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 high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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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.
There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third read more
There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.
Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.
Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.
He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.
He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.
Leadership is the ability to hide your panic from others.
Leadership is the ability to hide your panic from others.
Leadership does not depend on being right.
Leadership does not depend on being right.
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of read more
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse read more
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him....But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, "We did it ourselves. Chinese proverb -Lao Tzu.
