Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality..

Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth..

Leadership is like beauty - it's hard to define but you know it when you see it..

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work..

The new leader is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change..

One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing..

All of great leaders evidence four basic qualities that are central to their ability to lead: adaptive capacity, the ability to engage others through….

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 ….

Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination..

Every one of the geezers who continues to play a leadership role has one quality of overriding importance: neotony. The dictionary definition is that….

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….

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right..

Charisma is the result of effective leadership, not the other way around..

In life, change is inevitable. In business, change is vital..

Emotional intelligence, more than any other factor, more than I.Q. or expertise, accounts for 85% to 90% of success at work... I.Q. is a threshold co….

Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders..

A leader is someone whose actions have the most profound consequences on other people's lives, for better or worse, sometime forever and ever..

In the face of ambiguity, uncertainty, and conflicting demands, often under great time pressure, leaders must make decisions and take effective actio….

All great leaders constantly seek new information and new ways of thinking..

Leaders must earn the trust of their teams, their organizations, and their stakeholders before attempting to engage their support..

Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character.