And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, only about ten feet more.
If leadership is the act of going beyond what is. . . it begins by going beyond what is within ourselves.
Leadership is defined as authentic transformative energy that adds value to others
PURPOSE is spirit seeking expression.
If the experience of leadership is like being at the edge of an unfamiliar chasm, the act of leadership is building a bridge across that chasm.
Managers assert drive and control to get things done; leaders pause to discover new ways of being and achieving.
I balance my natural drive for speed and impact with a counterbalancing drive for significance, innovation and sustained customer intimacy. This involves slowing down and moving from transactive management, which focuses on speed, content, accuracy and productivity, to transformative leadership, which focuses on significance, context, authenticity and purpose. This critical shift requires constant diligence, discipline and practice.
You should forgive your enemies and if you haven't any, just forgive a few of your friends.
I'm one of five girls in the whole entire world that can honestly say I'm a Spice Girl. I'm still proud of that, and what we've achieved as a group - spreading the word of positivity and girl power. I'm really proud to call myself that.
And believe me, to have been in the city of Tuscaloosa in October when you were young and full of Early Times and had a shining Alabama girl by your side--to have had all that and then to have seen those red shirts pour onto the field, and, then, coming behind them, with that inexorable big cat walk of his, the man himself, The Bear--that was very good indeed.
Stars are holes in the sky, they are the light of Heaven coming from the other side.