Quotes About Leadership

For thousands of years art was seen as a source of responsible moral and ethical leadership. Today, taking that stance is almost seen as comic.

The only test of leadership is that somebody follows.

Great leaders encourage leadership development. By openly developing themselves

If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.

Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people.

If becoming a high performing organization is the destination, leadership is the engine.

Leadership is the ability to step outside the culture to start evolutionary change processes that are more adaptive.

Great leadership is not attained by pursuing greatness but by persevering through great tests.

I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to the point of responsibility. I don't believe in giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people.

The ultimate test of practical leadership is the realization of intended, real change that meets people's enduring needs.

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't.

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.

Most US corporations today are over-managed and under-led. They need to develop their capacity to exercise leadership.

Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings.

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.

All leadership is appreciative leadership. It's the capacity to see the best in the world around us, in our colleagues, and in the groups we are trying to lead.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.

Unless structure follows strategy, inefficiency results.

A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress.

It's true that charisma can make a person stand out for a moment, but character sets a person apart for a lifetime.

Leadership is not a license to do less. Leadership is a responsibility to do more