Occupation: Writer Birth: October 28, 1924
We can choose to see life as a series of trials and tribulations, or we can choose to see life as an accumulation of treasures..
In addition to all of the ratios and goals and parameters and bottom lines, it is fundamental that leaders endorse a concept of persons. This begins….
Jazz, like leadership, combines the unpredictability of the future with the gifts of individuals..
Innovation is the lifeblood of an organization. Knowing how to lead and work with creative people requires knowledge and action that often goes again….
Change without continuity is chaos. Continuity without change is sloth-and very risky..
Leaders don't inflict pain - they share pain..
The leader is the servant who removes the obstacles that prevent people from doing their jobs..
The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do ….
By ourselves we suffer serious limitations. Together we can be something wonderful..
Understanding and accepting diversity enables us to see that each of us is needed.. It also enables us to begin to think about being abandoned to the….
In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are..
We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give a….
Trust grows when people see leaders translate their personal integrity into organizational fidelity. At the heart of fidelity lies truth-telling and ….
There may be no single thing more important in our efforts to achieve meaningful work and fulfilling relationships than to learn to practice the art ….
We talk about the quality of product and service. What about the quality of our relationships and the quality of our communications and the quality o….
We do not grow by knowing all of the answers, but rather by living with the questions..
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do..
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality..
We can teach ourselves to see things the way they ARE. Only with vision can we begin to see things the way they CAN BE..
Leaders should be able to Stand Alone, Take the Heat, Bear the Pain, Tell the Truth, and Do What's Right.
Leadership is liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and humane way possible..