Quotes About Leadership

Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Eighty Years and More: 1815–1898, Reminiscences of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Indy Publishing, 2004

Eknath Easwaran. Gandhi the Man. Nilgiri Press: Novales, California, 1997

Louis Fischer. Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World. Signet Classics: New York, 2010

Laurie Calkhoven. Harriet Tubman: Leading the Way to Freedom. Sterling Books: New York, 2008

Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom. Back Bay Books: New York, 2004

Laurie Calkhoven. Harriet Tubman: Leading the Way to Freedom. Sterling: New York, 2008

I must concentrate all of my energies on the enfranchisement of my own sex! She had named and claimed her calling. Here is concentration of purpose. This declaration, as we shall see, unified her energy in extraordinary ways.

Geoffrey C. Ward. Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony—An Illustrated History. Knopf: New York, 1999.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Right Is Ours. Oxford University Press: USA, 2001

Lynn Sherr. Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words. Times Books: Toronto, 1995

Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.

Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.

Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic

Despite their inglorious end, the legions remain to this day, thousands of years after their creation, the most pre-eminent example of how detailed organization, tight discipline, and inspiring leadership can take a group of individuals and turn them into a winning team.

Innovation that happens from the top down tends to be orderly but dumb. Innovation that happens from the bottom up tends to be chaotic but smart.

If you are thinking about Agile as a set of tools and processes, you're looking for the wrong thing. You can't go to the store and "buy some Agile management.

The premise of Agile management is that empowering bottom-up innovation will steadily add significant value for customers and the firm.

Leadership is essentially a task of persuasion—of winning people's minds and hearts.

I asked Carlson what he did in those early years to get people's buy-in. Carlson says he included everyone but he worked mainly with the early adopters. "You never get a 100 percent," he says. "We focused on the people who wanted to work this way. You can't convert everyone on day one. That takes years.

The first man stepped up to the open door. All the men had been ordered to look out at the horizon, not straight down, for obvious psychological reasons.

Speirs was an officer with a reputation. Slim, fairly tall, dark hair, stern, ruggedly handsome, he cultivated the look of a leader, and acted it.

At the hangars, each jumpmaster was given two packs of papers, containing an order of the day from Eisenhower and a message from Colonel Sink, to pass around to the men. "Tonight is the night of nights," said Sink's. "May God be with

As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.

The government can only be brought down because it alienates several parties in the House.