Leadership
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The capacity to create a compelling vision and translate it into action and sustain it.
Director (April 1991)
Leadership can be felt throughout an organization. It gives pace and energy to the work and empowers the workforce.
An Invented Life (1993)
Leaders walk their talk; in true leaders there is no gap between the theories they espouse and their practice.
Business (October 1990)
Leaders articulate and define what has previously remained implicit or unsaid, then they invent images, metaphors, and models that provide a focus for new attention.
Leaders (1985)
Leaders are almost like midwives of ideas. They really understand what is going on. You know when you come to them with an idea, they aren't going to just say, 'Well, that's nice, and maybe we can use that.'
Interview, Strategy + Business (1997)
Leaders configure the context while managers surrender to it.
'Managing the Dream,' Training Management (1990)
Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future. Engagement may have been optional in the past, but it's pretty much the whole game today.
Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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