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Leaders goal: Avoid building around only ONE person's ministry gifting. Longevity is in a team, not an individual!
Paddy Ashdown is the only party leader who's a trained killer. Although, to be fair, Mrs Thatcher was self taught.
No one could become an efficient leader or take the initiative in any great undertaking without belief in himself.
People trust those leaders who show real results of their work, rather than those who just talk about the results.
One of the early lessons that I learned in leadership is that it's the leader's job to always go against the flow.
Any leader who asks the right questions of the right people has the potential to discover and develop great ideas.
The only possibility in the United States for a humane society would be a revolution with Elvis Presley as leader.
As a leader, you will receive a large amount of praise and criticism and you should not unduly affected by either.
There are some among the so-called elite who are overbearing and arrogant. I want to foster leaders, not elitists.
That's one of the real dangers of leader selection in many organizations: leaders are selected for overconfidence.
The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.
It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.
For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.
The United States has to be a leader in the world, because the problem is: If we are not leading, nobody else will.
A leader, first and foremost, is human. Only when we have the strength to show our vulnerability can we truly lead.
The prime minister is not a private individual, but the leader of the Jewish State and the Jewish world as a whole.
For any new leader of any party at any given time it takes time if you are not in government to establish yourself.
Great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism and courage to act.
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
People seem to forget that Saddam was the only leader in the world who praised the attacks of 9/11 as a good thing.
All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.
I constantly signal to the Iraqi leaders that our patience, or the patience of the American people, is running out.
The leader of Iran made one of the most repugnant remarks the international community has heard since Adolf Hitler.
When I'm talking to my teammates, being the vocal leader, going up and down, pushing everyone, they tend to follow.
If you really want to be a successful leader, you must develop other leaders around you. You must establish a team.
There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.
The Big Lie is a major untruth uttered frequently by leaders as a means of duping and controlling the constituency.
Leaders must attend to one key growth question: How authentically am I showing up in the world and my organization?
Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
It is important that the Muslim leaders, scholars, and intellectuals are much more vocal and explain what Islam is.
A good leader is someone who knows what he's bad at, and hires someone who's good at it to take care of it for him.
Rowing is such a fine sport. Everyone goes backward, and the leader can see his opponents as they struggle in vain.
Women are not just victims; they are survivors and leaders on the community-level backlines of peace and stability.
My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.
If NATO goes in and solves the crisis in Darfur, when the next one comes along Africa's leaders will just sit back.
Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.
Every time an Arab leader truly wanted peace, they got it. If the Palestinians truly want peace, we will make peace.
To return to higher standards of living we must abandon the false prophets and seek new leaders of our own choosing.
Our politicians screw up all the time, as we see. But with so many things, we're no longer the world leader in that.
In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.
Learning to be an effective leader is no different than learning to be an effective person. And that's the hard part
The more a leader is in the habit of demanding from his men, the surer he will be that his demands will be answered.
Political leaders can help change the psychological climate which affects the quality of relationships among people.
Effective leaders allow God to shape them into the kind of people they need to be for each situation they encounter.
Don’t strive to be a well-rounded leader. Instead, discover your zone and stay there. Then delegate everything else.
I see Intershop as a leader in the E-commerce digital economy and believe the company has truly long-term potential.
No leader, however great a personality he may be, is as important to a people as their own intellectual development.