No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one be without the strategy.
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault not leadership.
Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.
Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry creativity entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And therefore you learn how to do it.
We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it no real success is possible no matter whether it is on a section gang a football field in an army or in an office.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.
Great companies in the way they work start with great leaders.
The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
Leaders grasp nettles.
Today a reader tomorrow a leader.
I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much.
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.
Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
It is after all the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
Without initiative leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.
The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.