Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
Benjamin DisraeliRead
If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events.
Interpretation
Leadership requires careful observation of events and situations.
This quote highlights the importance of being observant and aware of the events occurring in one's surroundings as a crucial skill for a leader. A good leader must analyze situations, understand the dynamics at play, and respond appropriately to guide and inspire others effectively.
In practice
During a workshop on leadership, this quote can be introduced to emphasize the role of observation in effective leadership.
Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
I propose not our enemies as an example for our general imitation, yet, as their navy is the best regulated of any in the world, we must, in some degree, imitate them and aim at such farther improvement as may one day make ours vie with - and exceed - theirs.
When you're at the lower levels in the organization, you need to win and be right. But as you move up, you need to let other people win and be right, and become a manager and delegate responsibility.
We're not a fragile people. We're not a frightful people. Our power doesn't come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don't look to be ruled.
Never ask your employees to do something you wouldn't be willing to do yourself.
Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.
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