We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it no real success is possible no matter whether it is on a section gang a football field in an army or in an office.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.
Great companies in the way they work start with great leaders.
The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
Leaders grasp nettles.
Today a reader tomorrow a leader.
I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much.
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
I had a fear of becoming anything a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor but if you become a doctor that's your specialty in life and you are defined by it. One of the attractions of being a writer is that you're never a specialist. Your field is entirely open your field is the entire human condition.