“To lead by example is to offer your life as a living diarry for others to read. Never make your life pages blank; make some marks there. Many people are reading you.”
“In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.”
“You can lead with or without a title. If you wait until you get a title, you may wait forever.”
“The best leaders want to leverage all the capabilities of the people in their organization.”
“Added pressure and responsibility should not change one s leadership style, it should merely expose that which already exists.”
“Great leadership produces great success. Weak leadership produces failure.”
“The fact that people are in positions does not justify the means that they are leaders. A leader can be blind and to know this, check his sense of vision.”
“Decision-making is a skill. Wisdom is a leadership trait.”
“The mediocre leader tells. The good leader explains. The superior leader demonstrates. The great leader inspires.”
“The captain of a ship can run a great ship, but he can t do anything about the tides.”
“I m not the boss of my house. I don t know how I lost it, I don t know when I lost it, I don t really think I ever had it. But I ve seen the boss s job...and I don t want it!”
“If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don’t. You will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better.”
“Reasons are the spoils of victory. When you ve destroyed the enemy, then your leaders write down the reasons in books, and give moving speeches about them. If you ve done your job, then there aren t any of the enemy left to dispute your leader s reasons. At least not until the next war.”
“The old world was destroyed because of its own greed and secretiveness. Those least evolved rose to the top, as happens here. Your leaders, as you call them, are all people with damaged senses of self-worth. The damaged goods run the civilization. That’s why it cannot last. Abraham Lincoln was damaged goods? The need to lead is a symptom.”
“Church leaders raised on rationalism lead ministries where the supernatural, the Vertical, is suppressed and where God Himself is at best an observer and certainly seldom, if ever, and obvious participant in church.”
“It is no longer just engineers who dominate our technology leadership, because it is no longer the case that computers are so mysterious that only engineers can understand what they are capable of. There is an industry-wide shift toward more product thinking in leadership--leaders who understand the social and cultural contexts in which our technologies are deployed. Products must appeal to human beings, and a rigorously cultivated humanistic sensibility is a valued asset for this challenge. That is perhaps why a technology leader of the highest status--Steve Jobs--recently credited an appreciation for the liberal arts as key to his company s tremendous success with their various i-gadgets.”
“Leaders in touch with heaven can move earth”