Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.
Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.
Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.
Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.
Leadership is influence. It is the ability to obtain followers. When the leader lacks confidence, the followers have no commitment. A leader is great not because of his power, but because of his ability to empower others.
If you're a leader, do everything you can to grow yourself and create the right environment for others to grow.
The more intentional you are about your leadership growth, the greater your potential for becoming the leader you’re capable of being. Never stop learning.
While a good leader sustains momentum, a great leader increases it.
The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
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.
Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.
What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
Leadership is communicating people’s worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it themselves.
Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won’t ever be perfect – but in the process we will achieve greatness.
When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.
Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It’s about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.
Leadership is not about executive position or title. It is about connection and influence. At its highest, leadership is all about adding value to the world and blessing lives through the work you do.
Servant-leader ship is all about making the goals clear and then rolling your sleeves up and doing whatever it takes to help people win. In that situation, they don’t work for you, you work for them.