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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The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence. -James read more
The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence. -James L. Fisher.
Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob
Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob
There is a sense of call to take leadership roles. You\'re serving people and submitting to God as best you read more
There is a sense of call to take leadership roles. You\'re serving people and submitting to God as best you can.
The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
A frightened captain makes a frightened crew.
A frightened captain makes a frightened crew.
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.
A leader may symbolize and express what is best in people, like Pericles, or what is worst, like Hitler, but read more
A leader may symbolize and express what is best in people, like Pericles, or what is worst, like Hitler, but he cannot successfully express what is only in his heart and not in theirs.
Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Manual read more
Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Manual on military leadership -Dwight D. Eisenhower.
