I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.
The three most important ways to lead people are:. . . by example. . . by example. . . by example.
Leadership is the ability to influence people and motivate them to do what needs to be done to accomplish a goal, vision, or mission.
It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.
We were not designed to be dominated.
One is too small a number to achieve greatness. No accomplishment of real value has ever been achieved by a human being working alone.
We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases and the alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our prejudice. And our failure to imagine that these things could be done to us.
Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.
We made America more respected around the world, took on the mantle of leadership in the fight to protect this planet for our kids, and much, much more.
The World Bank is the monopoly provider of poverty data and, partly due to a leadership change there, the World Bank's reporting has been heavily on the rosy side since about 2000. The Bank's cultivation of an upbeat picture affords a very interesting lesson in statistics and how you can, depending on which numbers you present and how you present them, create a more positive or more negative impression of the evolution of poverty.
You must do right before you feel good.
We have to ask ourselves if we have become so focused on supporting personal choices that we're failing to encourage women to aspire to leadership.
Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.
Christ can come back at any time so the one thing you want to have in your life is a focused prayer time.
American philanthropic custom owes much to leadership by business and professional people.
What do you want to achieve or avoid? The answers to this question are objectives. How will you go about achieving your desire results? The answer to this you can call strategy.
I kind of know what my job is, it's to develop a message that's hopeful and optimistic about the future of the country, to develop ideas that will give people a sense that they can lift up, and to tell them about my leadership skills to make it so.
Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional.
I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience.
You've got to have a problem that you want to solve; a wrong that you want to right.