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.

To lead the people, walk behind them.

To lead the people, walk behind them.

Leadership is not magnetic personality — that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends 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 high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

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 practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

The very essence of leadership is [that] you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly read more

The very essence of leadership is [that] you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Any leader who doesn't support the heart of evolving humanity is not a leader worthy of being followed.

Any leader who doesn't support the heart of evolving humanity is not a leader worthy of being followed.

Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing. -Mary D. Poole.

Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing. -Mary D. Poole.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of read more

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.