to the city of Washington, and you examine the pages of the
Congressional Directory,
you will find that almost all of those corporation lawyers
and cowardly politicians,
members of Congress, and mis-representatives of the
masses--you will find that almost
all of them claim, in glowing terms, that they have risen
from the ranks to places of
eminence and distinction. I am very glad I cannot make
that claim for myself. I would
be ashamed to admit that I had risen from the ranks.
When I rise it will be
with the ranks, and not from the ranks.
-Eugene V. Debs |
| |
| The task of leaders is to get their people
from
where they are to where they have not been.
-Henry Kissinger |
| |
| Leaders are more powerful role models when
they learn than when they teach.
-Rosabeth Moss Kantor |
| |
| Leadership means not giving orders
to others,
but giving of yourself.
-East African Tribal Proverb |
| |
| Divorced from ethics, leadership is
reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
-James MacGregor Burns |
|
|
|
Free
Daily Quotations!
You
can receive a free daily email with two inspiring quotations
by signing up here. And don't worry--we don't share
any email addresses with anyone, for any reason.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Leaders
can never close the gap between themselves and the group. If
they do, they are no longer what they must be. They must
walk a tightrope between the consent they must win and the control
they must exert.
-Vince Lombardi |
| |
| A leader must
have the courage to act against an expert's advice.
-James Callaghan |
| |
| I cannot trust one to control
others who cannot control him or herself.
-Robert E. Lee |
| |
| The
real leader has no need to lead--he or she is content to point the
way. -Henry Miller |
| |
| Leadership
is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
-Harold S. Geneen |
| |
Leadership
should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who
would be affected by it.
-Marian Anderson |
| |
| The final test of leaders is
that they leave behind them in other people the conviction and the
will to carry on. The genius of good leaders is to leave
behind them situations which common sense, with the grace of
genius, can deal with successfully.
-Walter Lippman |
| |
| The
people who are worthy of being leaders of others will never
complain about the stupidity of their helpers, the ingratitude of
human beings, or the inappreciation of the public. They are
all a part of the great game of life. To meet them and
overcome them and not go down before them in disgust,
discouragement, or defeat, that is the final proof of
power. -William Boetcher |
| |
I am convinced
that any feeling of exaltation because we have people under us
should be conquered, for I am sure that if we enjoy being over
people, there will be something in our manner which will make them
dislike being under us.
Mary Parker Follett
Leaders and followers are both following the invisible leader--the
common purpose. |
| |
Be
a Leader
Dale
Carnegie
A leader's job often includes changing your people's
attitudes and behavior. Some suggestions to
accomplish this:
Principle 1
Begin with praise and honest appreciation.
Principle 2
Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly.
Principle 3
Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other
person.
Principle 4
Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.
Principle 5
Let the other person save face.
Principle 6
Praise the slightest improvement and praise every
improvement. Be "hearty in your approbation and
lavish in your praise."
Principle 7
Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to.
Principle 8
Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to
correct.
Principle 9
Make the other person happy about doing the things you
suggest. |
|
| |
|
|
| |
| People
ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader
works in the open, and the boss is covert. The leader leads,
and the boss drives. -Theodore Roosevelt |
| |
| Leaders who
know their strengths and weaknesses as leaders are likely to be
far more effective that the ones who remain blind to them.
They are also on the road to humility--that priceless attitude of
openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes,
failures, or personal shortcomings. -John
Adair |
| |
| Leaders create an environment
in which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches
their potential capabilities and for which an equitable
differential reward is provided. -Elliott
Jaques |
| |
|
Home - About -
Links
- abundance - acceptance
- achievement - action
- adversity - advertising
- aging
ambition -
America
- anger - anticipation
- apathy - appreciation -
arrogance
- art - attitude - authenticity
autumn - awakening
- awareness -
awe
- balance -
beauty - being yourself - beliefs
- body - brooding
busyness - caring
- celebration - challenges - change
- character - charity
- children -
choice -
Christianity
Christmas -
coincidence
- commitment - common sense
- community - comparison -
compassion
competition
- complaining -
compliments
- compromise -
confidence
- conformity
- conscience - contentment
control - cooperation
- courage -
covetousness - creativity -
crisis -
criticism - cruelty - death
- decisions
desire
-
determination - disappointment - discipline
- discouragement - diversity - doubt -
dreams - earth
education -
ego - emotions - encouragement -
enlightenment -
enthusiasm
- envy -
eternity
- ethics - example
exercise
- experience - failure -
faith - fame - family -
fate - fathers - fault-finding
- fear - feelings
- flowers
forgiveness -
freedom
-
friendship
- frustration - fun - the future - the
garden of life - gardening - generosity
gentleness - giving
-
goals - God - goodness -
grace - gratitude -
greatness - greed
-
grief
- growing up - guilt
habit
- happiness -
hatred - healing -
health - heart -
helpfulness - home - honesty -
hope - hospitality
humility -
hurry - ideals
- identity - idleness -
idolatry - ignorance
- illusion - imagination -
impatience
independence - individuality - inner
child - inspiration -
integrity - intimacy
-
introspection - intuition
jealousy
- journey - joy -
judgment - karma - kindness - knowledge - language
- laughter -
law of attraction
laziness -
leadership - learning - letting go -
life -
listening
- loneliness
- love - lying - magic
- marriage
materialism - meanness -
meditation -
mindfulness - miracles
- mistakes - mistrust-
moderation - money
mothers - motivation - music
- mystery - Native American wisdom
- nature - negative attitude -
new year
oneness
- open mindedness - opportunity -
optimism - pain
- parenting - passion
-
the past - patience - peace
perfectionism - perseverance -
perspective -
pessimism - play - poetry
- positive thinking - possessions
potential - poverty - power
- praise - prayer
- prejudice -
the present moment - pride -
principle - problems
progress
- prosperity - purpose -
reading - recreation
- reflection -
relationships - religion - reputation
resentment -
respect
- responsibility - rest -
revenge - risk - role models -
running - ruts - sadness -
safety
the seasons of life
-
self - self-love -
self-pity - self-reliance
- self-respect
- selfishness - service -
shame
silence - simplicity
-
slowing down
- smiles -
solitude - sorrow - spirit - spring
-
stories - strength
success - suffering
- summer -
talent - the tapestry of
life
- teachers - teaching
- Thanksgiving
- thoughts
time -
today - tolerance
- tradition - trees
- trust
-
truth - values - vanity
- virtue - vulnerability - walking
war - wealth - weight - winter -
wisdom
- women -
wonder
- work - worry -
worship
- youth -
Zen
Dale Carnegie - Albert Einstein - Ralph
Waldo Emerson - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross -
Helen Keller - Mother
Teresa - Eleanor Roosevelt
Orison
Swett Marden - Albert Schweitzer - Aristotle
-
Mohandas Gandhi - Wilferd
A. Peterson
|
|
|
|
|
| |
