Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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.
Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.
Leadership is not a popularity contest; it’s about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title.
It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.
Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
Leadership is having a compelling vision, a comprehensive plan, relentless implementation, and talented people working together.
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role – some people can do it, and some people can’t.
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you’re in control, they’re in control.
Leadership is not about you; it’s about investing in the growth of others.
A leader who is confused or confusing causes too much anxiety, and a leader who is too controlling is revealing more insecurity and a lack of leadership.
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.
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It’s about stimulating them. It’s about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve – and to do that with a purpose.
I very much believe in values-based leadership and that the values that I believe in and try to govern by are transcendent values.
One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I’d like to see that change by walking the walk.
As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.
I am deeply honored by the trust the board has placed in me to lead Duke Energy. I have a high degree of confidence in the strength of our company’s leadership and dedicated employees.
You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.
Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.
Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.
