Leadership is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not ‘making friends and influencing people,’ that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.
Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It’s about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.
Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
Leadership is liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and humane way possible.
Leadership is inspiring extraordinary people to step up and serve their country.
Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.
Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.
Leadership is an individual sport, one that has to be fine-tuned to each of the people that reports to you. Leaders also need to provide the direction, energy, encouragement and inspiration for each person who reports directly to the leader as well as for the overall organisation.
Leadership is an ever-evolving position.
Leadership is an active role; ‘lead’ is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout and in a powerful hurry.
Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been.
Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mid-action.
Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.
Leadership is about making the right decision and the best decision before, sometimes, it becomes entirely popular.
Leadership is about having the courage to go against the advice of the so-called experts and doing what your instinct tells you is right.
Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.
Leadership is about creating, day by day, a domain in which we and those around us continually deepen our understanding of reality and are able to participate in shaping the future. This, then, is the deeper territory of leadership – collectively ‘listening to what is wanting to emerge in the world, and then having the courage to do what is required.
Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.
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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
