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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.
You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
Leadership is not magnetic personality — that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends 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 high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
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.
A leader may symbolize and express what is best in people, like Pericles, or what is worst, like Hitler, but read more
A leader may symbolize and express what is best in people, like Pericles, or what is worst, like Hitler, but he cannot successfully express what is only in his heart and not in theirs.
Leadership is the ability to hide your panic from others.
Leadership is the ability to hide your panic from others.
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.
Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of read more
Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement.
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.