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1. Great Leaders are mission inclined and ensure the survival of the vision. By making
certain that the principles of that vision are daily implemented, the Great Leader indicates
a firm grasp of the mission and visions of the organization and is in agreement with them,
making a conscious choice to submit to and support them.
2. Great Leaders are providers, oriented to whatever the individual or team cannot supply
for itself. The leader is often called to provide for needs the group is virtually unaware of.
It becomes the role of the leader to first identify the need, and then to provide a means of
fulfillment.
3. Great Leaders are motivated by the welfare of the team. The motive is never self-
promotion, self-aggrandizement. The great leader self-checks frequently. The welfare of
the team will always be in line with the greater mission, if integrity is at the base.
4. Great Leaders are always ready to provide the tools necessary for achieving the goals
of the team. Individual and team achievement furthers the purpose of the organizational
mission. Great Leaders must assess the needs and provide the tools, as well as the
instruction necessary to attain and maintain optimum productivity.
5. Great Leaders have great integrity (wholeness, soundness) and assume the role of
keeper of ethics. Leaders must articulate the ethical expectations necessary to maintain
the wholeness and soundness of the team, as well as the individual members. The two are
inseparable.
6. Great Leaders are consistently teachable. Information flows from the top. Zest for
information and knowledge will do the same. An eager to learn leader will generate
followers enthusiastic about the process as well.
7. Great Leaders are always willing to step aside rather than compromise the team. We
have established that the Great Leader is motivated by the welfare of the team rather than
his or her own agenda, and as a result, will step aside if necessary to insure it. The same
is true of the Great Leader's dedication to team unity and productivity. The leader will
never play one member against another as a tactic, realizing that unity of purpose, when
grounded in the integrity of the vision, will always lead to increased productivity and
progress.
8. Great Leaders do not take control, but accept surrendered control. Seized control will
ultimately end in rebellion and insurrection. Conversely, cooperation always follows
surrendered control, the voluntary submission to authority. (Note: sub=under, and
mission=vision, i.e., a voluntary stepping under, in a supporting capacity, to the mission
of the team, the reason for its continued existence.)
10. Great Leaders understand the difference between passion for excellence and passion
for power. Passion for excellence is fervor and zeal for fineness and quality. Passion for
power is lust and greed for control, at any cost. These two highlight the enormous
variance between Authority and Power.
Plus One...
Great Leaders always lead by example. The Great Leader is always willing, at any point,
to walk out in front of the group. The Great Leader is never merely an observer. All other
qualities will flow naturally from this characteristic at the very heart of Great Leadership.
So what makes a great corporate leader? According to Brennan, six qualities separate the
leaders from the followers:
1. Integrity: This is a deal breaker if you don't have it completely. When it comes to
governance, Brennan said, he "never did anything or asked anyone to do anything
he couldn't go home and explain to his kids."
2. A deep understanding of the business: "You can't fake it. People will know."
While you don't need to know every detail, you do have to have a good grasp of
the business.
3. Consistency: While keeping things fresh is important, leaders cannot change
direction frequently. They will lose people's confidence.
4. Willingness to admit a mistake: Everyone makes mistakes. If you're not making
any, you're not doing your job right. But Brennan emphasized the importance of
admitting your missteps -- otherwise people will not respect you.
5. The ability to listen: Good leaders must be willing to handle opinions contrary to
their own and absorb as much as they can.
6. Decisiveness: While you should listen to others' opinions, the final decision is
yours to make. Brennan said when CEOs fail, very often it's because they are not
decisive. Average tenure for a CEO has fallen from more than a decade to three
years because people lose confidence in leaders whose indecision results in
failure.
Top 7 Qualities of a Great
Leader
By Dan Lightfritz
Effective & efficient leadership is a must! The qualities I am about to share with you
are derived from the "The Trilogy of 7". This is a concept that I personally created to
help everyone master the three core fundementals of business: Marketing, Sales,
Serives.
If you are in a leadership role, regardless if you are a business owner, president of a
company, sales manager or a team leader, commit these 7 qualities of an Effective &
Efficient leader to memory and you WILL become that person.
This is a 4 part structured philosphy. First, an effective leader will LIVE THEIR
LIVES to the fullest. For example, their god, their family, and then their job.
Structure is clearly defined and the lifes are meaningful. Live your life so that
joy, peace, and the truely important things that your life has to offer are
always there for you.
Thirdly, an effective leader has LOVE in his/her life. You have two separate
areas of your life; business life and personal life. Once you leave the office,
your emotional love of someone or something must come into you world.
Whether it be your family, your friends, or a love of a hobby. Emotional bliss
is something to be cherished. Find it and keep it!
Last but not least, is to leave a LEGACY. As human beings, we all want to be
remembered, we all want to leave a legacy. How will you develop, manage,
and subsequently leave a legacy that your children, your family, and your
friends will be able to continue your vision. A great leader creates a legacy.
Create yours, then pass it on.
An effective and efficient leader does not chase down meaningless business.
In order to be a giant in your industry, a superstar, a top producer, or to
become "THE MAN/WOMAN", you must market your business to the big fish,
sell your products to the big fish, and provide exceptional service to all of the
big fish that you have capture. The effective and efficient leader builds, trains,
and maintains a dynamic sales force that embraces this concept. Sure, you
will have to go after a couple of minnows every now and then, but do not fear
marketing, selling and servicing the big fish.
Simply put, "employee dupiciation" is the secret that effective and efficient
leaders possess. They are always trying to attract success, and through this
attraction,, they will build a bullet proof organization. A effective and efficient
leader is always networking and searching for top notch, high quality
individuals to bring into their business. Always! Even if you are fully staffed,
keep planting the seeds that will make your business a continued success.
Once you have planted the seeds, you must water them, cultivate them, and
take care of them. This means that you must be a part of some networking
group, business luncheon, etc...Then, actively and consistently participate in
these activities. You and I don't know what tomorrow will bring you. If you
already have highly polished, top notch individuals in your organization, don't
you think that some other company will or may be at this moment trying to
steal them from you? What if you lost them? Are you prepared to replace
them with an equal or more qualified person? "Employee duplication" is the
key to always being an effective and efficient leader.
6. BUILD, TRAIN, AND MAINTAIN A DYNAMIC ORGANIZATION!
These are the 5 most powerful words a great leader says to themselves
everyday. There is no challenge, no situation, no problem, no hurdle that is
too great or no problem that cannot be solved. The effective and efficient
leader will always be willing to accept a new challenges, new shifts in the
market, new training techniques for the sales people, etc.
Nothing will take an effective and efficient leader down, nothing. There are 5
parts to this quote:
(#1) I (#2) CAN (#3) DO (#4) ALL (#5) THINGS
"I" is you. Only you can do all things. "CAN" is the positive mental attitude
required to be a great leader. "DO" is to actually get thing done. Make it
happen. "ALL" is everything that your are faced with on a day to day basis
gets acomplished. "Things" are anything that comes across your desk is
welcomed with open arms. Good, challenging, or indiferrent.
Leaders play a critical role during change implementation, the period from the announcement of
change through the installation of the change. During this middle period the organization is the
most unstable, characterized by confusion, fear, loss of direction, reduced productivity, and lack
of clarity about direction and mandate. It can be a period of emotionalism, with employees
grieving for what is lost, and initially unable to look to the future.
In addition to forecast and amiability, the characteristics that leader must have are ability to
recognize employees' talents, the know-how to make teams work and an open mind.
Leadership does vary to some extent as per the positions i.e. it may be slight different for
manager and different for a union leader but the basic qualities of leadership does not change.
What he can do is communicate with others in the organization about what IT can do to move the
company forward. In other words, good communication is the key for developing good business
relationships. If he can’t establish a good business working relationship, he is not going to be that
leader, that team player. He will not be able to communicate how IT can add long-term value to
the company. The modern leaders must therefore be equipped with good communication skill and
use new ways to do effective communication.
2. Honesty
The most valuable asset of a leader is honesty. He must be honest with both his employees and
the management committee. Another part of his features is integrity. Once a leader compromises
his or her integrity, it is lost. That is perhaps the reason integrity is considered the most admirable
trait. The leaders therefore must keep it "above all else."
3. Visionary outlook
Leadership qualities are different for different position. For a CIO he must be thinking for
stabilizing the current business and always looking for future scope of expansion. He has to be
able to look beyond where we are today, know where the business is going, and be able to use
that vision to move the company forward. Being able to do this is a rare skill indeed.
7. Consistency
Leadership effectiveness is impossible without consistency. Every leader has an approach that is
unique to them. Don't change your personal style radically after all; it got you in a leadership
position. Modify the rough spots but take care not to confound your staff by displaying
inconsistency. Your expectations, though subject to modification based on ever-changing
business needs, should remain as constant as possible. The business world is confusing enough
without you adding unwelcome surprises into the mix. Keep things simple and consistent.
It takes focus and confidence not to be adversely affected by criticism. Strong leaders learn the
art of listening to critics, but ultimately making decisions for the good of the department, not to
simply please the critics. The following quote sums it up nicely: "Some of the most talented
people are terrible leaders because they have a crippling need to be loved by everyone." As
rightly stated by James Schorr.
It is said, great leaders are not born, but are made. With enough willpower and desire, as well as
a ceaseless process of self-study, experience, training, and education, good leadership qualities
can be developed. As Warren G. Bennis says: "The most dangerous leadership myth is that
leaders are born - that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people
simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is
true. Leaders are made rather than born."
Leadership quotes are words spoken by men and women who have been there, seen what it is all
about, and thus they can be a great source of inspiration to us. Given below are some of the most
profound leadership quotes that portray the wisdom of some of the greatest minds in the world.
"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision." - Theodore Hesburgh
"If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch." - The Bible
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a
leader." - John Quincy Adams
"Pity the leader caught between unloving critics and uncritical lovers." - John Gardner
"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain
trumpet." - Theodore M. Hesburgh
"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants
done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it." - Theodore Roosevelt
"The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why." - Warren Bennis
"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't
necessarily want to go but ought to be." - Rosalynn Carter
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants
to do it." - Dwight Eisenhower
"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to
carry on." - Walter Lippman
"Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach." - Rosabeth
Moss Kantor
"The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes." - Tony Blair
"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." - Peter F. Drucker
"If you're not confused, you're not paying attention." - Tom Peters
"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice." - James Callaghan
"I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more
followers." - Ralph Nader
"Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too." - Robert Half
"Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out."
- Stephen Covey
"I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?" - Benjamin Disraeli
"The question, 'Who ought to be boss?', is like asking, 'Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?'
Obviously, the man who can sing tenor." - Henry Ford
"Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and
expands a vision of the future." - Edwin H. Friedman:
"Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard
work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal." - Vince Lombardi:
"Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men - the other 999 follow women." - Groucho Marx
Some sit and pontificate about whether leaders are made or born. The true leader ignores
such arguments and instead concentrates on developing the leadership qualities necessary
for success. In this article, we are going to discuss five leadership traits or leadership
qualities that people look for in a leader. If you are able to increase your skill in
displaying these five quality characteristics, you will make it easier for people to want to
follow you. The less time you have to spend on getting others to follow you, the more
time you have to spend refining exactly where you want to go and how to get there.
1. Honest
2. Forward-Looking
3. Competent
4. Inspiring
5. Intelligent
These five qualities come from Kouzes and Posner’s research into leadership that was done for the book
The Leadership Challenge.
Your skill at exhibiting these five leadership qualities is strongly correlated with people’s
desire to follow your lead. Exhibiting these traits will inspire confidence in your
leadership. Not exhibiting these traits or exhibiting the opposite of these traits will
decrease your leadership influence with those around you.
It is important to exhibit, model and display these traits. Simply possessing each trait is
not enough; you have to display it in a way that people notice. People want to see that
you actively demonstrate these leadership qualities and will not just assume that you have
them. It isn’t enough to just be neutral. For example, just because you are not dishonest
will not cause people to recognize that you are honest. Just avoiding displays of
incompetence won’t inspire the same confidence as truly displaying competence.
The focus of each of these five traits needs to be on what people see you do–not just the
things they don’t see you do. Being honest isn’t a matter of not lying–it is taking the extra
effort to display honesty.
People want to follow an honest leader. Years ago, many employees started out by
assuming that their leadership was honest simply because the authority of their position.
With modern scandals, this is no longer true.
When you start a leadership position, you need to assume that people will think you are a
little dishonest. In order to be seen as an honest individual, you will have to go out of
your way to display honesty. People will not assume you are honest simply because you
have never been caught lying.
One of the most frequent places where leaders miss an opportunity to display honesty is
in handling mistakes. Much of a leader’s job is to try new things and refine the ideas that
don’t work. However, many leaders want to avoid failure to the extent that they don’t
admit when something did not work.
There was a medium size organization that was attempting to move to a less centralized
structure. Instead of one location serving an entire city, they wanted to put smaller offices
throughout the entire metro area. At the same time, they were planning an expansion for
headquarters to accommodate more customers at the main site. The smaller remote
offices was heralded as a way to reach more customers at a lower cost and cover more
demographic areas.
Unfortunately in this situation the leadership told employees that they had planned on
closing the satellite location all along and it was just a temporary measure until
construction was completed on the larger headquarters building. While this wasn’t
necessarily true, it didn’t quite cross over into the area of lying. Within a few months the
situation was mostly forgotten and everyone moved on. Few of the employees felt that
leadership was being dishonest. However, they had passed up a marvelous opportunity to
display the trait of honesty in admitting a mistake.
Opportunities to display honesty on a large scale may not happen every day. As a leader,
showing people that you are honest even when it means admitting to a mistake, displays a
key trait that people are looking for in their leaders. By demonstrating honesty with
yourself, with your organization and with outside organizations, you will increase your
leadership influence. People will trust someone who actively displays honesty–not just as
an honest individual, but as someone who is worth following.
The whole point of leadership is figuring out where to go from where you are now. While
you may know where you want to go, people won’t see that unless you actively
communicate it with them. Remember, these traits aren’t just things you need to have,
they are things you need to actively display to those around you.
When people do not consider their leader forward-looking, that leader is usually suffering
from one of two possible problems:
When a leader doesn’t have a vision for the future, it usually because they are spending
so much time on today, that they haven’t really thought about tomorrow. On a very
simplistic level this can be solved simply by setting aside some time for planning,
strategizing and thinking about the future.
Many times when a leader has no time to think and plan for the future, it is because they
are doing a poor job of leading in the present. They have created an organization and
systems that rely too much on the leader for input at every stage.
Some leaders have a clear vision, but don’t wish to share it with others. Most of the time
they are concerned that they will lose credibility if they share a vision of the future that
doesn’t come about. This is a legitimate concern. However, people need to know that a
leader has a strong vision for the future and a strong plan for going forward. Leaders run
into trouble sharing their vision of the future when they start making promises to
individuals. This goes back to the trait of honesty. If a leader tells someone that “next
year I’m going to make you manager of your own division”, that may be a promise they
can’t keep. The leader is probably basing this promotion on the organization meeting
financial goals, but the individual will only hear the personal promise.
An organization I was working with was floundering. It seemed like everyone had a
different idea about what they were trying to achieve. Each department head was headed
in a different direction and there was very little synergy as small fiefdoms and internal
politics took their toll.
Eventually a consulting firm was called in to help fix the problem. They analyzed the
situation, talked to customers, talked to employees and set up a meeting with the CEO.
They were going to ask him about his vision for the future. The employees were excited
that finally there would be a report stating the direction for the organization.
After the meeting, the consultants came out shaking their heads. The employees asked
how the important question had gone to which the consultants replied, “we asked him,
but you aren’t going to like the answer”. The CEO had told the consultant that, while he
had a vision and plan for the future, he wasn’t going to share it with anyone because he
didn’t want there to be any disappointment if the goals were not reached.
Leaders can communicate their goals and vision for the future without making promises
that they may not be able to keep. If a leader needs to make a promise to an individual, it
should be tied to certain measurable objectives being met. The CEO in the example
didn’t realize how much damage he was doing by not demonstrating the trait of being
forward-looking by communicating his vision with the organization.
The CEO was forward-looking. He had a plan and a vision and he spent a lot of time
thinking about where the organization was headed. However, his fear of communicating
these things to the rest of the organization hampered his leadership potential.
People want to follow someone who is competent. This doesn’t mean a leader needs to be
the foremost expert on every area of the entire organization, but they need to be able to
demonstrate competency.
For a leader to demonstrate that they are competent, it isn’t enough to just avoid
displaying incompetency. Some people will assume you are competent because of your
leadership position, but most will have to see demonstrations before deciding that you are
competent.
When people under your leadership look at some action you have taken and think, “that
just goes to show why he is the one in charge”, you are demonstrating competency. If
these moments are infrequent, it is likely that some demonstrations of competency will
help boost your leadership influence.
Like the other traits, it isn’t enough for a leader to be competent. They must demonstrate
competency in a way that people notice. This can be a delicate balance. There is a danger
of drawing too much attention to yourself in a way that makes the leader seem arrogant.
Another potential danger is that of minimizing others contributions and appearing to take
credit for the work of others.
As a leader, one of the safest ways to “toot you own horn without blowing it”, is to
celebrate and bring attention to team achievements. In this way you indirectly point out
your competency as a leader. For example: “Last year I set a goal of reaching $12 million
in sales and, thanks to everyone’s hard word, as of today, we have reached $13.5
million.”
People want to be inspired. In fact, there is a whole class of people who will follow an
inspiring leader–even when the leader has no other qualities. If you have developed the
other traits in this article, being inspiring is usually just a matter of communicating
clearly and with passion. Being inspiring means telling people how your organization is
going to change the world.
A great example of inspiration is when Steve Jobs stole the CEO from Pepsi by asking
him, “Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to change
the world?” Being inspiring means showing people the big picture and helping them see
beyond a narrow focus and understand how their part fits into the big picture.
One technique to develop your ability to inspire is telling stories. Stories can be examples
from your customers, fictitious examples from your customers, or even historical fables
and myths. Stories can help you vividly illustrate what you are trying to communicate.
Stories that communicate on an emotional level help communicate deeper than words and
leave an imprint much stronger than anything you can achieve through a simple stating of
the facts.
Intelligence is something that can be difficult to develop. The road toward becoming
more intelligent is difficult, long and can’t be completed without investing considerable
time. Developing intelligence is a lifestyle choice. Your college graduation was the
beginning of your education, not the end. In fact, much of what is taught in college
functions merely as a foundational language for lifelong educational experiences.
Informally, you can develop a great deal of intelligence in any field simply by investing a
reasonable amount of time to reading on a daily basis. The fact is that most people won’t
make a regular investment in their education. Spending 30 minutes of focused reading
every day will give you 182 hours of study time each year.
For the most part, people will notice if you are intelligent by observing your behavior and
attitude. Trying to display your intelligence is likely to be counterproductive. One of the
greatest signs of someone who is truly intelligent is humility. The greater your education,
the greater your understanding of how little we really understand.
You can demonstrate your intelligence by gently leading people toward understanding–
even when you know the answer. Your focus needs to be on helping others learn–not
demonstrating how smart you are. Arrogance will put you in a position where people are
secretly hopeful that you’ll make a mistake and appear foolish.
As unintuitive as it may seem, one of the best ways to exhibit intelligence is by asking
questions. Learning from the people you lead by asking intelligent thoughtful questions
will do more to enhance your intelligence credibility than just about anything. Of course
this means you need to be capable of asking intelligent questions.
Everyone considers themselves intelligent. If you ask them to explain parts of their area
of expertise and spend the time to really understand (as demonstrated by asking
questions), their opinion of your intelligence will go up. After all, you now know more
about what makes them so intelligent, so you must be smart as well. Your ability to
demonstrate respect for the intellect of others will probably do more to influence the
perception of your intellect than your actual intelligence.
There are three main things that make a good leader. The first is that a leader must
practice what he preaches. The second is that he has to look after and protect those
around him. The third is that he must be able to develop other good leaders. I will go into
more detail about how to implement all three of these characteristics, so that you too can
become a good leader.
A good leader is excellent at practicing what he preaches. I love the quote that states,
"Your actions speak so loud that I can't hear what you are saying." The greatest leader of
all time was Jesus Christ and he was the best at practicing what he preached. This goes
back to the old proverb that says, "Live by the sword, die by the sword." This is the same
with leadership and how much a leader abides by what he says. As a good leader, how
can you expect people do what you say, when you don't even do what you say?
A good leader looks after those he wants to lead. He does this by always doing what he
can to protect them from harm, criticism, or blame from other people. People want
security, that's why they buy SUVs, put money in their 401k, and stay at the same dead
end job for years. It's integrated into our nervous system that we want to feel secure.
When you have a team of people that you are leading, it can be very powerful when they
know that you are on their side, and that you will do whatever you can to make sure that
you protect them from harm of other outside forces. A big part of being a good leader is
knowing how to take the blame when things go wrong, and how to give away credit when
things go well. A good leader knows that when things go bad or wrong, it's his
responsibility to take the blame, even if it was not his fault. And when things go well, a
good leader knows that it's his responsibility to make sure that he gives the credit to the
deserving person who did the great work. Hence, making that person look very good.
A good leader develops other good leaders. This can only be attained once a person has
first become a good leader. How can you expect to develop other good leaders, if you are
not one first? Most of this just boils down to taking the time to spend time with the
leaders that you want to develop and cultivate. By being a good mentor, you can teach
and coach them through their trials and tribulations as a young and developing leader.
Sometimes just being there to help them get back up after they have fallen is all you have
to do. One of the best ways that you can invest time, is by investing it in the relationships
of others around you.
The making of a good leader is extremely broad, so I hope that I've narrowed it down into
three simple strategies for you. If you practice what you preach, look after the others
around you, and invest time to develop other good leaders, I believe that you will be well
on your way to making yourself a good leader.
Leadership Quotations
"Great minds have purposes;
others have wishes."
- Washington Irving
Leadership Quotes:
Leadership Quotes - Quotes on Leadership - Leadership Quotations
Following are leadership quotes that will give you greater insight into
qualities that leaders have. Leaders can be counted on to keep their
commitment . . .to do their job in a dependable way. They treat their job
as a sacred trust and they know how to motivate others to greater and greater
accomplishment.
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Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
- George S. Patton
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If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be difficult to
master strategy.
- Miyamoto Mursashi
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What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man
we recognize as a towering success. They called it "temporary
defeat."
- Napoleon Hill
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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all
sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining
that state of mind known as a burning desire to win which is one
of the essentials to success.
- Napoleon Hill
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Leaders don't wait. They shape their own frontiers. The bigger the
challenge, the greater the opportunity.
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Fear stops you in your tracks. Self confidence propels you forward.
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All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim,
have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which
sometimes seemed impossible.
- Orison Swett Marden
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Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts
of men.
- Goethe
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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they
will surprise you with their ingenuity.
- General George S. Patton
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Leadership Quotes:
We should seize every opportunity to give encouragement.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
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The will to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare.
- Thane Yost
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Quotes on Leadership:
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat.
- Queen Victoria
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If you want to get the best out of someone - you must look for the
best that is in them.
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I dream of men who take the next step instead of worrying about
the next thousand steps.
- Theodore Roosevelt
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The guy who takes a chance . . . who walks the line between the
known and unknown . . . who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.
- Gordon Parks
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You will always miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take.
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Exceed expectations!
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Leadership Quotations:
I glory in conflict that I may hereafter exult in victory.
- Frederick Douglas
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Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
- Winston Churchill
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A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
- William Shedo
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Leaders are not born. They are made. They are made just like
anything else. . . through hard work. That's the price we
have to pay to achieve that goal or any goal.
- Vince Lombardi
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We only learn our limits by going beyond them. I propose that we all
commit ourselves to the process of Constant and Never-ending
Improvement - or CANI.
Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is
the cause of all success.
o Confidence
o Courage
o Integrity
o Decisiveness
o Justice
o Endurance
o Tact
o Initiative
o Coolness
o Maturity
o Improvement
o Will
o Assertiveness
o Candor
o Sense of humor
o Competence
o Commitment
o Creativity
o Self-discipline
o Humility
o Flexibility
o Empathy/Compassion
Success Quotations
Success Quotes:
Success Quotes - Quotes on Success - Success Quotations
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out
they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and
you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
- William James
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You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated
short term failures.
- Charles C. Noble
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Begin difficult things while they are easy. Do great things while
they are small. The difficult things of the world must once have
been easy. The great things must once have been small.
Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.
- Theodore Roosevelt
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The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his
enthusiasm. Let a man lose everything else in the world but
his enthusiasm and he will come through again to success.
- H. W. Arnold
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Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones
to genius.
- Elbert Hubbard
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Without goals and plans to reach them, you are like a ship
that has set sail with no destination.
- F. Dodson
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Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange
for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
- H. L. Hunt
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It is more important to know where you are going than to get there
quickly.
- Mabel Newcomber
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I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty
to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
- Helen Keller
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Your incredible brain can take you from rags to riches, from
loneliness to popularity, and from depression to happiness
and joy - if you use it properly.
- Brian Tracy
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When we set a goal, let's try to enjoy every moment of the trip
along the way.
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Find a job you love and you'll add 5 days to every week.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Our most profitable lessons are learned from failure, not success.
- Frank Davidson
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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
- Dr. George Crane
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Quotes on Success:
Shift your problems to challenges. When you have problems, you
worry about them. When you have challenges - you are working,
applying, and attacking your plan to get results. This shift in
thinking from problems to challenges is important in making
tension an asset.
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All progress is made by people dissatisfied with the way things are.
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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success
is knowing how to get along with people.
- Theodore Roosevelt
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Success Quotations:
No one can knows what he can do until he tries.
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The truly creative individual stands ready to abandon old habits
and to acknowledge that life, particularly his own unique life,
is rich with possibilities.
- Frank Baron
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Order is heaven's first law - the 1st step toward efficiency and
peace of mind.
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Make your best guess. Take the step beyond. Stand an idea
on its head. Work on one problem, but expect to discover
something else. This sums up my strategy as a scientist.
- Melvin Clan
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If you really want something, you can figure out how to make it
happen.
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Success is getting things done efficiently - getting the results you want and
being at peace with yourself and others at the same time. Using your time well
and getting things done with a clear plan is crucial to a sense of well being as
well as being successful in your life and work. Enthusiasm for your work and
discipline to do it is inseparable for great success in your life. We hope you
enjoyed the success quotes.
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Compiled by the Santa Clara University and the Tom Peters Group:
o Honest — Display sincerity, integrity, and candor in all your actions. Deceptive behavior
owned throughout the organization. Effective leaders envision what they want and how to
get it. They habitually pick priorities stemming from their basic values.
o Inspiring — Display confidence in all that you do. By showing endurance in mental,
physical, and spiritual stamina, you will inspire others to reach for new heights. Take charge
when necessary.
o Intelligent — Read, study, and seek challenging assignments.
o Fair-minded — Show fair treatment to all people. Prejudice is the enemy of justice.
Display empathy by being sensitive to the feelings, values, interests, and well-being of
others.
o Broad-minded — Seek out diversity.
o Imaginative — Make timely and appropriate changes in your thinking, plans, and
methods. Show creativity by thinking of new and better goals, ideas, and solutions to
problems. Be innovative!
There is a saying that great leaders are made not born. This should give you hope that once you
understand the characteristics of a great leader you can become one yourself. Here are a few things
that every great leader does or possesses within themselves to inspire people around them.
1. Leaders are always improving. They understand that things are changing around them and for
them to be great leader they must be changing too!
2. Great leaders inspire people around them to become better. People want to do their best because
of their leadership.
3. Leaders know how to concentrate on people's strengths and not their weaknesses. Everyone has
things that they are good at and leaders know how to bring this out in a person.
4. Leaders are pro active and not reactive. They understand the importance of leading their people
and not waiting for somebody else to get started.
5. Leaders treat people with respect and importance. They know that to get a person to do
something they need to want to do it. Treating people with respect and importance is a technique
that works for this.
6. Great leaders are self-motivated. They understand there will be ups and downs in their life and in
their business, but they stay positive and do not let outside influences affect their attitudes.
7. Leaders are well spoken. They know how to say the right thing at the right time.
8. Leaders are always prepared. They don't leave things to chance but rather they control situations
through preparation.
9. Great leaders do not have big egos. They care about others as opposed to being a self centered
individual.
10. Great leaders are great mentors. They know how to pass on the knowledge that they
themselves have personally already attained.
11. Leaders are people who write down goals and strive to achieve them. They understand the
importance of goal setting and the example that they are teaching by doing this.
12. Great leaders are ambitious hard workers. They never expect more out of the people around
them then they are willing to give themselves. This type of attitude is contagious and leads to
everybody working harder.
In summary this is 12 characteristics of a great leader. If you strive hard to do these 12 things you
yourself can become a great leader as well. By constantly working harder to do a better job of
leading those around you will become more successful in your own life and business.
2. A good leader is always enthusiastic about the cause of the people. He/she
must have the capability to see what is good or bad for the people in the long
run. He/she approaches a problem in a holistic manner and never believes
himself/herself different from his people and subject.
4. A leader has excellent logical and analytical skills. He/she looks each and
every aspects of the situation before arriving to any decision and never loses
his/her temper in difficult situations. He/she should think positively in each and
every situation.
5. A leader should always focus towards his goals, what he/she has envisioned
for and promised to his people. He/she should take each and every decision
keeping in mind the people and his subject.
7. A leader inspires his team to achieve target and lead them to success. He/she
brings best out of them in the time of crisis also.
8. A good leader is the one who can give people voice and direction.
10. A good leader always keeps a cool head in times of crises and finds solutions
to get everybody out of any difficult situation.