Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it. -Marian read more

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it. -Marian Anderson.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead read more

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says, 'I was beaten'; he does not say 'My men were read more

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says, 'I was beaten'; he does not say 'My men were beaten.'.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

it is much safer to obey than to rule.

it is much safer to obey than to rule.

You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.

You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.

No organization is stronger than the quality of its leadership, or ever extends its constituency far beyond the degree to read more

No organization is stronger than the quality of its leadership, or ever extends its constituency far beyond the degree to which its leadership is representative. -Edgar Powell.

Leadership is not magnetic personality-that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing read more

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.

Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These read more

Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.