Toughest thing for me as a young manager is that a lot of my players saw me play. They know how bad I was.
Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Leadership is like beauty - it's hard to define but you know it when you see it.
The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
All of great leaders evidence four basic qualities that are central to their ability to lead: adaptive capacity, the ability to engage others through shared meaning, a distinctive voice, and unshakeable integrity. These four qualities mark all exemplary leaders, whatever their age, gender, ethnicity, or race.
Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.
Poverty is no vice, but an inconvenience.
Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.
Dirty, stained, withered, broken things seem beautiful to me.
I am pleased to see that many of the world's leaders have publicly recognized that the crisis in the Middle East was deliberately incited by terrorist organizations.