If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
I can't give you the sunset, but I can give you the night.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
By declaring yourself a leader, you're taking initiative and moving into a role of influence in a lively and vital network that's changing the world. We're changing the world, first by changing ourselves and then by touching the world as changed beings. We believe the change in us catalyzes change in others. So in changing the world, we're choosing to be the change we wish to see in the world. By taking on this leadership role, you are choosing to be the change too.
It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.
I try to work hard. I try to set a good example. I don't look at it as though I've got to be a leader. I just try to behave the way I think I should behave. If that results in a leadership role, great.
When you accept a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others.
Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.
If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.
I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.
After the Shah's departure from Iran, I will not become a president nor accept any other leadership role. Just like before, I limit my activities only to guiding and directing the people.
Often truly authoritative leadership falls on someone who years earlier dedicated themselves to practice the discipline of seeking first the kingdom of God. Then, as that person matures, God confers a leadership role, and the Spirit of God goes to work through him.
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