What leaders have in common is that each really knows their strengths, has developed their strengths, and can call on the right strength at the right time.
Interpretation
Effective leaders understand and utilize their strengths appropriately.
This quote emphasizes the importance of self-awareness in leadership. A successful leader recognizes their unique strengths, continuously hones those strengths, and applies the most relevant one to the situation at hand, ensuring effective decision-making and guidance for their team.
In practice
During a leadership conference to emphasize the importance of self-awareness.
From this point of view, to avoid your strengths and to focus on your weaknesses isn't a sign of diligent humility. It is almost irresponsible. By contrast the most responsible, the most challenging, and, in the sense of being true to yourself, the most honorable thing to do is face up to the strength potential inherent in your talents and then find ways to realize it.
I believe that it is essential to our leadership in the world and to the development of true democracy in our country to have no discrimination in our country whatsoever. This is most important in the schools of our country.
My way of getting the best from people on a set is to notice their work, to make every prop master, every seamstress, part of 'The Newsroom' or 'The West Wing' or 'Steve Jobs.'
Our words, actions, and diplomatic efforts should be aimed at trying to achieve pragmatic goals rather than creating rhetorical effect.
Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.
I never dreamed about one day becoming Secretary of State. It's not that I was modest; it's just that I had never seen a Secretary of State in a skirt.
The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.
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