A poor leader will tell you how many people work for them. A great leader will tell you how many people they work for.
Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.
At the heart of great leadership is a curious mind, heart, and spirit.
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
Great leadership isn’t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they galvanize the wills of the willing; they draw clarity from the spigot of chaos.
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
Leadership is defined by results not attributes.
Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.
The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.
Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
Great leadership does not mean running away from reality. Sometimes the hard truths might just demoralize the company, but at other times sharing difficulties can inspire people to take action that will make the situation better.
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!
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