Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.
If you create an environment where the people truly participate, you don't need control. They know what needs to be done and they do it. And the more that people will devote themselves to your cause on a voluntary basis, a willing basis, the fewer hierarchies and control mechanisms you need.
I made a commitment. . . both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.
Leadership has less to do with position than it does with disposition.
If you want it, measure it. If you can't measure it, forget it.
To be elected president, you have to do more than tear down your opponents. You have to give the American people a reason to vote for you - a reason to hope - a reason to believe that under your leadership, America will be better.
Whether he likes it or not, [he] cannot remain incognito forever. He has outraged too many wise men and pleased too many fools to hide behind his too-appropriate order to assume leadership of the forces of stupidity he has marshalled, or his enemies will unmask him in order to better understand the disease that has produced such a warped and twisted mind.
The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for
The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.
You can strengthen your leadership voice by finding what I call its Maximum Resonance Point and learning to pitch your voice there. That gives you the strongest voice and thus the one that people are most likely to want to follow.
Good leaders must first become good servants.
Influence is not the same as authority. Authority can be abused by influence gives.
We wanted guys who had been productive in college, and we made it a point to pick performance over potential.
You can't lead people you don't believe in.
Leadership is not achieved by an individual. Leadership is bestowed by the group.
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.
we should think not only of what the leader does to the group, but also of what the group does to the leader.
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.
Most people think of leadership as a position and therefore don't see themselves as leaders.
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.