Quotes About Leadership

One key to successful leadership is continuous personal change. Personal change is a reflection of our inner growth and empowerment.

I think playing cricket taught me more about working in teams and leadership that has stayed with me throughout my career.

The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.

True leadership is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you.

the best leaders try to train their followers themselves to become leaders. ... they wish to be leaders of leaders.

How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a group.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.

Leadership is ultimately about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen.

Leadership is an elusive concept, hard to describe and impossible to prescribe. It is more evident in its absence, so that when leadership is needed, its lack is sorely felt.

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.

Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers.

Leadership is providing inspiration and vision, then developing and empowering others to achieve this vision.

Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore; it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.

Leadership is a choice, not a position

Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!

To keep the wrong leader in the wrong place prevents the right leader from being in the right place.

Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality.

The first step to leadership is servanthood.

To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It's about stimulating them. It's about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do that with a purpose.

The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

The sky cannot have two suns.

The major challenge of most executives is not understanding the practice of leadership - it is practicing their understanding of leadership.