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Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow
The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass. She therefore makes sure she puts into the leadership position, into the standard-setting, the performance-making position the person who has the strength to do the outstanding pacesetting job. This always requires focus on the one strength of a person and dismissal of weaknesses as irrelevant unless they hamper the full deployment of the available strength.
A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be
Superior leaders get things done with very little motion. They impart instruction not through many words, but through a few deeds. They keep informed about everything but interfere hardly at all. They are catalysts, and though things would not get done as well if they were not there, when they succeed they take no credit. And, because they take no credit, credit never leaves them.
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
Good leaders must first become good servants.
One can lead a nation only by helping it see a bright outlook. A leader is a dealer in hope.
A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless... someone's got to make a wake up call.
The leader personifies the certitude of the creed and the defiance and grandeur of power. He articulates and justifies the resentment damned up in the souls of the frustrated. He kindles the vision of a breath-taking future so as to justify the sacrifice of a transitory present. He stages a world of make-believe so indispensable for the realization of self-sacrifice and united action.
Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity. When you delegate something to a subordinate, for example, it is absolutely your responsibility, and he must understand this. You as a leader must take complete responsibility for what the subordinate does. I once said, as a sort of wisecrack, that leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
A leader has to appear consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent.
The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.
How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a group.
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.
Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers. ... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.
To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!
The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
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