#leaders

Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too! ↗

— Tom Peters

#being #conned #follow #instead #leaders

The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#around #congressional #journalism #leaders #other

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#congressional #equivalent #journalism #journals #laureates

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. ↗

— Colin Powell

#bringing #care #case #concluded #confidence

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand. ↗

— Colin Powell

#always #argument #cut #debate #doubt

I have run a general election campaign pregnant and ran Ed Miliband's leadership campaign commuting to London with a new baby so I already have my system set up. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#baby #campaign #commuting #ed #election

It's not a matter of if economies around the world becoming low-carbon, but when and how: through struggle and strife or through advancement and progressive leadership. Larry Elliot described it today as the 'Green New Deal.' It's a leadership we in Britain can provide, and from which our economy can benefit. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#around #becoming #benefit #britain #deal

Like many of my friends and colleagues, I can't get enough of Obama news; latest polling, speeches, visits, reaction of world leaders. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#enough #friends #get #i #latest

People rightly want our political leaders - on all sides - to concentrate on minimising the damage to jobs, living standards and our savings from the banking crisis. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#concentrate #crisis #damage #jobs #leaders

It is proclaimed by the great leaders of that party, by its political conventions, by its ministers of the Gospel, and by every other means they have of giving currency and importance to the declaration, that it is its mission to abolish slavery in the Union. ↗

— John H. Reagan

#conventions #currency #declaration #every #giving