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At
one time or another, everyone chooses or is
asked to be a leader. With training and understanding,
we can all be better leaders when we are called
to be in a leadership position.
-- Robert Alan
Silverstein
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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
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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Whether
our task is fighting poverty, stemming the spread
of disease or saving innocent lives from mass
murder, we have seen that we cannot succeed without
the leadership of the strong and the engagement
of all.
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Cautious,
careful people, always casting about to preserve
their reputation and social standing, never can
bring about a reform. Those who are really in
earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing
in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately,
in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised
and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and
bear the consequences.
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Strong
people don't need strong leaders.
-- Ella Baker
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The
manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and
why.
-- Warren G. Bennis
Good
leaders make people feel that they're at the very
heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels
that he or she makes a difference to the success of
the organization. When that happens people feel centered
and that gives their work meaning.
-- Warren Bennis
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 G. Bennis
The
key to successful leadership today is influence, not
authority.
-- Kenneth Blanchard
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Leaders
should be collaborative, modest, and generous
-– Bill Bradley
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There
are many elements to a campaign.Leadership is number
one. Everything else is number two.
-- Bernd Brecher
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“People
learn to lead because they care about something.”
--
Charlotte
Bunch
“We
need women leaders. But we need them to have
a vision for something.”
--
Charlotte
Bunch
“Whether
there are innately female leadership styles...
is not really the right question. It is more
important to ask why there has been so little
attention paid to women leaders over the years
as well as why the styles of leading more often
exhibited by women are particularly useful at
this critical moment in history.”
-- Charlotte
Bunch
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A
leader must have the courage to act against an expert's
advice.
-- James Callaghan
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No
man will make a great leader who wants to do
it all himself or get all the credit for doing
it.
~ Andrew Carnegie
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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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Times
of upheaval require not just more leadership
but more leaders. People at all organizational
levels, whether anointed or self-appointed,
must be empowered to share leadership responsibilities.
-- Rosalynn
Carter
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Through
mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill,
and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders
on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities
for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual
benefit.
-- Chen Shui-bian
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It
is the responsibility of intellectuals to
speak the truth and expose lies.
-- Noam Chomsky
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A
good leader is not the person who does things right,
but the person who finds the right things to do.
-- Anthony T. Dadovano
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.
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Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition
of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible
signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately,
in its practice.
-- Max DePree
The
first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.
-- Max DePree
Every
successful leader must instill the vision of where
the organization is going and what is necessary to
attain that goal.
-- John Di Frances
The
six essential leadership attributes: set high standards;
live your standards and mentor those who follow; create
and share a vision; make the hard choices when necessary;
be visible and outfront; and instill hope in those
who follow.
-- John Di Frances
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Management
is doing things right; leadership is doing the
right things.
--
Peter F. Drucker
Effective
leadership is not about making speeches or being
liked; leadership is defined by results not
attributes.
-- Peter F.
Drucker
Leaders
grow; they are not made.
-- Peter F.
Drucker
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Checking
the results of a decision against its expectations
shows executives what their strengths are, where they
need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or
information.
--
Peter F. Drucker
No
institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses
or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in
such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership
composed of average human beings.
--
Peter F. Drucker
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
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
