Quotes on Greatest Leadership

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.

The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.

A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.