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Leaders exhibit two essential characteristics, the willingness to confront adversity and a clearly articulated future preference.
In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealand's had a leadership role in a lot of things.
Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.
Leadership is not a basket of tricks or strategies or skills that you pull out. Leadership begins with the quality of the person.
Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title.
The more princes abstain from touching the wealth of their people, the greater will be their resources in the wants of the state.
I think you can measure how pathetic your life is by how much joy you get from learning about other people's faults and troubles.
Excellence is a signal to God that we are going to dig our ditches but if You don't make it rain, all of this is a waste of time.
For women to achieve equal representation in leadership roles, it's important that they have the backing of men as well as women.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
I'm no innovator. If anything I'm a stealer, or borrower. I've stolen or borrowed from more people than you can shake a stick at.
When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius
The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.
To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.
People who know what they want and why they want it, and have the skills to communicate that to others in a way that gains support
The more credible you are, the more confidence people place in you, thereby allowing you the privilege of influencing their lives.
Good leadership is pervasive, persuasive, and persistent. Bad leadership is poisoned with pedanticism, posturing, self-importance.
The only reason these kids keep score in these games is for the parents and coaches satisfaction. Who cares? They're 10 years old.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
There's a difference between making incremental improvements and making sweeping changes that take you away from your core values.
I very much believe in values-based leadership and that the values that I believe in and try to govern by are transcendent values.
I hired top-notch people, trusted them to do their jobs, and then came to grips with the fact that I wouldn't be coaching as much.
In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.
The function of a leader within any institution: to provide that regulation through his or her non-anxious, self-defined presence.
I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution.
Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.
He is a thermostat leader, not a thermometer...He does not react to the environment he's in. He changes every environment he's in.
As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
A 100 years from now the consequences for standing for Jesus will be greater than the consequences of not standing for Jesus today.
Mexican leadership has been doing serious damage to the United States by out-negotiating our representatives and political leaders.
It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.
It's the journey that matters. Learning is more important than the test. Practice well, and the games will take care of themselves.
I once said coaching a first-year team was a religious experience. You do a lot of praying - but most of the time the answer is NO.
I've swum for my country, I've swum for my coaches and my schools and my teams. I decided this time I was going to swim for myself.
Any leaders who disappoint the people, ideals and promises by which they were appointed are by definition themselves dis-appointed.
I have found success is ultimately realized by people who make more right choices . . . and recover quickly from their bad choices.
It is rare for people to say they want to be held accountable, but in reality, everyone wants everyone else to be held accountable.
Of bird and prophet and his light shall lead On through the darkness to eventual light, To undiscovered wealth, to newer need . . .
Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.
Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination, with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
Leadership is about stepping up when it's the appropriate time and then making sure everyone knows that we're all on the same page.
Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.
A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.
Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.