- Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it. »
- Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. »
- 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 higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. »
- Leadership excellence requires a balanced mix of paradoxes. Leaders need to be visionary yet practical, teachers yet learners, and believers yet open-minded. »
- The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. »
- Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. »
- The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. »
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