A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless. . . someone's got to make a wake up call.
Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.
Mentors turn into tormentors if they believe they are always right.
When a person gets to know his Creator, and finally comes to know himself, then his leadership is born.
Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.
It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
We need a different kind of leadership in the White House that understands how to get bureaucracies competent again.
We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.
Cooperation with others. Perception, experience, tenacity. Know when to lead and when to follow.
Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention
The is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.
It's a huge responsibility to have influence and to steward it in a way that leads to God-honoring leadership.
Personal sacrifices are really the beginning and the end of everything, because you don't win because you do one thing right or two things right. You win because you do 1,000 little things right throughout the year.
It is very simple to be likeable in Washington. You just go along to get along. You just do what your leadership wants.
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.
Leadership is getting people to do things that they don't want to do.
How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
We can lead others only as far along the road as we ourselves have traveled. merely pointing the way is not enough. If we are not walking, then no one can be following, and ware not leading anyone.
