Great leaders are teachable leaders.
I'm from the school that great performers and great leaders create more great leaders. Give people other experiences, other responsibilities. Have them join organizations within the company and outside the company.
What great leaders have in common is that each truly knows his or her strengths - and can call on the right strength at the right time.
Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.
Great leaders are great servants because the only way of setting an example is by demonstrating an example. Service to mankind is the key to true leadership!
There is greatness in everyone already. The job of the leader is not to put greatness in anyone. The job of the leader is to make people discover and exploit the greatness already existing in them!
Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.
Average leaders inspire people to punch a time clock. Great leaders inspire industry and passion.
Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.
Demonstrating integrity is indispensable for leaders.
The mediocre leader tells. The good leader explains. The superior leader demonstrates. The great leader inspires.
I strongly believe that leadership is an art, not a science. I've learned that leadership can be innate or it can be learned. However, I don't believe anyone was truly born to be a great leader. Great leaders are formed over a long period of time thr...
Great leaders die empty. They live to offload everything they put in them! Don’t die with your books in your mind unpublished!
Opportunities loiter in every corner. Everyone may see them, but it’s only great leaders that stop by to give them lifts!
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.
The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
Great leaders build trust from their team because the leader is willing to put his/her people “first.” Once the team believes that, they will put their leader, and the company, first as well.
When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.
Great leaders create memorable journeys
The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
