I think we so often equate leadership with being experts - the leader is supposed to come in and fix things. But in this interconnected world we live in now, it's almost impossible for just one person to do that.
A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others do. " (Leroy Eims)
Substance and content over style and hype any day.
As a pastor our main ministry is exhortation.
We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless. . . . We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.
A leader should have higher endurance and ability to accept and embrace failure.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
It's not enough to be close to the customer. You've got to be glued to the customer.
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.
Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
I think leadership of any kind requires trust and transparency and voters should demand no less from their political leadership in government.
I didn't set out to become a leader, so I always come back to my first lesson - just do it. If you're the first one out there actively doing something to solve a problem then you'll naturally fall into a leadership role.
Effective communication is the best way to solve problems.
The inevitable end of multiple chiefs is that they fade and disappear for lack of unity.
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing
We do have to treat people the way Americans always treat people, with the highest level of compassion and care. But they will have to be returned, because that is the law. If you ignore that, if you don't apply that - as heartbreaking as it may be - you are basically telling another 80,000 people to try to come.
We are not seeking revolution. We just want democracy.
If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.
