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Leadership means not giving orders
to others,
but giving of yourself.
East African Tribal Proverb |
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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.
Peter F. Drucker
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Humans
are ambitious and rational and proud. And we don't
fall in line with people who don't respect us and who we
don't believe have our best interests at heart. We are
willing to follow leaders, but only to the extent that we
believe they call on our best, not our worst.
Rachel
Maddow
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Leaders are more powerful role models when
they learn than when they teach.
Rosabeth Moss Kantor
Divorced from ethics, leadership is
reduced to
management and politics to mere technique.
James MacGregor Burns
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Before
you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself.
When you become a leader, success is all about growing
others.
Jack
Welch
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I
suppose leadership at one time meant muscles;
but today it means getting along with people.
Mohandas
Gandhi
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Good
leaders must first become good servants.
Robert
Greenleaf
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Most
important, leaders can
conceive
and articulate goals
that lift people
out of their petty preoccupations and
unite
them in pursuit of objectives
worthy of their best efforts.
John
Gardner
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If
your actions inspire others to
dream
more, learn more, do
more and
become more,
you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams |
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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.
Rosalynn
Carter
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Leaders create an environment in which
everyone has the
opportunity to do work which matches their potential
capabilities
and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.
Elliott Jaques |
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Leaders
who know their strengths and weaknesses as leaders are
likely to be far more effective that the ones who remain
blind to them.
They are also on the road to humility--that priceless
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openness to life that can help a manager absorb
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People
ask the difference between a leader and a boss.
The leader works in the open, and the boss is covert.
The leader leads, and the boss drives.
Theodore Roosevelt |
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The
most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born--that
there is
a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that
people simply either
have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense;
in fact, the
opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
Warren
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The task of leaders is to get their people
from
where they are to where they have not been.
Henry Kissinger
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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!"
Lao-Tzu
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Leadership must be based on goodwill.
Goodwill does not mean posturing and,
least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious
and wholehearted commitment
to helping followers. We are tired of leaders we fear,
tired of leaders we love,
and tired of leaders who let us take liberties with
them. What we need for leaders
are people of the heart who are so helpful that they, in
effect, do away with the need
of their jobs. But leaders like that are never out of
a job, never out of followers.
Strange as it sounds, great leaders gain authority by giving
it away.
James B. Stockdale |
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Great
leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut
through
argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody
can understand.
Colin
Powell
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Leadership
is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be a glib
tongue.
It is not "making friends and influencing people",
that is flattery. Leadership is
lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a
person's performance
to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond
its normal limitations.
Peter
F. Drucker
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Leadership
is not so much about technique and methods as it is about
opening the heart. Leadership is about inspiration—of
oneself and of
others. Great leadership is about human experiences,
not processes.
Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human
activity that
comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others.
It is an attitude, not a routine.
Lance
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I never had much faith in leaders. I am
willing to be charged with almost anything,
rather than to be charged with being a leader. I am
suspicious of leaders, and especially
of the intellectual variety. Give me the rank and file
every day in the week. If you go
to the city of Washington, and you examine the pages of the
Congressional Directory,
you will find that almost all of those corporation lawyers
and cowardly politicians,
members of Congress, and mis-representatives of the
masses--you will find that almost
all of them claim, in glowing terms, that they have risen
from the ranks to places of
eminence and distinction. I am very glad I cannot make
that claim for myself. I would
be ashamed to admit that I had risen from the ranks.
When I rise it will be
with the ranks, and not from the ranks.
Eugene V. Debs |
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Be
a Leader
Dale Carnegie
A leader's job often includes changing your people's
attitudes and behavior. Some suggestions to
accomplish this:
Principle 1
Begin with praise and honest appreciation.
Principle 2
Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly.
Principle 3
Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the
other person.
Principle 4
Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.
Principle 5
Let the other person save face.
Principle 6
Praise the slightest improvement and praise every
improvement. Be "hearty in your
approbation and lavish in your praise."
Principle 7
Give the other person a fine reputation to live up
to.
Principle 8
Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to
correct.
Principle 9
Make the other person happy about doing the things
you suggest.
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I am
convinced that any feeling of exaltation because we have
people
under us should be conquered, for I am sure that if we enjoy
being
over people, there will be something in our manner which
will make
them dislike being under us.
Mary Parker Follett
Leaders and followers are both following the invisible
leader--
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The people who are worthy of being
leaders of
others will never
complain
about the stupidity of their helpers, the
ingratitude of human beings,
or
the inappreciation of the
public. They are all a part of the great game
of life. To
meet them and overcome them and not go down before them
in disgust,
discouragement, or defeat, that is the final
proof of power.
William Boetcher |
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The final test of leaders is that they
leave behind them in other
people the conviction and the will to carry on. The
genius of
good leaders is to leave behind them situations which common
sense, with the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
Walter Lippman |
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Leadership
should be born out of the understanding of the needs
of those who would be affected by it.
Marian Anderson |
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Leadership
is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in
actions.
Harold S. Geneen |
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The
real leader has no need to lead--he or she is content to
point the way.
Henry Miller |
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leadership
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I cannot trust one to control others who
cannot control him or herself.
Robert E. Lee |
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A
leader must have the courage to act against an expert's
advice.
James Callaghan |
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Leaders
can never close the gap between themselves and the group.
If they do, they are no longer what they must be. They
must walk
a tightrope between the consent they must win
and the control they must exert.
Vince Lombardi |
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