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• Leadership: The action of leading a group of people or an organization, or the ability to do this. Oxford Dictionary
• Leadership: The position or function of a leader, a person who guides or directs a group. Dictionary.com
• Lead: To go before or with to show the way. Merriam Webster
• Lead: To guide in direction, course, action, opinion, etc. Merriam Webster
• Management,  Politics,  Influence,  Power,  Vision,  Influence,  Initiative,  Control

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Great leadership is not about domination, force or muscle

• You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can’t sit on it for long. Boris Yeltsin
• You do not lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership. Dwight Eisenhower
• I suppose that leadership at one time meant muscle; but today it means getting along with people. Indira Gandhi
• Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation. William Arthur Ward
• A leader leads by example not by Force. Sun Tzu
• Leaders don’t force people to follow—they invite them on a journey. Charles S. Lauer

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A great leader serves others

• A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs. Robert Townsend
• Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed. Mwai Kibaki
• I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential. Denise Morrison
• Whoever wants to be a leader among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first among you must be the slave of everyone else. 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. Bible
• Good leaders must first become good servants. Robert Greenleaf
• The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. Max DePree
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A great leader creates a vision for the future …

• Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. Jack Welch
• A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position. John C. Maxwell
• A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.  Ralph Nader
• In 3,300 studies of leadership, seeking the common qualities possessed by great leaders through the ages, researchers found that the one quality all the studies had in common was vision. Leaders have vision. Nonleaders do not. Leaders have a vision of a better future for themselves, their families, and their organizations. They can see an ideal future in advance. They then work to make it a reality in the present. Brian Tracy
• Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.  Rudy Giuliani
• Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. Warren Bennis
• The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision. Ken Blanchard
• The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet. Reverend Theodore Hesburgh
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… in line with his / her own values

• A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values, his basic identity….one must first embark on the formidable journey of self- discovery in order to create a vision with authentic soul. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them. Colin Powell
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A great leader inspires and excites

• Inspire: Fill someone with the urge or ability to do or feel something, especially to do something creative. Oxford Dictionary
• If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, you are a leader. John Quincy Adams
• Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation. William Arthur Ward
• 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
• If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. John Quincy Adams
• A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.  Ralph Nader
• Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow. Vince Lombardi
• Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader. Dolly Parton
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A great leader empowers and strengthens others

• 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 to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own. Beth Revis
• Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn’t go to hell if you take a day off. Jeffrey Pfeffer
• True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up. Sheri L. Dew
• As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. Bill Gates

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A great leader helps people recognise and unlock their potential and become the best they can be

• The individual leads in order that those who are led can develop their potential as human beings and thereby prosper. Socrates
• It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test. Lou Holtz
• I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential. Denise Morrison
• Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better. Bill Bradley
• Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it in themselves. Stephen Covey
• A true leader is not the one with the most followers, but the one who creates the most leaders. Neale Donald Walsch
• True leaders bring out your personal best. They ignite your human potential. John Paul Warren
• A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better. Jim Rohn
• Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish. Sam Walton
• The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. Harvey Firestone
• The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already. John Buchan
• Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. Jack Welch
• 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.  Peter F. Drucker
• The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things. Ronald Reagan
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A great leader tells people where to go; not how to get there

• If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer. Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare
• Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. George S. Patton
• If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results. George S. Patton
• To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn’t know where he is going. Joe Namath

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A great leader fosters teamwork and co-operation

• 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 Drucker
• Leadership is the ability to get individuals to work together for the common good and the best possible results while at the same time letting them know they did it themselves. John Wooden
• Cooperation proves the quality of leadership. James Cash Penney
• The essence of leadership is relationship; influencing people to achieve things together that can’t be achieved alone. Leonard Sweet
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A great leader lets others take the credit for success …

• It’s amazing what can be accomplished when no-one cares who gets the credit. Tom Coughlin
• A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. Lao Tzu
• When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally. Lao Tzu
• A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit. John C. Maxwell

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… while taking responsibility for failure

• A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says, “I was beaten,” he does not say “My men were beaten.”  Antoine de Saint- Exupery
• First rule of leadership: everything is your fault. A Bug’s Life
• Accountability is the measure of a leader’s height. Jeffrey Benjamin
• Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well. Dwight D. Eisenhower
• The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on. Robert Bloch
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A great leader makes people believe in themselves

• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. Mark Twain
• Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highly of them, when instead they should try to get their people to think more highly of themselves. Booker T. Washington
• A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.
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A great leader encourages involvement and gets buy in

• The key to buy in is communication and getting input early on.
• Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment. Stephen Covey

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A great leader hires the best and delegates without micro-managing

• Hire the best. Pay them fairly. Communicate frequently. Provide challenges and rewards. Believe in them. Get out of their way – They’ll knock your socks off. Mary Ann Allison
• The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it. Theodore Roosevelt
• Hire the best people and then delegate. Carol A.Taber
• Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too. Robert Half
• It’s amazing how someone’s IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them. Timothy Ferriss
• Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Dwight Eisenhower
• Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way. Ronald Reagan
• There are those who seem to think a proof of executive ability is to be fussing around all the while. Not so. The real leader flutters not. He knows how to delegate work. He is the one who directs and, therefore, seems least busy of all. Ohio Education Monthly
• No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. Andrew Carnegie
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A great leader believes in a goal that benefits not only himself / herself, but others as well

• Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate toward some goal which they come to find desirable. Ordway Tead
• ..perhaps the most distinguishing trait of visionary leaders is that they believe in a goal that benefits not only themselves, but others as well. It is such vision that attracts the psychic energy of other people and makes them willing to work beyond the call of duty for the organization. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Strong leaders encourage you to do things for your own benefit, not just theirs. Tim Tebow
• Most important, leaders can conceive and articulate goals that lift people out of their petty preoccupations and unite them in pursuit of objectives worthy of their best efforts. John Gardner
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A great leader recognises problems early …

• One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. Arnold H. Glasgow
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… then focuses on solutions

• When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that person is crazy. Dave Barry
• Victims recite problems, leaders provide solutions. Robin S. Sharma
• Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand. Colin Powell
• Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems. Brian Tracy
• Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. Colin Powell

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A great leader shows the way

• The real leader has no need to lead – he is content to point the way. Henry Miller
• A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. John C. Maxwell
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A great leader goes first

• A leader is not someone who says: Follow me…….A leader is someone who says: I’ll go first. Neale Donald Walsch
• You can’t lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself. Gene Mauch

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A great leader inspires confidence and self-belief

• 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. Tom Landry
• A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. Russell Ewing
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A great leader re-assures

• 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. Galbraith

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A great leader inspires hope and optimism

• The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive. Joe Batten
• A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader. Daisaku Ikeda
• A leader is a dealer in hope. Napoleon Bonaparte
• Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.  Rudy Giuliani
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A great leader is willing to turn his / her back on public opinion and do what’s right

• The man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. James Crook
• How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if he had taken a poll in the land of Israel? What would have happened to the Reformation if Martin Luther had taken a poll? It isn’t polls or public opinion of the moment that counts. It’s right and wrong and leadership. Harry Truman
• Always drink upstream from the herd. Will Rogers
• Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you. Margaret Thatcher
• You cannot attain mastery by patterning yourself after another or by following custom or tradition. Sheep do that. Masters and leaders never do. Roger McDonald
• We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity. Marco Rubio

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A great leader creates positive change

• To be a leader you must be able to create positive change. John C. Maxwell
• Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they’ve always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you’re a leader, you can’t let your people hang on to the past. Richard Marcinko
• I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a “transformer” in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader. Stephen Covey
• The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. Warren G. Bennis
• Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things. Jesse Jackson
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A great leader has great influence

• Influence: The capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behavior of someone or something, or the effect itself. Oxford Dictionary
• The true measure of leadership is influence – nothing more, nothing less. John C. Maxwell
• Remember that leadership is about influence and impact, not title and accolades. Robin Sharma
• Leadership is influence. John C. Maxwell
• The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority. Kenneth H. Blanchard
• Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another. John C. Maxwell
• Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position. Brian Tracy
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A great leader is willing to make difficult decisions

• Be willing to make decisions. That’s the most important quality in a good leader. Don’t fall victim to what I call the Ready- Aim- Aim- Aim Syndrome. You must be willing to fire.  Boone Pickens
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A great leader transcends the familiar

• It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it. Henry Kissinger

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A great leader often leads from behind

• As a leader… I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a con-sensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the axiom: a leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind. Nelson Mandela
• It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.  Nelson Mandela
• To lead people, walk behind them.  Lao Tzu
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A great leader listens

• Communication can’t always follow the top-down model. With the fluidity of information in business today, leaders need to be masterful listeners; they need to be able to receive as well as send. Joseph Badaracco
• As a leader… I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Nelson Mandela
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A great leader learns

• Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach. Rosabeth Moss Kantor
• Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. John F. Kennedy
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A great leader has integrity

• Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique. James MacGregor Burns
• The supreme quality of leadership is integrity. Dwight Eisenhower
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A great leader creates more leaders

• Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders. Tom Peters
• I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. Ralph Nader

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A great leader leads by example

• A leader’s most powerful ally is his or her own example. John Wooden
• A leader leads by example not by Force. Sun Tzu
• A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.
• Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.  Albert Schweitzer
• You can’t lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself. Gene Mauch
• The best form of saying is being. Ernesto Guevara
• Each day you are leading by example. Whether you realize it or not or whether it’s positive or negative, you are influencing those around you. Rob Liano

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A great leader is far more than a cheerleader

• There is a significant difference between a leader and a cheerleader.
• In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders. Steve Allen

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Great leaders stand with their people, not above them

• To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them. Charles de Montesquieu
• I am convinced that any feeling of exaltation because we have people under us should be conquered, for I am sure that if we enjoy being over people, there will be something in our manner which will make them dislike being under us. Mary Parker Follett

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Great leaders are able to lead themselves

• Become the leader of your life. Lead yourself to where you want to be. Breathe life back into your ambitions, your desires, your goals, your relationships. Steve Maraboli
• Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. Thomas J. Watson, Sr
• You can’t lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself. Gene Mauch

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Great leaders take people where they ought to go

• A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be. Rosalynn Carter
• A leader is someone you would follow to a pace you would not go to by yourself. Joel Barker
• The task of leaders is to get their people from where they are to where they have not been. Henry Kissinger

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Great leadership requires a heartfelt commitment to help

• Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob.  It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers.  We are tired of leaders we fear, tired of leaders we love, and of tired of leaders who let us take liberties with them.  What we need for leaders are people of the heart who are so helpful that they, in effect, do away with the need of their jobs.  But leaders like that are never out of a job, never out of followers. Strange as it sounds, great leaders gain authority by giving it away. James B. Stockdale
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Great leadership has a spiritual quality

• Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention. Deepak Chopra
• If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow. Vince Lombardi
• The trajectory of authentic leadership is towards richer more powerful ways of being in the world to create and serve with integrity and joy. Eric Klein

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Here are more qualities of great leaders

• Leaders are not, as we are often led to think, people who go along with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see, whether anyone is following them. “Leadership qualities” are not the qualities that enable people to attract followers, but those that enable them to do without them. They include, at the very least, courage, endurance, patience, humor, flexibility, resourcefulness, stubbornness, a keen sense of reality, and the ability to keep a cool and clear head, even when things are going badly. True leaders, in short, do not make people into followers, but into other leaders. John Holt
• One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader’s need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process. Simon Sinek
• The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly. Jim Rohn
• To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way. Pat Riley
• Leadership has been defined as the ability to hide your panic from others.
• An effective leader allows exceptions to the rule for exceptional results or when circumstance demands. John Wooden
• I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership. Lee Iacocca
• My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence. General Montgomery
• Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. Robert Jarvik
• I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men. Lao Tzu
• Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster. Andy Grove
• I praise loudly, I blame softly. Catherine the Great
• There are three essentials to leadership: humility, clarity and courage. Fuchan Yuan
• True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well. Bill Owens
• If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles. Carl von Clausewitz
• A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops. John J Pershing
• Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers. Harry S. Truman
• Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. Eric Hoffer
• It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute. William Pollard
• Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. Peter Drucker
• The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. Tony Blair
• The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines. Charles de Gaulle
• The man who is worthy of being “a leader of men” will never complain about the stupidity of his helpers, the ingratitude of mankind nor the inappreciation of the public. These are all a part of the great game of life. To meet them and overcome them and not to go down before them in disgust, discouragement or defeat-that is the final proof of power. William J. H. Boetcker
• Self-control is a better predictor of academic success than intelligence, a stronger determinant of effective leadership than charisma, and more important for marital bliss than empathy. If we want to improve our lives, willpower is not a bad place to start. Kelly McGonigal
• Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths. John Zenger
• There is something deep within you that knows what you are here to do and the direction you must move in to find your authentic work. To follow this path is to be an authentic leader. It is your birthright. You were born with unique gifts and with a sense of excitement about contributing to the world. Eric Klein
• Leadership is not so much about technique and methods as it is about opening the heart. Leadership is about inspiration—of oneself and of others. Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes. Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others.  It is an attitude, not a routine.  Lance Secretan
• He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader. Aristotle
• A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent. Douglas MacArthur
• 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. Peter Drucker
• The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on. Walter Lippman
• The leader has to be practical and a realist yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. Eric Hoffer

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Leadership requires getting others to follow

• A man is only a leader when a follower stands beside him. Mark Brouwer
• It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead — and find no one there. Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers.
• Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow. Vince Lombardi
• To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn’t know where he is going. Joe Namath
• One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you. Dennis A. Peer
• Real leadership is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow. John C. Maxwell
• He that thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk. John C. Maxwell
• I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be. Warren Bennis

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Leadership requires energy

• Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders. Sloan Wilson

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Leadership requires personal buy in

• People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. John C. Maxwell
• No man is a leader until his appointment is ratified in the hearts and minds of his men.
• A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them. Brandon Sanderson

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Leadership requires empathy

• Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives. Oprah Winfrey
• To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. Eleanor Roosevelt
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Leadership requires action

• Leadership is action, not position. Donald H. Mc Gannon
• Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. Harold S. Geneen
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Leadership requires passion

• A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position. John Maxwell
• You have to be burning with “an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right.” If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out. Steve Jobs
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Leadership requires wisdom

• Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. Anne Bradstreet
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Leadership requires self-development and self-awareness

• Leadership development is self-development. John G Agno
• One of the most important of all personal leadership skills is self-awareness. Robin Sharma
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Leadership requires effective communication

• Communication is the real work of leadership. Nitin Nohria
• Leadership is an unbelievably hard communications job. Paul Danos
• Developing excellent communication skills is absolutely essential to effective leadership. The leader must be able to share knowledge and ideas to transmit a sense of urgency and enthusiasm to others. If a leader can’t get a message across clearly and motivate others to act on it, then having a message doesn’t even matter. Gilbert Amelio
• The art of communication is the language of leadership. James Humes
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Leadership requires getting along with people

• A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. Dwight D. Eisenhower
• I suppose that leadership at one time meant muscle; but today it means getting along with people. Indira Gandhi

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Leadership requires a sense of humor

• The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly. Jim Rohn
• The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it. Elaine Agather
• A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Leadership requires emotional intelligence

• Comparing the three domains, I found that for jobs of all kinds, emotional competencies were twice as prevalent among distinguishing competencies as were technical skills and purely cognitive abilities combined. In general, the higher a position in an organization, the more EI mattered: for individuals in leadership positions, 85 percent of their competencies were in the EI domain. Daniel Goleman
• Emotional intelligence also matters. As Dick Kovacevich of Wells Fargo says, “Above the 99th percentile of intelligence, there is an inverse correlation between leadership and intelligence.” In other words, many exceptionally intelligent leaders try to be the smartest person in the room and impose their views. They don’t get the best out of their people. Leadership is about much more than IQ, and requires you to develop yourself through the mosaic of all your experiences. Bill George
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Leadership requires character and strategy

• Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.   H. Norman Schwartzkopf
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Leadership requires innovation

• Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. Steve Jobs
• The world leaders in innovation and creativity will also be world leaders in everything else. Harold R. McAlindon
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Leadership requires the ability to teach and motivate

• Knowledge alone is not enough to get desired results. You must have the more elusive ability to teach and to motivate. This defines a leader; if you can’t teach and you can’t motivate, you can’t lead. John Wooden
• Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. John C. Maxwell
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Leadership is not the same as management

• Management works in the system. Leadership works on the system. Stephen Covey
• Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. Stephen Covey
• Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. Peter F. Drucker
• Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. Stephen Covey
• Managers have their eyes on the bottom line; leaders have their eyes on the horizon. Warren Bennis
• The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. Warren G. Bennis
• You manage things; you lead people. Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper
• Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. Tom Peters
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Leadership is not the same as being a boss

• A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. Russell Ewing
• Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says “Go!” – a leader says, “Let’s go!” M. Kelly
• A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. Russell Ewing
• There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust. Klaus Balkenhol

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Leadership is not limited to the public domain for it can also apply to thought

• While extroverts tend to attain leadership in public domains, introverts tend to attain leadership in theoretical and aesthetic fields. Outstanding introverted leaders, such as Charles Darwin, Maurie Curie, Patrick White and Arthur Boyd, who have created either new fields of thought or rearranged existing knowledge, have spent long periods of their lives in solitude. Hence leadership does not only apply in social situations, but also occurs in more solitary situations such as developing new techniques in the arts, creating new philosophies, writing profound books and making scientific breakthroughs. Janet Farrall
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Leadership is an art

• Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice. Max Dupree
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Leaders can be made

• 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. Warren G. Bennis

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Poor leadership can do great damage

• Arrogant leadership is toxic to an organization. It looks like strength but is a debilitating weakness. Ira Chaleff
• When the laws are written and administered by the most powerful leaders in a society, it is human nature for them to understand, justify, and protect the interests of themselves and people like them. Many injustices arise from this natural human failing. Jimmy Carter

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• Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong. Abraham Lincoln
• Dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms one of them’s making a poop the other one’s carrying it for him who would you assume is in charge. Jerry Seinfeld
• Dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them’s making a poop, the other one’s carrying it for him, who would you assume is in charge. Jerry Seinfeld
• First rule of leadership: everything is your fault. A Bug’s Life
• He that thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk. John C. Maxwell
• I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? Benjamin Disraeli
• I’m a good leader if you don’t try to follow me too closely.
• It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead — and find no one there. Franklin D. Roosevelt
• It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse. Adlai E. Stevenson II
• Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way. George S. Patton Jr.
• Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well. Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it. John Naisbitt
• Leadership is being the first egg in the omelet. Jarod Kintz
• Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Dwight Eisenhower
• Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes. Lewis Grizzard
• Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men – the other 999 follow women.   Groucho Marx
• Quickly, I must hurry, for there go my people and I am their leader.
• Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders. Sloan Wilson
• The problem with being a leader is that you’re never sure if you’re being followed or chased. Claire A. Murray
• There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them. Alexandre Ledru-Rollin
• They have at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. Irving Layton
• Where did they go? I’m their leader.
• You do not lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership. Dwight Eisenhower

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