The leader for today and the future will be focused on how to be - how to develop quality, character, mind-set, values, principles, and courage.
Interpretation
Effective leaders prioritize the development of their character and values over mere task accomplishment.
Frances Hesselbein emphasizes that true leadership extends beyond traditional measures of success; it involves cultivating personal qualities such as character, mindset, values, principles, and courage. Leaders who focus on these aspects are not only more effective but also inspire others to grow and thrive, which is essential for future success in an ever-evolving world.
In practice
In a leadership seminar to inspire future leaders.
When people are speaking, they require our undivided attention. We focus on them; we listen very carefully. We listen to the spoken words and the unspoken messages. This means looking directly at the person, eyes connected; we forget we have a watch, just focusing for that moment on that person.
It takes courage for a leader to identify and confront self-imposed barriers, to put in place the personal strategies required to unleash the energy, innovation, and commitment to self-development.
Women are working for part or all of their adult lives now. The possibilities are limitless, but you need to prepare.
The real leader redefines or defines the mission in a very powerful way so that people understand it; it permeates the organization.
Leadership is not a basket of tricks or strategies or skills that you pull out. Leadership begins with the quality of the person.
Social-sector organizations have to be better managed than for-profit organizations... because they have no margin of error.
The true minister is in his pulpit not because he has chosen that profession as an easy means of livelihood, but because he could not help it, because he has obeyed an imperious summons that will not be denied.
The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.
History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet, one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture.
We've got to figure out a way that we give a private sphere for our public leaders. We're not gonna get the best people in public life if we don't do that.
Of all the many leaders I have met in the course of my life, none made a deeper impression on me than Nelson Mandela. His courage, compassion, humility and wisdom were without parallel on the world stage, and he himself was an enduring source of inspiration.
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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