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Covey, Stephen

"Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out."

Gergen, David R.

"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."

Peters, Tom

"Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing."

Hersey, Paul

"Leadership is working with and through others to achieve objectives."

Greenleaf, Robert

"Leadership is about service to others and a commitment to developing more servants as leaders. It involves co-creation of a commitment to a mission."

Cash Hanson, Lisa

"Leadership is the ability to guide others without force into a direction or decision that leaves them still feeling empowered and accomplished."

Adams, Scott

"A leader has to be somebody who's getting people to do things which don't seem to make sense to them or are not in their...

Maxwell, John C.

"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."

Walters, J. Donald

"Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance."

Drucker, Peter

"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...

Rohn, Jim

"The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not...

Ciulla, Joanne

"Leadership is not a person or a position. It is a complex moral relationship between people, based on trust, obligation, commitment, emotion,...

Kouzes, James

"Leadership is the art of mobilizing others to want to struggle for shared aspirations."

Hesburgh, Theodore

"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on...

Mason, Bob

"Leadership is simply causing other people to do what the leaders want. Good leadership, whether formal or informal, is helping other people rise to their...

Peer, Dennis

"One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you."

Drucker, Peter F.

"Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes."

Munroe, Myles

"Leadership is the capacity to influence others through inspiration motivated by passion, generated by vision, produced by a conviction, ignited by a purpose."

Berkun, Scott

"I think leadership comes from integrity--that you do whatever you ask others to do. I think there are non-obvious ways to lead. Just by...

Nader, Ralph

"I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."

Kotter, John

"Leadership defines what the future should look like, aligns people with that vision, and inspires them to make it happen, despite the obstacles."

Galbraith, John Kenneth

"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...

Seymour, Harold J.

"When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow--to the end at all costs."

Wolfgang Von Goethe, Johann

"A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together."

Buchan, John

"The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already."

Sanborn, Mark

"You don't need a title to be a leader."

Glasow, Arnold

"A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit"

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