It's not hard work that wears you out, but the repression of your true personality, and I've found a way of working that does not demand that.

- Frances Hesselbein

Leadership is much less about what you do, and much more about who you are. If you view leadership as a bag of manipulative tricks or charismatic beh…

- Frances Hesselbein

Leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do it.

- Frances Hesselbein

The leader builds dispersed and diverse leadership - distributing leadership to the outermost edges of the circle to unleash the power of shared resp…

- Frances Hesselbein

Leadership is much less about what you do, and much more about who you are.

- Frances Hesselbein

Organizations exist to make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. And this is the work of effective leaders.

- Frances Hesselbein

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.

- Frances Hesselbein

When you see a roadblock or challenge as an opportunity, it is amazing how you are already halfway there.

- Frances Hesselbein

Communication is not saying something; communication is being heard.

- Frances Hesselbein