What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.
In a volunteer organization there has to be time for community.
As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us.
It is absolutely necessary. . . for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.
A truly successful person knows how to overcome the past, use the present, and prepare for the future-but unless we can first surmount the past, we cannot effectively cope with either the present or the future.
Learning to receive feedback from each other is what leadership is all about.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
When the strongest nation in the world can be tied up for years in a war with no end in sight, when the richest nation in the world can't manage its own economy, when the nation with the greatest tradition of the rule of law is plagued by unprecedented lawlessness, and when the President of the United States cannot travel abroad or to any major city at home without fear of a hostile demonstration - then it's time for new leadership for the United States of America.
Influence is getting others to do what you want them to do because they want to do it - a take on Eisenhower's famous leadership statement
You should always stand up for what you believe and never stand down to promise or protect your career.
At the heart of great leadership is a curious mind, heart, and spirit.
When someone grows up in poverty they never know that's going to be a benefit to their child.
Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.
I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.
Success comes from a constant focus on renewal.
It took a course from me for the Democratic leadership to realize we have an electoral college. 'But we got the popular vote!' Well you can take the MTA from Dorchester to Brookline. That's how far it'll get you.
Leaders who want to show sensitivity should listen often and long and talk short and seldom. Many so-called leaders are too busy to listen. True leaders know that time spent listening is well invested.
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why - Warren Bennis, Leadership Guru It is not so much that man is a herd animal, said Freud, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief
Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits and pieces into an enticing new possibility.