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one time or another, everyone chooses or is asked to be a leader. With training
and understanding, we can all be better leaders when we are called to be in a
leadership position.
-- Robert
Alan |  |
If
your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more,
you are a leader.
-- John Quincy Adams
Leadership
should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected
by it.
-- Marian Anderson
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Whether
our task is fighting poverty, stemming the spread of disease or saving innocent
lives from mass murder, we have seen that we cannot succeed without the leadership
of the strong and the engagement of all.
-- Kofi
Annan |  |
Cautious, careful
people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing,
never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing
to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately,
in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and
their advocates, and bear the consequences.
-- Susan
B. Anthony | 
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Strong
people don't need strong leaders.
-- Ella
Baker |
The
manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
-- Warren G. Bennis
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.
-- Warren Bennis
The
most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born -- that there is a genetic
factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain
charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true.
Leaders are made rather than born.
-- Warren G. Bennis
The
key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
-- Kenneth
Blanchard
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Leaders
should be collaborative, modest, and generous
-– Bill
Bradley |
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There
are many elements to a campaign.Leadership is number one. Everything else is number
two.
-- Bernd Brecher
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“People
learn to lead because they care about something.”
--
Charlotte Bunch “We
need women leaders. But we need them to have a vision for something.”
--
Charlotte Bunch “Whether
there are innately female leadership styles... is not really the right question.
It is more important to ask why there has been so little attention paid to women
leaders over the years as well as why the styles of leading more often exhibited
by women are particularly useful at this critical moment in history.”
-- Charlotte Bunch
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A
leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.
-- James
Callaghan
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No
man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit
for doing it.
~ Andrew
Carnegie |
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people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily
want to go but ought to be.
-- Rosalynn
Carter *
Times
of upheaval require not just more leadership but more leaders. People at all organizational
levels, whether anointed or self-appointed, must be empowered to share leadership
responsibilities.
-- Rosalynn
Carter
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Through
mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad
views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for
peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.
-- Chen
Shui-bian |
It
is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.
-- Noam Chomsky |
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A good
leader is not the person who does things right, but the person who finds the right
things to do.
-- Anthony T. Dadovano
I never
had much faith in leaders. I am willing to be charged with almost anything, rather
than to be charged with being a leader. I am suspicious of leaders, and especially
of the intellectual variety. Give me the rank and file every day in the week.
If you go to the city of Washington, and you examine the pages of the Congressional
Directory, you will find that almost all of those corporation lawyers and cowardly
politicians, members of Congress, and mis-representatives of the masses -- you
will find that almost all of them claim, in glowing terms, that they have risen
from the ranks to places of eminence and distinction. I am very glad I cannot
make that claim for myself. I would be ashamed to admit that I had risen from
the ranks. When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.
-- Eugene V. Debs |
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Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set
of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately,
in its practice.
-- Max DePree
The
first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.
-- Max DePree
Every
successful leader must instill the vision of where the organization is going and
what is necessary to attain that goal.
-- John Di Frances
The
six essential leadership attributes: set high standards; live your standards and
mentor those who follow; create and share a vision; make the hard choices when
necessary; be visible and outfront; and instill hope in those who follow.
-- John Di Frances
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Management
is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
--
Peter F. Drucker Effective
leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined
by results not attributes.
-- Peter
F. Drucker Leaders
grow; they are not made.
-- Peter
F. Drucker |
Checking
the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their
strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.
-- Peter
F. Drucker
No
institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it.
It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership
composed of average human beings.
--
Peter F. Drucker
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
The
leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not
because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They
think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team
function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the
credit…. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.
-- Peter F. Drucker
