Leadership is the art of the future.
the moment you stop learning, you stop leading.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
So 2000 to 2008 probably is the last time we had leadership in Washington with any power which had the belief that America is the solution to problems in the world America always has been. We've got some things wrong but our motivations and interests have always been aboveboard.
He that cannot obey, cannot command.
Leadership is defined by results not attributes.
The greatness of a leader is measured by the achievements of the led. This is the ultimate test of his effectiveness.
In this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam may be god.
Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.
There is only one thing worse than training employees and losing them, and that's not training them and keeping them
I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.
In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
A job is bound to be miserable if it doesn't involve measurement.
Leadership is not about having the charisma or speaking inspirational words, but about leading with example.
That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.
Don't tell me you can pitch. . . pitch. Don't tell me you can sell. . . sell.
What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.
Everybody who aspires to high positions of leadership in their state and in their country should be willing to take unscreened, unrehearsed questions from the people who pay their salary.