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The significant problems we face cannot be solved at
the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein
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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind
him in other men the conviction and will to carry on.
- Walter J. Lippmann
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Leadership should be born out of the understanding of
the needs of those who would be affected by it.
- Marian Anderson
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You may have afresh start any moment you choose, for
this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying
down. - Mary Pickford
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People are more easily led than driven.
- David Harold Fink
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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose
sides. It must bring sides together. - Jesse Jackson
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What is character but the determination of incident ,
what is incident but the illustration of character?
- Henery James
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The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk
even more.
- Erica Jong
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No man will make a great leader who wants to do it
all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.
- Andrew Carnegie
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The first responsibility of a leader is to define
reality.- Max DePree The Art of Leadership
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Processes don't do work, people do.- John Seely Brown
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Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in
attitude and in actions. -Harold Geneen
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The task of the leader is to get his people from
where they are to where they have not been.- Henry Kissinger
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The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards
they set for themselves.- - Ray Kroc, Founder of McDonald's
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Jingshen is the Mandarin word for spirit and
vivacity. It is an important word for those who would lead, because above
all things, spirit and vivacity set effective organizations apart from
those that will decline and die.- James L. Hayes Leadership
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Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge
process. - Harold Geneen
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine
percent perspiration. - Thomas Alva Edison
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You can use all the quantitative data you can get,
but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and
judgment. -Alvin Toffler
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Remember that it is far better to follow well than to
lead indifferently.- John G. Vance
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The only real training for leadership is leadership. - Anthony Jay
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Quality has to be caused, not controlled.
- Philip Crosby Reflections on Quality
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Probably my best quality as a coach is that I ask a
lot of challenging questions and let the person come up with the answer. - Phil Dixon
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Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and
reality. If you can dream it you can make it so. - Belva Davis
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The future is taking shape now in our own beliefs and
in the courage of our leaders. Ideas and leadership -- not natural or
social 'forces' -- are the prime movers in human affairs. - George Roche
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The art of leading, in operations large or small, is
the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men,
of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a
square facing toward their own problems. - S. L. A. Marshall
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And when we think we lead, we are most led. -Lord Byron
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Never hire or promote in your own image. It is
foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness.
It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective,
ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare,
for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.- Dee W. Hock
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... As we, the leaders, deal with tomorrow, our task
is not to try to make perfect plans. ...Our task is to create organizations that are
sufficiently flexible and versatile that they can take our imperfect plans
and make them work in execution. That is the essential character of the
learning organization.
- Gordon R. Sullivan & Michael V. Harper
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In matters of style, swim with the current; In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- T. Jefferson
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If you think you can do a thing or that you cannot do
a thing, in either case you are right. - Henry Ford
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When nothing is sure, everything is possible.- Margaret Drabble
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Think of managing change as an adventure. It tests
your skills and abilities. It brings forth talent that may have been
dormant. Change is also a training ground for leadership. When we think of
leaders, we remember times of change, innovation and conflict. Leadership
is often about shaping a new way of life. To do that, you must advance
change, take risks and accept responsibility for making change happen.
- Charles E. Rice, CEO of Barnett Bank
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