Quotes about Authentic Leadership

Authentic Christian leaders boast in weakness, not strength.

if your heart is not right, no one cares about your leadership skills.

Leaders goal: Don't be afraid of vulnerability & transparency, (without being pitiful). People respond to authenticity.

honest, focused, positive, and authentic

A leader whose speech is prepared by others is not a leader; he is just an empty and stupid bottle! Use your own ideas and your own brain; write your own speech, just like Gandhi, Churchill or Nehru! That is indeed a good ethics and a good honour!

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.

Leia, only weak leaders never admit to mistakes. Strong leaders don't need to pretend to be infallible.

Above all else, know that good leaders always define their own reality. No one else can build a discipling culture for you—it must begin in your own life and then overflow into the lives of those you lead. You will not be the perfect example, but you can be a living example.

True leadership must begin within the heart and then you can take it to the mental level.

Regardless of what we think we're teaching, we teach what we are.

People are more likely to listen to sermons you preach if they are also sermons you practice.

If the only thing that you are good at is convincing others that you are good, then being in biz with you is bad experience.

Leaders dig into their business to learn painful realities rather than peaceful illusion.

?nsanlar yalan söylerken ciddi bir yüz tak?n?rlar. Bugünkü yöneticilerimizin ciddiyeti gibi!

The power for authentic leadership, Havel tells us, is found not in external arrangements but in the human heart.

The secret to understanding me is, I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. People want candid, refreshing leadership. And I've always tried to go with solutions. You know, I've always tried to say, here's how we get our economy growing, here's why we get our debt under control. That's what Mitt Romney is offering.

So practice and observe everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.

He who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory, but He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is a man of truth; in Him there is no falsehood.

But as for the highly esteemed—whatever they were makes no difference to me; God does not show favoritism—those leaders added nothing to me.