Leaders and Leadership |
The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.
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John Adair(British writer, teacher and adviser on leadership, Adair Leadership Foundation) |
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| A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.
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Ken Adelman(American journalist, former U.N. Ambassador) |
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| Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.
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Aeschylus(525-456 BC, Greek dramatist) |
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| Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.
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Norman Allen(American writer, recipient of a Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play) |
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| Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.
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Marian Anderson(1902-1993, American contralto concert and opera singer) |
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| The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.
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Marian Anderson(1902-1993, American contralto concert and opera singer) |
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| The deep rewards of giving go to those who give out of a concern for others, and take pains to see that their giving is wisely done, to meet real needs and seize promising opportunities.
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Emerson F. Andrews |
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| If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.
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Rabbi Ben Azai(Israeli rabbi) |
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| If there is any one axiom that I have tried to live up to in attempting to become successful in business, it is the fact that I have tried to surround myself with associates that know more about business than I do. This policy has always been very successful and is still working for me.
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Monte L. Bean |
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| A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.
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Joel A. Barker(American businessman, consultant, author) |
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| No man can persuade people to do what he wants them to do unless he genuinely likes people and believes that what he wants them to do is to their own advantage.
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Bruce Barton(1886-1967, American author, advertising expert) |
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| The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.
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Joe Batten |
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| Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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Warren G. Bennis(1925-, American psychologist, management educator, and consultant) |
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| Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.
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Warren G. Bennis(1925-, American psychologist, management educator, and consultant) |
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| Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.
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Warren G. Bennis(1925-, American psychologist, management educator, and consultant) |
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| The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
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Warren G. Bennis(1925-, American psychologist, management educator, and consultant) |
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| Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.
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Larry Bird(1956-, American basketball player, coach) |
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| A leader is a dealer in hope.
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Napoleon Bonaparte(1769-1821, French general, emperor) |
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| An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.
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Napoleon Bonaparte(1769-1821, French general, emperor) |
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| Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.
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Napoleon Bonaparte(1769-1821, French general, emperor) |
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| Men are lead by trifles.
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Napoleon Bonaparte(1769-1821, French general, emperor) |
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| When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.
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Napoleon Bonaparte(1769-1821, French general, emperor) |
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| Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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John Christian Bovee(1820-1904, American author, lawyer) |
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| There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Bertolt Brecht(1898-1956, German dramatist, poet) |
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| In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
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Edmund Burke(1729-1797, British political writer, statesman) |
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| When we think we lead we are most led.
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Lord Byron(1788-1824, British poet) |
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| The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.
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Mark Caine |
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| Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Thomas Carlyle(1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author) |
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| 'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
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Miguel De Cervantes(1547-1616, Spanish novelist, dramatist, poet) |
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| I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.
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Winston Churchill(1874-1965, British statesman, Prime Minister) |
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| The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
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Winston Churchill(1874-1965, British statesman, Prime Minister) |
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| Do not let a leader lead you on a bad path.
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Confucius(BC 551-479, Chinese ethical teacher, philosopher) |
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| If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?
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Confucius(BC 551-479, Chinese ethical teacher, philosopher) |
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| You can successfully force people to follow a certain course, but you cannot force them to understand it.
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Confucius(BC 551-479, Chinese ethical teacher, philosopher) |
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| A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
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James Crook |
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| Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.
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Max Depree(1924-, American furniture manufacturing company executive) |
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| Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Denis Diderot(1713-1784, French philosopher) |
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| Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
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Diogenes of Sinope(c.410-320 BC, Cynic philosopher) |
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| I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
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Benjamin Disraeli(1804-1881, British statesman, Prime Minister) |
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| No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.
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Benjamin Disraeli(1804-1881, British statesman, Prime Minister) |
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| The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd.
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R. S. Donnell |
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| 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.
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Peter F. Drucker(1909-, American-Austrian management consultant) |
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| Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Peter F. Drucker(1909-, American-Austrian management consultant) |
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| Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Peter F. Drucker(1909-, American-Austrian management consultant) |
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| Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.
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Wayne Dyer(1940-, American psychotherapist, author, lecturer) |
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| Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower(1890-1969, American President (34th)) |
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| Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower(1890-1969, American President (34th)) |
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| You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower(1890-1969, American President (34th)) |
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| Recognition is the greatest motivator.
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Gerard C. Ekedal |
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| To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
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Havelock Ellis(1859-1939, British psychologist) |
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