#leadership

Leadership does not depend on being right. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#depend #does #leadership #right

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves. ↗

— E. Joseph Cossman

#ahead #business #get #life #others

We should see the leadership from the White House setting dates certain for certain goals of achieving greater alliance on alternative and renewable energy sources, but we are not. ↗

— Ron Kind

#alliance #alternative #certain #dates #energy

As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us. ↗

— Peter King

#arabia #as far as #dead #either #far

I think that if Republicans are given the reins of leadership in the House or Senate or both, we will have to govern in a way - at least put forward solutions whether or not the president goes along with them or not, that deal with these long-term challenges. ↗

— John Thune

#both #challenges #deal #forward #given

It is no longer just engineers who dominate our technology leadership, because it is no longer the case that computers are so mysterious that only engineers can understand what they are capable of. There is an industry-wide shift toward more "product thinking" in leadership--leaders who understand the social and cultural contexts in which our technologies are deployed. Products must appeal to human beings, and a rigorously cultivated humanistic sensibility is a valued asset for this challenge. That is perhaps why a technology leader of the highest status--Steve Jobs--recently credited an appreciation for the liberal arts as key to his company's tremendous success with their various i-gadgets. ↗

— Damon Horowitz

#computers #engineers #human-beings #humanism #leaders

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation. ↗

— Alan Autry

#courage #decisions #generation #leadership #make

Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership. ↗

— Thomas Menino

#city #destiny #leadership #our #preparing

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way. ↗

— Henry Miller

#content #lead #leader #need #point

We have now under President Obama's leadership had 29 months in a row of private sector job growth. That stretch of positive private sector job growth hasn't happened since 2005. We still have a long way to go, but we are moving in the right direction. ↗

— Martin O'Malley

#go #growth #had #happened #hasn