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It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.
The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.
Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.
I think leadership is more than just being able to cross the t's and dot the i's. It's about character and integrity and work ethic.
Winning companies win because they have good leaders who nurture the development of other leaders at all levels of the organization.
We can't have two standards, one set for the dedicated young men who want to do something ambitious and one set for those who don't.
One key to successful leadership is continuous personal change. Personal change is a reflection of our inner growth and empowerment.
A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences.
As with any skill, you have to work at leadership. Watch how the best do it, review what you've done, and look at what you might do.
Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
The nature of the leadership spirit is the inherent desire of all mankind to control and regulate both environment and circumstance.
Don't just stand back and play the way you're coached. A great player must rise to the occasion and turn the game around on his own.
Leaders have two characteristics: first they are going somewhere, and second they are able to persuade other people to go with them.
Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.
A great opportunity is often hard to be explained clearly; things that can be explained clearly are often not the best opportunities.
If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.
You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles... Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
To me I think leadership is activism. It's giving back to your community, it's investing in oneself, and you know women and children.
Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.
The best companies will build culturally diverse leadership teams and workforces with divergent backgrounds, perspectives, and ideas.
There's a special place in hell for what some people have done but there's also a special place in God's heart for their forgiveness.
If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates', then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.
Change isn't always bad; we should always be learning and improving. But the change I was seeing involved principles, not procedures.
...in my book success and winning are not always the same thing. To me, success is playing - or working - to the best of your ability.
One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.
I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.
It takes a lot of people to create a success. That's why I say that few leaders are successful unless a lot of people want them to be.
We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
Sin regardless of how you get there is a vulnerable and a dangerous place to be. Living in unforgiveness is living in an unsafe place.
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.
One is too small a number to achieve greatness. No accomplishment of real value has ever been achieved by a human being working alone.
A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.
Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.
Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock." - Frankenstein p115
Character creates consistency, and if your people know what they can expect from you, they will continue to look to you for leadership.
One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like to see that change by walking the walk.
It isn't effective or productive to force your employees to do anything. Choice empowers people and makes for a more content workforce.
Firms that draw commitment from customers and staff give them a way to sign up for something that can allow them to be their best self.
The leader is the organization's top strategist... systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.
We've found that service learning builds life skills, leadership and a sense of global citizenship that makes helping a lifelong habit.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
My job is to teach them to believe they could perform better than they realize. Great coaches teach athletes to go beyond the barriers.
Every relationship in your organization will affect you one way or another. Those who do not increase you will inevitably decrease you.
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.