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To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership-not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere.Collection: Leadership
Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.Collection: Leadership
the moment you stop learning, you stop leading.Collection: Leadership
It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there.Collection: Leadership
How you spend your time defines who you are.Collection: Leadership
Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant.Collection: Leadership
To all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand.Collection: Leadership
If you're not remarkable, you're invisible.Collection: Leadership
Without a terrific leader, you're not going to have a Great Group. But it is also true that you're not going to have a great leader without a Great Group.Collection: Leadership
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation. Someone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there's any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it's surprise and the unexpected. Truly, we are living in world where the only thing that's constant is change.Collection: Leadership
I'd always rather err on the side of openness. But there's a difference between optimum and maximum openness, and fixing that boundary is a judgment call. The art of leadership is knowing how much information you're going to pass on - to keep people motivated and to be as honest, as upfront, as you can. But, boy, there really are limits to that.Collection: Leadership
True leadership will not be measured by the ability to muzzle dissent, or to intimidate and harass political opponents at home. The people of the world want change. They will not long tolerate those who are on the wrong side of history.Collection: Leadership
The goal of an effective leader is to recondition your team to be solution focused rather than problem focused.Collection: Leadership
Now let's make two things clear: ISIL is not 'Islamic.' No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of ISIL's victims have been Muslim. And ISIL is certainly not a state. It was formerly al Qaeda's affiliate in Iraq, and has taken advantage of sectarian strife and Syria's civil war to gain territory on both sides of the Iraq-Syrian border. It is recognized by no government, nor the people it subjugates. ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.Collection: Leadership
They lead only as the carved wooden figurehead leads the ship.Collection: Leadership
Service is a limitless opportunity, it is the reason why we breathe.Collection: Leadership
The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.Collection: Leadership
When a highly successful leader retires after a long career, it is very unlikely that his successor will be of comparable caliber. Anyone of similar ability and drive would have gone somewhere else, instead of waiting in the wings for years for a chance to show his own leadership.Collection: Leadership
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.Collection: Leadership
We are now spending half a trillion dollars on foreign oil, importing 62 percent of the oil we use, and we haven't had the leadership in D.C. to do anything about it. We've got to move to other sources of energy. But we've gotten way behind, and will continue to pay the fiddler. It's not a good future.Collection: Leadership
We do not see the world as it is. We see the word as we are.Collection: Leadership
When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.Collection: Leadership
I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situationCollection: Leadership
The leadership spirit possess a natural love for all human beings.Collection: Leadership
No matter who you are, you have the nature and capacity for leadership.Collection: Leadership
Leadership is inherent in our nature and is fundamental to our origins, our human makeup -and our destiny.Collection: Leadership
Lasting change can occur only when it takes in the spirit of the mind.Collection: Leadership
True leadership is an attitude that naturally inspires and motivates others, and it comes from an internalized discovery about yourself.Collection: Leadership
The leadership spirit comes with a spirit of leadership.Collection: Leadership
True leaders respect and honor authority but are comfortable in its presence.Collection: Leadership
The self-discovery of your inherent leadership potential and an understanding of who you are and what you are meant to be are the keys to fulfilling your purpose from existence as a leader.Collection: Leadership
We have no patent on anything we do and anything we do can be copied by anyone else. But you can't copy the heart and the soul and the conscience of the company.Collection: Leadership
Effective leaders share two intertwined attributes: an unbridled level of confidence about where their organizations are headed, and the ability to bring people along.Collection: Leadership
All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power. If you want to govern the people, you must place yourself below them. If you want to lead the people, you must learn how to follow them. The Master is above the people, and no one feels oppressed. She goes ahead of the people, and no one feels manipulated. The whole world is grateful to her. Because she competes with no one, no one can compete with her.Collection: Leadership
A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring.Collection: Leadership
Masterly retreat is in itself a victory.Collection: Leadership
Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on which men likehimself struggle, with unflagging, pathetic hope, toward better things.... He is a guide, a counselor, a mentor, a servant, a friend of mankind.Collection: Leadership
Drum sound rises on the air, its throb, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, "I know you're tired, but come. This is the way.Collection: Leadership
The best way to support dreams and stretch is to set apart small ideas with big potential, then give people positive role models and the resources to turn small projects into big businesses.Collection: Leadership
I hope that the responsible figures in the Ukrainian leadership will not hinder soldiers in the Ukrainian army from putting down their weapons, if they aren't capable of taking that decision themselves and giving that order, then I hope that they won't prosecute people who want to save their lives and the lives of others.Collection: Leadership
Therapy is the boat across the river, but most don't want to get off. Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healingCollection: Leadership
I am often asked if leaders are born or made. The answer, of course, is both. Some characteristics, like IQ and energy, seem to come with the package. On the other hand, you learn some leadership skills, like self-confidence, at your mother's knee, and at school, in academics and sports. And you learn others at work-trying something, getting it wrong and learning from it, or getting it right and gaining the self-confidence to do it again, only better.Collection: Leadership
Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.Collection: Leadership
I don't think Edward Snowden deserves a death penalty or life in prison. I think that's inappropriate. I think that's why he fled, [because] that is what he faced.Collection: Leadership
The man whose authority is recent is always stern.Collection: Leadership
An expert is an ordinary fella away from home.Collection: Leadership
Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.Collection: Leadership
Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack.Collection: Leadership