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The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that goS with it.
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The Culture Perspective of Leadership - Nu Leadership Series
By: Daryl Green
"Wealth in the new regime flows directly from innovation, not optimization; that is, wealth is not gained by perfecting the known, but by imperfectly seizing the unknown."
Kevin Kelly
People often use the term 'natural born leader'. However, we now need to understand that neither leaders nor leadership theory are borne in a
vacuum. We will analyze these variables for impacts on leadership theory.
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News |
Leadership
Intelligence - Infusion
Asia's Change Leadership Guru and founder of the Directive Communication Methodology, ARTHUR F. CARMAZZI is now accepting applications for the 12 people who will join Asia’s most exclusive Leadership Boot Camp at Arthur's Villa in Bali
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The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restrain enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
- Theodore Roosevelt -
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People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those people who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way?
- Oliver Wendell Holmes -
DR. HOLMES had much to say in his writings of the problems of heredity, and was apparently as ready to recognize the caprices as the regular action of inherited tendencies. He may have speculated over his own descent when he wrote, in The Poet at the Breakfast-Table, "The various inherited instincts ripen in succession. You may be nine tenths paternal at one period of your life, and nine tenths maternal at another. All at once the traits of some immediate ancestor may come to maturity unexpectedly on one of the branches of your character, just as your features at different periods of your life betray different resemblances to your nearer or more remote relatives."
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Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
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The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
- Ralph Nader -
Ralph Nader was born in Winsted, Connecticut to Nathra and Rose Nader, Lebanese immigrants who operated a restaurant and bakery. Nader's dream of becoming a "people's lawyer" was instilled in him in adolescence by his parents, who in noisy free-for-alls, conducted family seminars on the duties of citizenship in a democracy. Mark Green, a former Nader associate, said that "When (the Naders) sat around the table growing up it was like the Kennedys. Except that the subject was not power but justice."
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Leadership is not manifested by coercion, even against the resented. Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any measures.
- Margaret Chase Smith - |
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 - |
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.
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No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
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It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. (Absurdum est ut alios regat, qui seipsum regere nescit.)
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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 -
Warren Gameliel Bennis ( March 8 , 1925 - ), also known as "Warren J. Bennis", is one of the foremost authorities on organizational development, leadership and change as a lecturer , management and leadership theorist , and writer . Born in New York City , he is currently University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at the University of Southern California . He is also the chairman of the board of directors at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government's Center for Public Leadership.
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Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there; they cause change. They motivate and inspire others to go in the right direction and they, along with everyone else, sacrifice to get there.
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Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
- Norman Schwarzkopf -
Norman Schwarzkopf From childhood, H. Norman Schwarzkopf dreamed of a military career. His father, had gone to West Point and served in World War I. When the United States entered World War II, Schwarzkopf senior returned to active duty and rose to the rank of brigadier general. At war's end, General Schwarzkopf was stationed in Iran, where he helped organize and train the national police force. Twelve year-old Norman and the rest of the family joined him there in 1946. www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/sch0bio-1
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Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement.
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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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