10 Quotes On Leadership From Mark Zuckerberg

culled from:articlecity

He’s no longer eligible for Forbes’ 30 under 30 list, but Silicon Valley’s favorite billionaire Mark Zuckerberg is still a force to be reckoned with.

Zuckerberg, who is turning 30 today, has built up a multi-billion dollar tech empire that is transforming the way social information moves through online spaces.

Like other programmers who made it big in the tech world, Zuckerberg was thrown into an executive position without any leadership training. “I started the site when I was 19,” Zuckerberg admits. “I didn’t know much about business back then.” Over time, he has developed a management strategy at
Facebook
that any company would envy.

Here are 10 quotes on leadership that prove Zuckerberg knows what he’s doing.
On Taking Risks

“Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.”

“You are better off trying something and having it not work and learning from that than not doing anything at all.”

“The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”
On Innovation

“People think innovation is just having a good idea but a lot of it is just moving quickly and trying a lot of things.”

“People don’t care about what you say, they care about what you build.”
On Productivity

“I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.”

“The question I ask myself like almost every day is, ‘Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?’…Unless I feel like I’m working on the most important problem that I can help with, then I’m not going to feel good about how I’m spending my time.”
On Hiring

“We look for people who are passionate about something. In a way, it almost doesn’t matter what you’re passionate about. What we really look for when we’re interviewing people is what they’ve shown an initiative to do on their own.”

“One of things that I do focus on at Facebook is making sure the culture is very friendly and that people hang out. So instead of having 20% of people’s time working on projects I make people hang out with each other.”

“I think as a company, if you can get those two things right –having a clear direction on what you are trying to do and bringing in great people who can execute on the stuff—then you can do pretty well.”

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6 Quotes to Inspire Creative Leadership

culled from:articlecity.com

You probably don’t think of making a sandwich as a creative act. And yet when I asked my 10-year-old son for an example of a business he considered creative, he said Subway.

When you think about it, every aspect of Subway’s business model is highly creative — from the order flow to the pricing to the way the bread is prepared. Subway has positioned itself as the go-to place for a sandwich like you would make at home. And with more than 40,000 stores around the globe, it’s the world’s largest sandwich chain.

It takes imagination to see how a sandwich assembly line could expand to have more locations than McDonald’s, but those 31 million combinations of sandwiches started the same way any business starts.

“Begin with an idea,” says Fred DeLuca, co-founder of Subway. “There’s probably a good one right under your nose.”

DeLuca was only 17 when he created Subway. He didn’t know what he didn’t know, but he never gave up. He succeeded, he says, because he just did it. He took concrete steps toward achievable goals and adjusted as he went. Most people probably have an idea for a business, he says, but they never do anything about it.

If you haven’t declared yourself a creative person, take some inspiration from these brilliant thinkers to tap into your inner artist.
1. “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” – Albert Einstein

Business has skewed too far to the linear, ROI-driven ways of solving problems with knowledge. Yet some of the best solutions come from the intuitive, creative side. These aren’t answers you can find in an Excel spreadsheet or Gantt chart. Entrepreneurial success belongs to those who can dance comfortably with uncertainty and shape things as they go.
2. “If you want to be an entrepreneur, fail as fast as you can. The longer you go without that experience, the more afraid you will be of it, and then you will never do it!” – Jeffry Timmons

Timmons was my entrepreneurial management professor at Harvard Business School and one of the wisest entrepreneurs I’ve met. I took his advice and started my first company while in school, and it forced me to tap into both my creative and analytical sides.

My business was selling CD towers to places like Brookstone, The Wiz, and Tweeter, and I had to harness my creativity to build a business and still graduate with my MBA. For financing, I took out more student loans. For product design, I bartered with a design student. For shipping, we found a local storage place where UPS picked up and made that our office. Sometimes you have to look beyond business conventions to find creative workarounds to achieve your dreams.
3. “It’s impossible, that’s for sure. So let’s start working.” – Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit was the man who walked a tightrope between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974. Petit prepared for the walk for six and a half years. He and his friends snuck onto both roofs with several hundred pounds of cable. He called his performance “the artistic crime of the century.”

Petit’s crazy dream and the risks he was willing to take to make it come true speak to every entrepreneur. Ask yourself, “What is the last impossible thing I achieved?” If you don’t have an answer, do something impossible today.
4. “Creativity is the depth of the honesty you express towards your possibility.” –Paramahamsa Nithyananda

When we tap into our creativity and allow it to flow freely and without judgment, we tap into our true nature, which opens up possibilities beyond the immediate problem we’re solving. But the more we say to ourselves, “I am not creative,” “It’s not the best use of my time,” or “It’s not practical,” the more challenging it becomes to take action or make an impact.
5. “I didn’t follow the policies of those already in the business. If I had, I would never have made a go of it. Instead, I started out with the determination to make a better nickel chocolate bar than any of my competitors made, and I did so.” – Milton Hershey

Milton Hershey succeeded by breaking the rules and defying conventional wisdom. But there are many other great businesses that began that way. Take it from Dell, Apple, Starbucks, FedEx, and Virgin Group: Doing things the way you’re supposed to do them will only get you as far as the others. But doing things in a way that’s coherent with your overall vision and opportunity is how to create a world-class experience.
6. “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist when we grow up” – Pablo Picasso

When my 7-year-old daughter and her friends were playing with clay and paints at her birthday party, I asked them, “Who here is an artist?” The hands flew up.

As we grow older, however, we learn to complicate things. When I ask adults that question at conferences, less than 25 percent typically raise their hands. We think we’re not artists because we’re not Picasso. It takes a lot of work to change that mindset, but I would challenge you to work to embrace your own artistry. Every aspect of business has huge possibilities for creativity and innovation.

We remember big innovations like the iPhone and the Tesla Roadster, but small innovations can also be huge. Your company can thrive by being innovative across the spectrum — in monetizing its services or designing its products.

Keep building until you see you have done the impossible. You may be surprised by the results.

Paresh Shah is an experienced entrepreneur, executive, yogi, life coach,and budding headbanger. He’s the founder and CEO of Glimpulse, the Human Expression Company that creates products to challenge, inspire, and equip people to be happier, healthier, and more giving through authentic expression

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Inspirational Proverbs Of Solomon That Enrich People's Lives

culled from:carolroth.com

Reading inspirational proverbs of Solomon has always aided me in difficult times. Whenever I find myself in sticky situations, or whenever I'm caught between two confusing paths, his wise words often have the power to clear my head.

Why don't you read and benefit from Solomon's words of wisdom yourself?

Inspirational Proverb of Solomon # 1: �Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than him.�

This particular proverb always reminds me not to get caught up in my own hype. No matter how much I have accomplished, I dare not think of myself as the greatest or the wisest of all.

Sure, I like to reward myself for a job well done; but the truth is, there will always be someone far greater and wiser than myself. And the moment I start thinking that I am the best is the moment I stop growing. Don't fall into this trap and keep finding ways to better yourself.

Inspirational Proverb of Solomon # 2: �An iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.�

This is one of my favorite quotes because it is phrased so wittily. The way King Solomon uses the word �sharpens� can mean a lot of different things.

There are times when �sharpens� talks about having a friend who keeps you in line. Let's be honest. Sometimes, we lose sight of who we are on the journey to success.

On the other hand, �sharpens� can also mean having a friend to help you become a better person. Your friends at work, for example, can help you develop your skills in pitching and presenting ideas.

Inspirational Proverb of Solomon # 3: �Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.�

Some people make fun of those who are kind and nice. Those in the corporate world are particularly vicious when it comes to getting the corner office or that impending promotion.

However, this enlightening proverb reminds everyone that while lying, cheating and basically doing cruel things can get you short-term success, your acts will destroy you in the long run.

Before you go down that path, think again. At the end of the day, can you really stomach what you're about to do?

These inspirational proverbs of Solomon are as good as gold when it comes to making your life richer. Don't just limit yourself to reading them once; read them again and again so that you'll always remember.

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10 Tips and Quotes From the Best Leadership Books of the Year

culled from:inc.com


Leadership is not about who you know, or why you know it, or how much you are paid to lead. It's often about what you know and how you apply that knowledge. That's why I've decided to scour the best books on leadership that were published this year and distill the information down to the most useful tip with a quote from the book (in my opinion).
1. Resilience is critical to success in leadership

"A few years ago, two former business school professors of mine, Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer, author of Power, and Jim Collins, author of Good to Great, did an informal study of my Stanford MBA classmates to discern what factors were the most influential in determining which students would "make it" and which would not. (As I recall, they were not looking for those who had made it as measured by dollars earned, but those who are most successful all around in achieving their goals and dreams.) After eliminating many different factors, they landed on resilience as the one defining skill and behavior that allowed some to stand out from the rest. After all it wasn't that none of us face that adversity--we all did. But some were able to pick themselves up and brush themselves off and move on, while others were not."

Denise Brosseau in her book Ready to Be a Thought Leader: How to Increase Your Influence, Impact, and Success
2. You must bridge the communication gap created by leadership

"Most successful people have little interest in listening to those individuals who cannot add value to a situation or topic but force themselves into a conversation just to hear themselves speak. Good communicators address both the what and how aspects of messaging so they don't fall prey to becoming the smooth talker who leaves people with the impression of form over substance."

Mike Myatt in his book Hacking Leadership: The 11 Gaps Every Business Needs to Close and the Secrets to Closing Them Quickly
3. Leadership is, at its core, about the mobilization of ideas

"Leadership is about setting a direction. It's about creating a vision, empowering and inspiring people to want to achieve the vision, and enabling them to do so with energy and speed through an effective strategy. In its most basic sense, leadership is about mobilizing a group of people to jump into a better future."

John P. Kotter in his book Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World
4. Good leaders are highly aware of their own vulnerabilities

"The role played by blindspots is to meditate between the poles of self-confidence and self-doubt. A leader with too many blindspots can be overconfident, even blindly arrogant, and exposed to a range of risks."

Robert Bruce Shaw in his book Leadership Blindspots: How Successful Leaders Identify and Overcome the Weaknesses That Matter
5. Leaders equip people for success beyond their own purview

"Entrepreneurial leaders foster in people the feeling that they are personally successful--the hallmark of leadership."

Derek Lidow in his book Startup Leadership: How Savvy Entrepreneurs Turn Their Ideas Into Successful Enterprises
6. The role of a leader is primarily to care for others

"And when a leader embraces their responsibility to care for people instead of caring for numbers, then people will follow, solve problems and see to it that that leader's vision comes to life the right way, a stable way and not the expedient way."

Simon Sinek in his book Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
7. Take time to reflect and lead in the moment without stopping only to focus on problems

"Most leaders can barely breathe through the blur of activity, much less reflect on and register the best of what is happening in the present moment. And on the rare occasions when they do step back to assess the situation at hand, they focus on the problems, ignoring the opportunities."

Kathryn D. Cramer in her book Lead Positive: What Highly Effective Leaders See, Say, and Do
8. Trust in leadership can be distilled down to four basic elements

"Trust in others (and their trust in us) depends on four elements: reliability, congruence, acceptance, and openness."

Joanna Barsh and Johanne Lavoie in their book Centered Leadership: Leading with Purpose, Clarity, and Impact
9. Body language trumps spoken instruction

"Remember, every communication is two conversations, the spoken content and the body language. The body language always trumps the content when the two are in conflict. So in planning your content and failing to think much about your emotions, which drive your body language, you're leaving that to chance--the more important of the two conversations."

Nick Morgan in his book Power Cues: The Subtle Science of Leading Groups, Persuading Others, and Maximizing Your Personal Impact
10. Hope in leadership comes from analyzing success and feedback

"To increase your chances of moving toward your ideal self, challenge any self-defeating thoughts. Keep in mind your past accomplishments, candidly assess what has stopped you from achieving goals, as well as your personal beliefs about your abilities. Consider relevant feedback from others about what you have achieved and what your potential is. This helps increase your sense of hopefulness, which research has shown is critical in imagining and realizing the ideal self."

Stewart D. Friedman in his book Leading the Life You Want: Skills for Integrating Work and Life

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Are You Hiring for the Right Traits?

culled from:articletrade.com
There’s lots of talk lately about the talent shortage – how employers, especially small ones, can’t find workers with the skills and experience they are seeking. But maybe the problem is that small business owners are putting too much emphasis on the wrong things. A recent survey from Hyper Island, Tomorrow’s Most Wanted, reports that when it comes to finding the right employees to hire – personality matters more than skills.
Hyper Island surveyed more than 500 leaders and employees and discovered that overwhelmingly, companies rated “personality” as the most d
esirable quality in a job candidate. More than three-fourths (78 percent) of respondents rate personality as important, while 53 percent say cultural fit is key. Just 39 percent say “skill set” matters most.
But exactly what personality traits are employers seeking?
Hyper Island CEO Johanna Frelin says companies are looking for “people who can collaborate, adapt quickly and are enjoyable company, but also have the drive to get things done.” Respondents to the survey cite a mix of creativity and drive as most desirable; also high on the list are “an open mind,” problem-solving abilities and the ability to generate ideas. When candidates exhibit these traits, specific competence becomes less important, Frelin says.
While this study focused on companies in communications, technology and business development industries, I think the results are generally applicable to all types of businesses in today’s fast-changing marketplace. After all, whether you run a restaurant, a manufacturing company or a PR firm, don’t you want employees who can adapt, be flexible and work well with others?
If you’ve been struggling to find qualified employees, here are some takeaways from this survey that can help.
Don’t Get Bogged Down in Specific Skills
Yes, skills are important, but if you weed out potential candidates too early because they are missing very specific skills, you may be missing out on a great employee.
For example, if you own a graphic design firm and you’re looking for someone creative who knows a specific design program, focus more on the creativity and less on that design program. Maybe they’ve never used program A, but they’ve used programs B and C. More importantly, they have an impressive portfolio of work.
Isn’t it worth giving them a chance (and a little time to get up to speed on program A)?
Look Beyond the Resume or Job Application
Big corporations use computers to sort resumes by keywords, but as a small business you can see the things this automated approach is likely to miss—such as an employee’s creative cover letter or life experiences that may not meet your exact job criteria, but could indicate potential for success.
I still remember arguing with a colleague about whether to hire a job candidate who we both thought was fantastic, but who was one semester short of a college degree. I argued for hiring her, even though technically, having a degree was a job requirement. We hired her and decades later, I’m still working with her.
Build Personality Into Your Want Ads
Along with skills and experience, make sure your want ads indicate what type of personality you’re looking for – whether that’s meticulous and detail-oriented, or energetic and personable. This will help candidates who don’t fit the profile self-select out of applying, saving you time.

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12 John Wooden Quotes for Leadership Success

culled from:brainyquotes.com

Hall of Fame basketball player and legendary coach John Wooden. Best known for coaching the UCLA Bruins through 27 winning seasons, Wooden mastered the tenets of leading successfully. Below are 12 John Wooden quotes that will inspire leadership success, regardless of field:

1. Never mistake activity for achievement.

2. A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

3. Ability is a poor man’s wealth.

4. Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

5. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

6. I’d rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

7. Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

8. It’s not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.

9. It isn’t what you do, but how you do it.

10. It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.

11. Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

12. Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

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Appreciate, Victory, Behind

culled from: www.brainyquotes.com

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

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Secret, Nobody, Knows

 

culled from: www.brainyquotes.com

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

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Leadership Quotes

1.    A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. —Lao Tzu
2.    Where there is no vision, the people perish. —Proverbs 29:18
3.    I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? —Benjamin Disraeli
4.    You manage things; you lead people. —Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper
5.    The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. —Max DePree
6.    Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. —Warren Bennis
7.    Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. — General George Patton
8.    Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. —Jack Welch
9.    A leader is a dealer in hope. —Napoleon Bonaparte
10.    You don’t need a title to be a leader. –Multiple Attributions
11.    A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. —John Maxwell
12.    My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence. —General Montgomery
13.    Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. —Peter Drucker
14.    Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has. —Margaret Mead
15.    The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground. —Sir Winston Churchill
16.    The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. —Warren Bennis
17.    To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less. —Andre Malraux
18.    He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. —Aristotle
19.    Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position. —Brian Tracy
20.    I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. —Ralph Nader
21.    Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. —Peter Drucker
22.    Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. —Publilius Syrus
23.    A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together. —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
24.    The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. —Theodore Roosevelt
25.    Leadership is influence. —John C. Maxwell
26.    You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case. —Ken Kesey
27.    When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out. —Napoleon Bonaparte
28.    Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. —Harry S. Truman
29.    People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. —John Maxwell
30.    So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. —Peter Drucker
31.    The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. —Tony Blair
32.    The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet. —Reverend Theodore Hesburgh
33.    The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. —Kenneth Blanchard
34.    A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible. —Polybius
35.    A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position. —John Maxwell
36.    A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be. —Rosalynn Carter
37.    The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly. —Jim Rohn
38.    Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish. —Sam Walton
39.    A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent. —Douglas MacArthur
40.    A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward. —Ovid
41.    No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. —Andrew Carnegie
42.    Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. —General Dwight Eisenhower
43.    The leader has to be practical and a realist yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. —Eric Hoffer
44.    Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems. —Brian Tracy
45.    A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. —Max Lucado
46.    Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. —General George Patton
47.    As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. —Bill Gates
48.    All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. —John Kenneth Galbraith
49.    Do what you feel in your heart to be right–for you’ll be criticized anyway. —Eleanor Roosevelt
50.    Don’t necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership. —Donald Rumsfeld
51.    Education is the mother of leadership. —Wendell Willkie
52.    Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. —Stephen Covey
53.    Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand. —General Colin Powell
54.    Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths. —John Zenger
55.    He who has great power should use it lightly. —Seneca
56.    He who has learned how to obey will know how to command. —Solon
57.    I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be. —Warren Bennis
58.    I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody. —Herbert Swope
59.    If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. —Maya Angelou
60.    If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing. —Benjamin Franklin
61.    If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. —John Quincy Adams
62.    In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. —Thomas Jefferson
63.    It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. —Latin Proverb
64.    It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership. —Nelson Mandela
65.    Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead. —Ross Perot
66.    Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal. —Vince Lombardi
67.    Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. —John C. Maxwell
68.    Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. —John F. Kennedy
69.    Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day. —Jesse Jackson
70.    Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. —Woodrow Wilson
71.    Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. —Norman Schwarzkopf
72.    Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. —Colin Powell
73.    Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts. —Erskine Bowles
74.    Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better. —Bill Bradley
75.    Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. —Tom Peters
76.    Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. —Stephen Covey
77.    Never give an order that can’t be obeyed. —General Douglas MacArthur
78.    No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent. —Abraham Lincoln
79.    What you do has far greater impact than what you say. —Stephen Covey
80.    Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow. —Chinese Proverb
81.    One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. —Arnold Glasow
82.    The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on. —Walter Lippman
83.    The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision. —Ken Blanchard
84.    The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. —Harvey Firestone
85.    To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult. —Friedrich Nietzsche
86.    To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way. —Pat Riley
87.    True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well. —Bill Owens
88.    We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity. —Marco Rubio
89.    Whatever you are, be a good one. —Abraham Lincoln
90.    You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. —Eleanor Roosevelt
91.    A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops. —John J Pershing
92.    A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit. —John Maxwell
93.    There are three essentials to leadership: humility, clarity and courage. —Fuchan Yuan
94.    I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn’t. —Dee Dee Myers
95.    A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men. —Stephen King
96.    My responsibility is getting all my players playing for the name on the front of the jersey, not the one on the back. –Unknown
97.    A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. –George Patton
98.    The supreme quality of leadership is integrity. –Dwight Eisenhower
99.    You don’t lead by hitting people over the head—that’s assault, not leadership. –Dwight Eisenhower
100.    Earn your leadership every day. –Michael Jordan
Published on February 24, 2011 by Stephanie Sarkis, Ph.D. in Here, There, and Everywhere

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