“They re both afraid. They look at their children--Alan has four kids, too--and they re afraid and ashamed of their fear, ashamed of their powerlessness. And they re tired. There are millions of people like them--people who are frightened and just plain tired of all the chaos. They want someone to do something. Fix things. Now!”
“Even my mother said that things were improving. Yet Andrew Steele Jarret was able to scare, divide, and bully people, first into electing him President, then into letting him fix the country for then, He didn t get to do everything he wanted to do. He was capable of much greater fascism. So were his most avid followers.”
“There are two types of people in the world: leaders and followers.”
“Those days of autocratic leadership style are gone. It’s the age of partnerships where all your employees are your partners.”
“Good leaders are above all that. They think of their team first before they think of themselves.”
“The lifecycle of a highly successful product is like the curve of a hill. It goes down, up, and then down again.”
“Management is about the position; leadership is a disposition that goes beyond positions. Managers minimize risks; leaders maximize contribution. Managers work through structures of stability; leaders work through dynamic change. While managers are defined by their position, leaders can emerge from any position.”
“Leaders typically don’t follow the crowd, that is unless they’re trying to escape a burning building.”
“A true liberator is the rare leader.”
“The Lord made leaders.”
“If you ve done leadership right, people will hug you on their way out the door.”
“The biggest problem Africa has , it is not poverty or economy, lack of resources or infrastructure, lack of technology or slavery , but it is African leaders.”
“Follow in no one s footsteps, but let nature be your guide.”
“Exceptional leaders are fearless in setting expectations in clear language.”
“Today we don t need just leaders to lead organizations but today we need spiritual leaders to spark the light within so outside of them lighten automatically.”
“There are mentors who have the job of forming flocks and leading flocks in a flight pattern. That s good. But then there are mentors who have the job of training eagles how to soar alone. I am the eagle mentor. I m not here to mentor you on how to fly in a flock; I am here to call out the eagles amongst you and encourage them on their destiny to soar high alone. This is my job, this is my calling.”
“It is not fashionable where I am not.”