Quotes about Authentic Leadership

It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

None has more contempt for what it is to be a man than they who make it their profession to lead the crowd.

A leader, first and foremost, is human. Only when we have the strength to show our vulnerability can we truly lead.

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.

If we're going to be authentic in our leadership, we will have to be willing to serve, and we have to be willing to suffer.

We must acknowledge and reclaim our true size. Dignity is important. Self-respect. We cannot lead by pretending to be powerless. We're not. Age is power. Or it can be if it isn't distracted by shopping and cooking and trying to look nineteen.

Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends.

Lyle Schaller asserted, "The final thing leaders will need is courage … the willingness to tell the truth, to say what is not politely or politically acceptable. … The most common expression of the courage to tell the truth is to say, 'It ain't workin'.'"6

There was something punk rock about Bobby Kennedy not going where the pollsters said or where consultants said. He was unmoored from what was safe or easy.

It's better to be known as a puppet than pretend not to be a puppet like Nawaz Sharif.

'Lead with LUV' is the first book I've ever done that's just a pure conversation between my coauthor and me.

Like Diogenes, when millennials went on their pursuit to find the one honest man in politics, it was obvious that man was Bernie Sanders.

I don't want people to think I'm exploiting my followers.

People are tired of the same ol' garbage. They want people that are willing to speak out, speak up, be open and honest with them.

This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from consultant-directed puppet-boys.

Westerners know the difference between a talker and the real deal. If Rick Perry wasn't right to be governor of Texas, why should he be president?

The one thing you have to be careful of is trying to do what other teams and players are doing when you don't have the people to do it yourself.

The one thing that Pop taught me was to be myself.

Most Leadership is Greedership dressed up in sheeps' clothing pretending to care for humanity.

No great leader can be made by image-builders.

Communication opens the door to authenticity. A leader's presence affirms that what the leader says is an indication of what he or she believes. And when we sense that the leader means well, we will lend the leader our ears and will be inclined to follow his or her leadership.

When a leader demonstrates vulnerability, she enables three things to occur: approachability, likeability, and respectability.

Able leaders understand that nobody can really serve as an example by trying to do so. When we see an attempt to set an example, we suspect it is phony and not deeply rooted. People become real exemplars, trusted and looked up to, by being what they appear to be.

Real and true leader neither has a special status nor contradict others. If he keeps the distance in any way or shape If, he says things that don't exist If, he brings you in a destructive direction If he what promises, but do not keep his words If he put you naked in the sky, and himself in a comfortable tent If, he gives you, the false hopes rather than the practical helping He is just an opportunist, a cheater, and a liar, but not a leader.