No amount of training in leadership skills, courses in management methods, power titles, promotions, or associations can substitute for the right attitudes.
Learning comes from education, while knowing comes from revelation. Learning is cognitive, while knowing is spiritual.
Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.
The only time I'm the only woman in the room is when I go to the leadership meeting.
He that thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk.
I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example. I want to make sure there is no discrepancy between what we say and what we do. If you preach accountability and then promote somebody with bad results, it doesn't work. I personally believe the best training is management by example. Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.
We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal.
Implementation of technological change must involve critics as well as advocates.
Leadership always contains far more down cycles than ups. Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington, Wilson, and both Roosevelts experienced setbacks that would have discouraged (the) less resilient.
No athletic director holds office longer than two losing football coaches.
After the events of last week, I'm appalled at the standard Australia seems to be willing to accept in regards to its own behaviour and the behaviour of our leaders. Accuse me of playing the gender card all you like, but I will not walk past it any more. You might consider joining me.
Progress on problems is the measure of leadership; leaders mobilize people to face problems, and communities make progress on problems because leaders challenge them and help them to do so.
Just remember, strength and courage. If you stand on principle, you'll never lose.
I saw one of my primary tasks was to do what I could to restore confidence, to ensure that people knew and cared about their predicament and that governments were committed to helping. Equally an optimism had to be engendered, a belief that not only would they recover but would emerge 'bigger, brighter and better than ever. '
True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned. It comes only from Influence.
Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
From 143rd Street in Harlem to the center court at Wimbledon is about as far as one can travel.
The Australian Army is a highly respected National institution because of its people. It's all about the people. If we communicate, and leverage off all in our organisation, not just our senior officers, our IQ will be awesome. Then there will be no job which is beyond us.
There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.
In times of change, learners inherit the earth