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The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
If you lead on the people with correctness, who will dare not to be correct?
If you lead on the people with correctness, who will dare not to be correct?
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by read more
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them -- this is of the essence of leadership.
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the read more
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit read more
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.
Our Founding Fathers would shudder to see how easily forces outside the mainstream now seem to effortlessly push some Senate read more
Our Founding Fathers would shudder to see how easily forces outside the mainstream now seem to effortlessly push some Senate leaders toward conduct the American people don't want from their elected leaders: Abusing power. Inserting the government into our private lives. Injecting religion into debates about public policy. Jumping through hoops to ingratiate themselves to their party’s base, while step by step, day by day, real problems that keep American families up at night fall by the wayside here in Washington.
When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.
When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.
The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what read more
The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
