Leader Quotes - Page 104

The most important thing about leadership is your character and the values that guide your life.

If leaders don't have an antidote for fear they will be crushed by it. What is your antidote?

Leaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels.

Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.

The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.

When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.

Working in the context of ultra-famous brands like Dior and Vuitton, creative spirits are always going to feel reined in. It's important that they are free to develop ideas. And rather than detracting from the principal job, it reinforces it. I think of that money as venture capital. It's not a big investment.

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led.

If there is one thing that has helped me as a coach, it's my ability to recognize winners, or good people who can become winners by paying the price.

People who are in it for their own good are individualists. They don't share the same heartbeat that makes a team so great. A great unit, whether it be football or any organization, shares the same heartbeat.

The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

The terms of peace may be negotiated by political leaders, but the fate of peace is up to each of us.

We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.

Take the job or the project that scares you a little. It's the one with the most to teach you.

To be the best next-generation leader you can be, you must enlist the help of others. Self-evaluation is helpful, but evaluation from someone else is essential. You need a leadership coach. Coaching enables a leader to go further faster.

Progress requires change.

A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.

There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

I believe you have to keep the theological standard high; the Lord said, 'Be perfect,' and the leaders have to be striving for that standard with all there is in them.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it

It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them.