20 keys to being a great leader !

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2. The greatest leader is not
necessarily the one who
does the greatest things.
He is the one that
gets the people to
do the greatest
things.
Ronald Reagan

3. I’ve missed more than
9000 shots in my career.
I’ve lost almost 300
games. Twenty-six times
I’ve been trusted to take
the game winning shot
and missed. I’ve failed
over and over and
over again in my life.
And that is why I
succeed.
Michael Jordan

4. Power isn’t control at all -
power is strength, and
giving that strength to
others. A leader isn’t
someone who forces
others to make him
stronger; a leader is
someone willing to
give his strength to
others that they may
have the strength to
stand on their own.
Beth Revis

5. When I was 5 years old,
my mother always told
me that happiness was
the key to life. When I
went to school, they
asked me what I wanted
to be when I grew up.
I wrote down ‘happy’.
They told me I didn’t
understand the
assignment, and I told
them they didn’t
understand life.
John Lennon

6. To lead people, walk
beside them. As for the
best leaders, the people
do not notice their
existence… When the
best leader’s work is
done, the people say
‘We did it ourselves!’
Lao Tzu

7. To handle yourself, use
your head; to handle
others, use your
heart.
Eleanor Roosevelt

8. Leadership is not
magnetic personality, that
can just as well be a glib
tongue. It is not "making
friends and influencing
people,” that is flattery.
Leadership is lifting a
person’s vision to
higher sights, the
raising of a person’s
performance to a
higher standard, the
building of a
personality beyond
its normal
limitations.
Peter F. Drucker

9. It is better to lead from
behind and to put others
in front, especially when
you celebrate victory
when nice things occur.
You take the front
line when there is
danger. Then people
will appreciate your
leadership.
Nelson Mandela

10. My job is not to be easy
on people.
My job is to take these
great people we have
and to push them
and make them even
better.
Steve Jobs

11. 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

12. Leadership is solving
problems. The day the
soldiers stop bringing you
their problems is the day
you stopped leading
them.
They have either lost
confidence that you can
help them or concluded
that you do not care.
Either case is a failure of
leadership.
Colin Powell

13. Success at the highest
level comes down to one
question: 'Can you
make the choice that
your happiness can
come from someone
else’s success?’ No
one has qualities like
courage, vision, charisma,
adaptability, and
decisiveness in equal
measure.
But every great leader
does make the same
decision - and so can
you.
Jeff Haden

14. My own definition of
leadership is this:
The capacity and the will
to rally men and
women to a common
purpose and the
character which inspires
confidence.
General Montgomery

15. There is a difference
between being a leader
and being a boss.
Both are based on
authority.
A boss demands blind
obedience; a leader
earns his authority
through
understanding and
trust.
Klaus Balkenhol

16. The most dangerous
leadership myth is that
leaders are born - that
there is a genetic factor
to leadership. That’s
nonsense; in fact, the
opposite is true.
Leaders are made
rather than born.
Warren Bennis

17. A true leader has
the confidence to
stand alone, the
courage to make
tough decisions, and
the compassion to
listen to the needs
of others. He does not
set out to be a leader, but
becomes one by the
equality of his actions
and the integrity of his
intent.
Douglas MacArthur

18. The challenge of
leadership is to be
strong, but not rude; be
kind, but not weak; be
bold, but not bully; be
thoughtful, but not
lazy; be humble, but
not timid; be proud, but
not arrogant; have
humor, but without folly.
Jim Rohn

19. All of the great leaders
have had one
characteristic in
common: it was the
willingness to
confront
unequivocally the
major anxiety of
their people in their
time.
This, and not much else,
is the essence of
leadership.
John Kenneth Galbraith

20. 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

21. Control is not leadership;
management is not
leadership; leadership is
leadership.
Lead yourself, lead
your superiors, lead
your peers, and free
your people to do
the same.
Dee Hock

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