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...once you recognize, or admit, that your primary goal is to fully express yourself, you will find the means to achieve the rest of your goals... ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

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Exercising leadership is an expression of your aliveness... But when you cover yourself up, you risk losing something as well. In the struggle to save yourself, you can give up too many of those qualities that are the essence of being alive, like innocence, curiosity, and compassion. ↗

— Ronald A. Heifetz

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It's a matter of reducing the work to its very simplest possible state, eliminating all of the things that lead away from the guts of the work, the thing the work is really about. Anything that's there must build towards its over-all organization and meaning. ↗

— Paul Cullen

#anything #away #build #eliminating #guts

After Peter came to recognize his own inadequacy, his utter inability to fulfill his destiny apart from obedience to his only true responsibility, he became a rock-solid leader. As his story unfolds in the book of acts, we can clearly see that when Peter kept his eyes on Jesus and followed Him, others followed to. And they followed by the thousands. Needed today: more Peters. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#leadership #peter #leadership

Bailey might not have great intelligence or abilities, but his whole aim, thought and study was that of the born leader--to look out for himself; and he did it with that born-leader's confidence and intensity that draws along the ordinary uncertain man, who soon confuses his own interest and his own safety with that of the leader. ↗

— James Gould Cozzens

#intelligence

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. ↗

— Barack Obama

#obama #unity #world-unity #leadership

As Antiquus's son, I was next in line to be the leader of my village... But leadership is not inherited. It is earned through action. ↗

— Tony DiTerlizzi

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a true leader must be able to command with an iron fist, not just a humble heart. ↗

— Evan Meekins

#fantasy-fiction #fiction #humility #leadership #strength

The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#despair #hope #leadership

Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

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