Leader
Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.
The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
I would say that nobody is going to work harder for your career than yourself — the one with the vision. No matter how many people you hire, nobody is going to get is as much as yourself does. So it's really important to be your own leader at all times and not hand it all off, otherwise the whole empire will fall apart.
There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
There's an art to asking questions. Briefings are valuable but normally communicate primarily what the subordinate leader wants you to know, and often the picture they provide is incomplete.
Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future. Engagement may have been optional in the past, but it's pretty much the whole game today.
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.
No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better — because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.
The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
To most people, paranoia carries a negative connotation. I believe it is one of the most valuable attributes a leader can have. It is about self-reflection and having the courage, humility, and discipline to constantly ask uncomfortable questions that can potentially poke holes in your strategy and challenge your conventional thinking.
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