Quotes About Challenge

Part of the challenge with leadership is that it's very driven by gut instinct in most cases - and even worse, everyone thinks they're really good at it. The reality is that very few people are.

The greatest challenge of Leadership maintaining personal conviction in a globalized world.

Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.

If the experience of leadership is like being at the edge of an unfamiliar chasm, the act of leadership is building a bridge across that chasm.

Confront your inadequacies and push your personal boundaries: It's the surest way to grow, improve and expand the scope of your influence.

Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate but rather a flame which is kept burning in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.

Leaders know that the fruit of life is out on a limb.

No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.

Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been.

I have come, reluctantly, to the conclusion that Boris [Johnson] cannot provide the leadership or build the team for the task ahead.

People who cease to grow can't inspire others. Leadership begins with challenging oneself.

Take the job or the project that scares you a little. It's the one with the most to teach you.

To 'turn around' is to end up facing the same way. Maybe that is the problem, all the turning organizations around.

War is an option of difficulties.

The dark comes before dawn. The financial markets are under great pressure because of the lack of leadership during the transition period.

Your most dangerous competitors are those that are most like you.

By instinct we-leaders-want to run hard all the time; by intellect we know this is not possible. Reconciling those two positions in the context of leadership is an ongoing challenge.

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven't had that fear.

Once we had become locked in on a schedule, he (Coach Denny Green) often created a disruption (artificial adversity) to that schedule just to see how guys would respond.

When your vision is a biblical vision, the people arguing with it are not arguing with you. They are arguing with God.

Don't even trust that you are able to unify what everyone is thinking; it is impossible

Leadership is about calling people to do things beyond themselves.

Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead.

If there is ever a time crying out for courageous leadership, its now.