The secular mind and heart, however gifted and personally charming, has no place in the leadership of the church.
If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership.
Beaten paths are for beaten men.
Our world loses out when the leadership doesn't reflect the led - when a minority makes decisions for the majority.
A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
Learning how to respond to and master the process of change - and even to excel at it - is a critical leadership skill for the twenty-first century. Constant, rapid change will be a fact of life for all of us.
You know, I think my biggest concern [if Mitt is elected], obviously, would just be for his mental well-being. I have all the confidence in the world in his ability, in his decisiveness and his leadership skills, in his understanding of the economy, in his understanding of what's missing right now in the economy - you know, pieces that are missing to get this jump-started. So for me I think it would just be the emotional part of it.
Learning is not compulsory. . . neither is survival.
The essence of leadership is relationship; influencing people to achieve things together that can't be achieved alone.
If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.
If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
I'm tired of the naked, raped, beaten black woman body. I want to see an image of black femaleness that alters our universe in some way.
If you have a different mindset, you will have a different outcome: if you make different choices from your peers, your life will then be different from your peers.
Leaders exhibit two essential characteristics, the willingness to confront adversity and a clearly articulated future preference.
Talent matters. Systems matter. Strategies matter. We can't just bring nice people together and think we're going to solve the world's problems.
Leadership is the art of the future.
It's awfully important to win with humility. It's also important to lose. I hate to lose worse than anyone, but if you never lose you won't know how to act. If you lose with humility, then you can come back.
It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
First we become the best, then we'll become first.
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.