Notable Quotes:<\/p>\n
Chief Executive Pastor Jerry McClain said, \u201cThe best example of leadership is leadership by example.\u201d<\/p>\n
Albert Einstein said, \u201cSetting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.\u201d<\/p>\n
M. Kelly said, \u201cThe difference between a boss and a leader is that a boss says, \u2018Go!\u2019 while a leader says, \u2018Let\u2019s go!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
American Businessman Thomas J. Watson said, \u201cNothing so conclusively proves a man\u2019s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.\u201d<\/p>\n
John Maxwell said, \u201cA leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.\u201d<\/p>\n
Warren Bennis, Ph.D. said, \u201cManagers are people who do things right, while leaders are people who do the right thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
1st<\/sup> century Latin writer Publius Syrus said, \u201cThe greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.\u201d<\/p>\n John C. Maxwell said, \u201cLeadership is influence\u2014nothing more, nothing less.\u201d<\/p>\n Robert Clinton said, \u201cA leader is one who influences a specific group of people to move in a God-given direction.\u201d<\/p>\n Robert K. Greenleaf said, \u201cThe only test of leadership is that somebody follows.\u201d<\/p>\n Charles S. Lauer said, \u201cLeaders don\u2019t force people to follow; they invite them on a journey.\u201d<\/p>\n Keith Mullen said, \u201cLeadership is the desire and ability to inspire individual achievement, while a leader is just a guy at the top of the heap worried about his own.\u201d<\/p>\n American President Dwight D. Eisenhower said, \u201cLeadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n American President John Quincy Adams said, \u201cIf your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.\u201d<\/p>\n G. \u201cBuck\u201d Rodgers said, \u201cLeadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement.\u201d<\/p>\n John Maxwell said, \u201cThe first step to leadership is servant-hood.\u201d<\/p>\n Solon said, \u201cHe who has learned how to obey will know how to command.\u201d<\/p>\n Sam Rayburn Said, \u201cYou cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.\u201d<\/p>\n Lao Tzu said, \u201cBe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n Max De Pree said, \u201cThe first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say, \u2018Thank you.\u2019 In between, the leader is a servant.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBlessed is the leader who seeks the best for those he serves.\u201d \u2013Unknown<\/p>\n \u201cOutstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it\u2019s amazing what they can accomplish.\u201d \u2013Sam Walton<\/p>\n \u201cLeadership is getting someone to do what they don\u2019t want to do in order to achieve what they want to achieve.\u201d \u2013Tom Landry<\/p>\n \u201cA good leader inspires others with confidence in him; a great leader inspires them with confidence in themselves.\u201d \u2013Unknown<\/p>\n \u201cLeadership 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 tired of leaders who let us take liberties with them. What we need for leaders are men 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.\u201d \u2013Admiral James B. Stockdale<\/p>\n \u201cLeadership is not magnetic personality \u2014 that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people \u2014 that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person\u2019s vision to high sights, the raising of a person\u2019s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.\u201d\u2013Peter F. Drucker<\/p>\n \u201cLeadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon.\u201d \u2013James L. Fisher.<\/p>\n \u201cThe first basic ingredient of leadership is a guiding vision. The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do \u2013 professionally and personally \u2013 and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.\u201d \u2013Warren Bennis<\/p>\n \u201cThe very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It\u2019s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion.\u201d\u2013Theodore Hesburgh<\/p>\n \u201cLeadership: Seeing further down the road than those around me.\u201d \u2013Bill Gothard<\/p>\n \u201cDo not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.\u201d \u2013Emerson \u201cThere are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.\u201d \u2013Bernd Brecher<\/p>\n \u201cAll 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.\u201d \u2013John Kenneth Galbraith<\/p>\n \u201cAnyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.\u201d \u2013Publilius Syrus<\/p>\n \u201cThe ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.\u201d\u2013Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n \u201cLeadership is the ability to hide your panic from others.\u201d \u2013Unknown<\/p>\n \u201cLeaders must be tough enough to fight, tender enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes, humble enough to admit them, strong enough to absorb the pain, and resilient enough to bounce back and keep on moving.\u201d \u2013Jesse Jackson<\/p>\n \u201cThe final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.\u201d \u2013Walter Lippmann<\/p>\n \u201cHow do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a group.\u201d\u2013Sir John Harvey-Jones<\/p>\n \u201cLeadership is the ability to establish standards and manage a creative climate where people are self-motivated toward the mastery of long-term constructive goals, in a participatory environment of mutual respect, compatible with personal values.\u201d \u2013Mike Vance<\/p>\n \u201cI start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.\u201d \u2013Ralph Nader<\/p>\n \u201cGreat leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.\u201d\u2013General Colin Powell<\/p>\n \u201cNo man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or to get all the credit for doing it.\u201d \u2013Andrew Carnegie<\/p>\n The challenge of leadership is\u2026<\/p>\n \u2013Jim Rohn<\/p>\n Leadership has been described as the \u201cprocess of social influence in which one person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task.\u201d<\/p>\n A definition more inclusive of followers comes from Alan Keith of Genentech who said \u201cLeadership is ultimately about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIn its essence, leadership in an organizational role involves (1) establishing a clear vision, (2) sharing (communicating) that vision with others so that they will follow willingly, (3) providing the information, knowledge, and methods to realize that vision, and (4) coordinating and balancing the conflicting interests of all members or stakeholders.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cLeadership is the capacity to establish direction and to influence and align others toward a common goal, motivating and committing them to action and making them responsible for their performance.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cLeadership is a process in which a leader attempts to influence his or her followers to establish and accomplish a goal or goals. In order to accomplish the goal, the leader exercises his or her power to influence people. That power is exercised in earlier stages by motivating followers to get the job done and in later stages by rewarding or punishing those who do or do not perform to the level of expectation. Leadership is a continuous process, with the accomplishment of one goal becoming the beginning of a new goal. The proper reward by the leader is of utmost importance in order to continually motivate followers in the process.<\/p>\n \u201cThe new leader … is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change.\u201d\u2013Warren Bennis<\/p>\n \u201c… persons who, by word and\/or personal example, markedly influence the behaviors, thoughts and feelings of a significant number of their fellow human beings.\u201d \u2013Howard Gardner<\/p>\nLeadership is Influence<\/h3>\n
Leadership is Serving<\/h3>\n
Leadership is Lifting Others<\/h3>\n
Leadership is Vision<\/h3>\n
Leadership is Daring<\/h3>\n
\n\u201cThe task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.\u201d \u2013Henry Kissinger<\/p>\nLeadership is Courage under Pressure<\/h3>\n
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What is the definition of \u201cleadership\u201d?<\/h1>\n
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