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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of read more
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing. -Mary D. Poole.
Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing. -Mary D. Poole.
Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob
Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob
Leadership is not magnetic personality-that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing read more
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.
Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon. read more
Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon. -James L. Fisher.
American philanthropic custom owes much to leadership by business and professional people. -Robert L. Payton.
American philanthropic custom owes much to leadership by business and professional people. -Robert L. Payton.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse read more
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him....But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, "We did it ourselves. Chinese proverb -Lao Tzu.
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. read more
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.