#leaders

A critical element in nearly all effective social movements is leadership. For it is through smart, persistent, and authoritative leaders that a movement generates the appropriate concepts and language that captures the frustration, anger, or fear of the group's members and places responsibility where it is warranted. ↗

— David E. Wilkins

#hank-adams #leadership #social-movements #anger

The dirtier your Bible, the cleaner your heart! ↗

— Victor Manuel Rivera

#freedom #leadership #freedom

The world is starving for leaders who are not afraid to dismantle the sacred and precious beliefs, which hold us as prisoners of the past. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#freedom #leadership #freedom

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done. ↗

— Vance Packard

#art #convinced #done #getting #leadership

IBM has taken a leadership role in this area and is prepared to be a technology partner with companies around the world to take advantage of these new developments. ↗

— John Patrick

#area #around #companies #developments #ibm

For a patrimonial state to be stable over time, it is best ruled with consent, at least with consent from the largest minority, if not from the majority. Instinctive obedience must be the norm, otherwise too much effort needs to be put into suppressing disaffection for the regime's wider aims to be achievable. Consent is, however, not always easy to obtain. The collective view of most societies is rather conservative: in the main people prefer to see the social arrangements of their youth perpetuated into their old age; they prefer that things be done in the time-honoured way; they are suspicious of novelty and resistant to change. Thus when radical action must be taken, for whatever reason, a great burden falls on the ruler, the father-figure, who has to overcome this social inertia and persuade his subjects to follow his lead. In order that his will shall prevail, he needs to generate huge respect, preferably adulation, and if at all possible sheer awe among his people. ↗

— Paul Kriwaczek

#leadership #political-stability #age

And a young prince must be prudent like that, giving freely while his father lives so that afterwards, in age when fighting starts steadfast companions will stand by him and hold the line. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#gifts #leadership #seamus-heaney #age

When you put together deep knowledge about a subject that intensely matters to you, charisma happens. You gain courage to share your passion, and when you do that, folks follow. ↗

— Jerry Porras

#leadership #meaning #courage

You're a leader. It's your job to keep your passion hot. Do whatever you have to do, read whatever you have to read, go wherever you have to go to stay fired up. And don't apologize to anybody.  ↗

— Bill Hybels

#leadership #courage

In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be, by remaining what we are. ↗

— Max DePree

#leadership #art