Leadership
by Mesfin Rejji
1. Communication
1.1. There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills. Shiv Khera
1.2. Practice self-awareness, self-evaluation, and self-improvement. If we are aware that our manners - language, behavior, and actions - are measured against our values and principles, we are able to more easily embody the philosophy, leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do. Frances Hesselbein
1.3. Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating. Simon Sinek
1.4. I believe in servant leadership, and the servant always asks, 'Where am I needed most?' Mike Pence
2. Visionary
2.1. The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better. Tony Dungy
2.2. The proudest moment for [a teacher of leaders] is seeing not what students learn but what they do." - David Gergen
2.3. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. - Warren Bennis"
2.4. The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. Harvey S. Firestone
2.5. I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal. Ben Carson
2.6. I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential. Denise Morrison
2.7. Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. Warren Bennis
2.8. Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation. Simon Sinek
2.9. "The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. - Theodore M. Hesburgh"
3. Follower
3.1. One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you. - Dennis Peer"
3.2. Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader. Indra Nooyi
3.3. 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. Andy Stanley
3.4. We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity. Marco Rubio
3.5. What's great about our leadership is they welcome other ideas. Tom Graves
4. Servant
4.1. Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title. Robin S. Sharma
4.2. Leadership contains certain elements of good management, but it requires that you inspire, that you build durable trust. For an organization to be not just good but to win, leadership means evoking participation larger than the job description, commitment deeper than any job contract's wording. Stanley A. McChrystal
4.3. In leadership, you don't demand for respect, you earn it. Unknown"
4.4. It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership. Nelson Mandela
4.5. I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential. Denise Morrison
4.6. A true leader is a servant not a boss. Unknown
4.7. Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power. Seth Berkley
4.8. Leadership is service to others. Denise Morrison
4.9. I believe in servant leadership, and the servant always asks, 'Where am I needed most?' Mike Pence
5. Leader
5.1. Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. Tom Peters
5.2. Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better. Bill Bradley
5.3. Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts. - Erskine Bowles
5.4. Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. Warren Bennis
5.5. "Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing. ~ Mary D. Poole"
5.6. Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. Colin Powell
5.7. Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers. Robin S. Sharma
5.8. A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. John C Maxwell.
5.9. True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well. Bill Owens
6. Responsibility
6.1. Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others. ~ John Maxwell
6.2. Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others. ~ John Maxwell
6.3. Leadership is having a compelling vision, a comprehensive plan, relentless implementation, and talented people working together. Alan Mulally
6.4. Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses. Mitt Romney.
6.5. "The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. - Max DePree"
6.6. "Leadership is...about creating a climate where the truth is heard and the brutal facts are confronted. - Jim Collins"
6.7. It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute. William Pollard
7. Bad Leadership
7.1. No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it. Andrew Carnegie
7.2. "You do not lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership. - Dwight D. Eisenhower"
7.3. Everything rises and falls on leadership. John C. Maxwell
8. The qualities of Leadership
8.1. "The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. - Max DePree"
8.2. "One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency." --Arnold Glasow
8.3. Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. Harold S. Geneen
8.4. "Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word. - Brian Tracy"
8.5. "Failureis only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. -Henry Ford
8.6. "A good leader is not the person who does things right, but the person who finds the right things to do.~Anthony Dadovano"
8.7. Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership. Bill Owens
8.8. One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers. James Humes
9. Leadership Character
9.1. Character matters; leadership descends from character. Rush Limbaugh
9.2. Leadership is about making the right decision and the best decision before, sometimes, it becomes entirely popular. Martin O'Malley
9.3. Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time. George W. Bush
9.4. God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us. Charles Stanley