#lead

Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. But with the best leaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will say 'We have done this ourselves. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#leadership

You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led. ↗

— Stan Laurel

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A person who cannot handle setbacks will never handle victories either. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

#overcoming #leadership

The essential difference with Builders is that they've found something to do that matters to them and are therefore so passionately engaged, they rise above the personality baggage that would otherwise hold them down. Whatever they are doing has so much meaning to them that the cause itself provides charisma and they plug into it as if it was electrical current. ↗

— Jerry Porras

#leadership #meaning #leadership

How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselves. Plants always remain small under a big tree. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#hinduism #independence #leadership #vedanta #leadership

To be accountable means that we are willing to be responsible to another person for our behavior and it implies a level of submission to another's opinions and viewpoints. ↗

— Wayde Goodall

#leadership #submission #leadership

Leaders in OVER their heads is the mere result of getting ahead of their intended SEASON. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#church #inspirational #john-paul #john-paul-warren #john-warren

To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader. ↗

— Howard Schultz

#leadership #leadership

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#also #certain #exclusively #generalizations #human

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the Ready- Aim-Aim-Aim Syndrome. You must be willing to fire ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

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