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 high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.
Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.
Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will read more
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says, 'I was beaten'; he does not say 'My men were read more
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says, 'I was beaten'; he does not say 'My men were beaten.'.
Sunwands turn rain droplets
into blackberry drupelets
as enkindled okra seeds
acknowledge heliocracy.
Sunwands turn rain droplets
into blackberry drupelets
as enkindled okra seeds
acknowledge heliocracy.
