Leadership Definition

1. "A leader is one who know the way, shows the way, and goes the way" - Unkown Author



2. "A leader is a dealer of hope" - Napoleon Bonaparte


3. "Real leaders are ordinary people, with extraordinary determinations" - John Seaman Garns


4. "Leadership is an action, not a position" - Donald H. McGannon


5. "A great leader never set himself above his followers except in carrying responsibilities" - Jules Ormont


6. "A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune" - Anon


7. "Good leaders make people feel that they're the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning" - Warren Bennis


8. "I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod" - Sir Winston Churchill


9. "Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out" - Stephen Covey


10. "The first responsibility of a leader is to define reslity. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant" - Max De Pree, 'Leadership Is An Art"


11. "Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it" - Dwight D. Eisenhower


12. "In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes" - John Erksine, "The Complete Life"


13. "One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency" - John Glassgow


14. "The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision" - Theodore Hesburgh


15. "The difference between a boss and a leader : a boss says, 'Gol' - a leader says, 'Let's go!" - E. M. Kelly, Growing Disciples, 1995


16. "The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself" - Blaine Lee, The Power Principle


17. "The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players" - Blaine Lee, The Power Principle


18. "The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on" - Walter Lippmann


19. "The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully" - Walter Lippmann


20. "To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less" - Andre Malraux, 'Man's Hope'


21. "The ultimate leader is one who is wiling to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability" - Fred A. Manske, Jr


22. "Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy" - Gen H. Norman Schwarzkopf


23. "No amount of study a learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one" - Archibald Wavell, 'London Times', February 17, 1941

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