What happens when you do not focus
“If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.”
- Unknown
Peter Drucker on leadership
“Leadership is not magnetic personality — that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not ‘making friends and influencing people’ — that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.”
-Peter […]
Sam Walton on leadership
“Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.”
-Sam Walton
What leaders must address
“All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.”
- John Kenneth Galbraith
Vince Lombardi quote
“Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character.”
-Vince Lombardi
What the leader does
“A good leader is not the person who does things right, but the person who finds the right things to do.”
-Anthony T. Dadovano
Warren Bennis tells us if leaders being born or made
“The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born — that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.”
-Warren G. Bennis
on dreams and reality
“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.”
- Douglas Everett
Eva Young on why we need to get after tasks
To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.
- Eva Young
George Bernard Shaw on a honorable life
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.
- George Bernard Shaw