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“Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist.”
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
“Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel!”
Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
“The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'. They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but 'we' gets the credit.... This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.”
Peter F. Drucker
“Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highlyof them, when instead they should try to get their people tothink more highly of themselves.It’s wonderful when the people believe in their leader.It’s more wonderful when the leader believes in their people!You can’t hold a man down withoutstaying down with him.— Booker T. Washington”
Booker T. Washington
“Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.”
Warren G. Bennis
“The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born -- that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.”
“Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on.”
Walter Lippmann
“The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.”
Thomas J. Peters
“Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome.”
John Kotter
