“A leader’s role is to raise people’s aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.”

David R. Gergen

7 ways for leaders to send out a powerful and positive message: Themselves!

1. Leaders manage the process, but lead people
2. Leaders inspire people, they don’t just drive them
3. Leaders are easy to respect and look up to
4. Leaders are easy to like and get along with
5. Leaders help people to like themselves
6. Leaders help people to believe that what they’re doing is important
7. Leaders are responsive to people

- Nido Qubein

"Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time in leading yourself—your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. Invest at least 20% leading those with authority over you and 15% leading your peers."

— Dee Hock
Founder and CEO Emeritus, Visa

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
-Peter F Drucker

”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

Cardinal rules of Leadership:
1. Praise in Public, Criticize in Private
2. Praise for What's Right and Train for What's Wrong

“He that cannot obey, cannot command.”

Benjamin Franklin

If you want to manage somebody, manage yourself. Do that well and you'll be ready to stop managing. And start leading.

Leadership is not manifested by coercion, even against the resented. Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any measures.

Margaret Chase Smith

Make heroes out of the employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.
- Anita Roddick

~ Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves. ~

Joseph P. Thompson

The role of the leader is to recognize the future.
The role of the leader is to find the future.
The role of the leader is to secure the future.

~ Victory becomes, to some degree, a state of mind. Knowing ourselves superior to the anxieties, troubles, and worries which obsess us, we are superior to them. ~

Basil King

You must unite your constituents around a common cause and connect with them as human beings.

James Kouzes and Barry Posner