No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one be without the strategy.
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault not leadership.
Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.
Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry creativity entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And therefore you learn how to do it.
We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it no real success is possible no matter whether it is on a section gang a football field in an army or in an office.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.
Great companies in the way they work start with great leaders.
The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
Leaders grasp nettles.
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
Without initiative leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Leadership is diving for a loose ball getting the crowd involved getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.
Leadership is influence.
Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.
Example is leadership.
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others but far enough ahead to motivate them.
Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline carrying it out.
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.