The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, "Wrong jungle!" But how do the busy, efficient producers and managers often respond? "Shut up! We're making progress!"
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The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
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The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.
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No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.
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I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.
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The good teacher.. Discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them by the stimulating influence of the inspiration that he can impart. The true leader makes his followers twice the men they were before.
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Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.
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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
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Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says Go! A leader says Let's go!
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The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' a leader says, 'Let's go!'.
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Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.
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A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be.
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A student is not a professional athlete... He is not a little politician or junior senator looking for angles.. An amateur promoter, a glad-hander, embryo Rotarian, caf-society leader, quiz kid or man about town. A student is a person who is learning to fulfill his powers and to find ways of using them in the service of mankind.
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We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
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Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.
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Today a readertomorrow a leader.
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A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
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If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.
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You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.
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The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
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The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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