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Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.

Russel Honore

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

Bill Bradley

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Peter Drucker

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.

John Wooden

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

John C. Maxwell

Showing leadership doesn't mean every employee will run the organization; that would lead to chaos. Businesses do need someone to set the vision and then lead the team to it.

Robin S. Sharma

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Warren Bennis

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

Cyril Falls

Leadership is more about clarity than it is about control.

Mark Goulston

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

John C. Maxwell

Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy.

Michael Bergdahl

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

John C. Maxwell

Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.

Chris Hadfield

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

Harold S. Geneen

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Leadership is an act of submission to God. To be a leader means listening to all kinds of people and situations. Out of that listening, we are hoping to discern the mind of God as best we can. This is the price of leadership - it's an act of sacrifice. So leadership is part and parcel of the work of submission to God.

Richard Foster

One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.

Jim Yong Kim

Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone's life, no matter what the project.

Bill Owens

I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.

Margaret J. Wheatley

There is a sense of call to take leadership roles. You're serving people and submitting to God as best you can.

Richard Foster

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Stephen Covey

The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?

Max de Pree

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.

Seth Berkley

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it.

John C. Maxwell

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

Ken Blanchard

Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.

Louis Farrakhan

Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.

Simon Sinek

The essence of leadership is essentially taking the responsibility of trying to interpret the future to the present.

Paul Keating

The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.

Bryant H. McGill

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.

John P. Kotter

Despite the increasingly presidential style of political leadership in our country, teamwork is essential.

Bob Ainsworth

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

Deepak Chopra

I've learned that positive thinking and encouragement are essential for leadership and progress.

Richard M. DeVos

Leadership is influence.

John C. Maxwell

Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.

Cheryl Crawford

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

John D. Rockefeller

A mentor is someone with a willingness to help others, who has a capacity to inspire, a determination to work hard, a clear sense of vision, an inspiring purpose, a deep sense of integrity and an appreciation for joy.

Kerry Kennedy

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Jim Rohn

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

Harold S. Geneen

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

In times of uncertainty, employees crave clarity. As a leader, you won't always have all of the answers - no one expects you to - so you must be open to listening and learning from others. Once you understand a particular challenge and outline the options, you have to be confident in making bold and optimistic decisions.

Marillyn Hewson

Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.

Garry Wills

The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.

Garry Wills

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

Vance Packard

Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

Mitt Romney

I fell in love with the topic of leadership. For three decades, that has been a major focus of my hands-on work: listening to and working with leaders, their teams and their organizations.

Henry Cloud

There are a lot of good men out there who just need a little direction and leadership in order for them to offer what they have to young men and boys.

John Eldredge

True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.

Bill Owens

Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

Paul Keating

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Tom Peters

I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential.

Denise Morrison

An important part of leadership is being able to hold two things in your mind at once: Dealing with the reality, whatever it may be, and focus on hope for the future. Any leader helping an organization through challenges needs to be able to do both.

Alan Mulally

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.

Alan Autry