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“As humans, we unconsciously embrace the group’s beliefs and behaviors without questioning them or surrender to their opinions.”
“If you are interested in equality at all costs, you should never have gone looking for your power in the first place. Holding authority with integrity is more important than making others feel good.”
“Leaders are passionate about the Purpose, while Managers need to be passionate about the Results!”
“No! Leadership is not the business of people who need to be motivated!”
“Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the good citizen should be: partisans but never zealots, respectors of the facts which attend each situ...”
“It's beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one can lie at crucial moments.”
“Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing, and don’t ...”
“Power isn’t control at all — power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn’t someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength t...”
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each”
“Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.”
“A leader is a dealer in hope.”
“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.”
“Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving. Jesus said, “For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45).”
“I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep”
“Real leaders are people who “help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves t...”
“Leading people is like cookingDon’t stir too much It annoys the ingredients And spoils the food”
“Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty”
“Stories are the single most powerful weapon in a leader’s arsenal”
“Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.”
“The president had shifted to the 'we' mode now, something he invariably did when a potentially unpopular decision was at hand. For the easy ones, it was always 'I.' When he needed a crutch, and esp...”
