I’m a proponent of leadership over management as the primary course of study to improve one’s ability to influence people. Management, however, seems to have reigned as a subject in books since the 1800s. The google Ngram below charts the usage of the keywords “manager,” “leader,” “management”, and “leadership” in books since 1800. I...
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow. – Melody Beattie
Real life isn’t always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgment of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties – Sarah Ban Breathnach
The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all unpleasant things as interruptions of ones “own” or “real” life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life – the life God is sending one day by day. – C.S. Lewis
My philosophy of leadership is that four or five of us can come up with a much better decision than just I can alone. And if you follow that philosophy, you’ll probably have a very good, talented management group around you. People can always perform a whole lot better than how you think they’re going to perform. You need to really give them the opportunity to do that. Shivan S...
Benedict believed the basic leadership virtue was humility. Leaders had to demonstrate competence and ambition, but their passion was to derive from a desire to improve and contribute to the health of the organization, not from individual ego. He believed that true humility was a skill one had to learn and practice. John Mount, in a Forbes.com review of the book The Benedictine Rule of...
“Leadership guru Warren Bennis spent years researching leaders. He wrote in Why Leaders Can’t Lead: ‘Leaders do the right thing; managers do things right. Both roles are crucial, but differ profoundly. I often observe people in top positions doing the wrong thing well.'” Harvey Mackey, “Uncommon Leadership: It Has Common Traits,”Leadership...
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 great leader is seen as the servant first. – Robert K. Greenleaf
Great leaders tell stories that create pictures in our minds and have emotional impact. Martin Luther King Jr., had a dream, not a strategy or a goal, and he showed us his dream, his picture of the future. People change when they see something visual (the vision) that touches their feelings, challenges their thinking, and incites actions. People may realize the need for change, but not do...