If you'd like to improve your leadership
skills, consider the following words of wisdom and then get busy implementing
them!
Leadership is…
"Leadership, like coaching, is fighting for the hearts and souls of men,
and getting them to believe in you."
Eddie Robinson
"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. You
can’t blow an uncertain trumpet."
Theodore Hesburgh
"Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about
it."
Henry Mintzberg
"A leader is a dealer in hope."
Napoleon
"It takes leaders with vision to help people with dreams."
Hubert Humphrey
Great Leaders Take
Decisive Action
"Leadership is action, not position."
D. H. McGannon
"Leadership must be demonstrated, not announced."
Fran Tarkenton
"Leadership is an action, not a word."
Richard F. Cooley
"Nobody wants to follow somebody who doesn’t know where he’s
going."
Joe Namath
Great Leaders
Take Charge…
"When placed in charge, take control."
Norman Schwarzkopf
"Nothing is more important in war than unity of command."
Napoleon
"I learned a big secret of winning a long time ago: somebody has to be
in charge."
Red Auerbach
"If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on
anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing."
Margaret Thatcher
"How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?"
Harry Truman
Great Leadership
Requires a Balance Between Planning and Action
"Management has no choice but to anticipate the future,
to attempt to mold it, and to balance short-range and long-range goals."
Peter F. Drucker
"It is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all."
Winston Churchill
"The difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has
better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas,
to take a calculated risk — and to act."
Maxwell Maltz
"The best plan is only a plan, that is, good intentions, unless it
degenerates into work."
Peter F. Drucker
"The critical ingredient is getting out there and doing something. It's as
simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do
something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. Be a doer, not
a dreamer."
Nolan Bushnell
