Leading By Example

Leadership is an action, not a position. - Donald McGannon

What Washington needs is adult supervision. - Barack Obama

Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse. - Elizabeth Kenny

The art of communication is the language of leadership. - James Humes

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. - John F Kennedy

You can't create greater followers under poor leadership. - Unknown

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better. - Bill Bradley

Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it. - Henry Mintzberg

Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership. - James Humes

Reality: The leading cause of stress among those in touch with it. - Lily Tomlin

Leaders inspire. They aren't assigned leadership. They command it. - Dr. Phil McGraw

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. - Peter F Drucker

The most powerful leadership tool you have is your own personal example. - John Wooden

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work. - Seth Godin

Skateboarding is training, but I don't think of it as training. It's fun. - Shaun White

Leadership is at its best making promises to the people... and then keeping them. - Unknown

Leadership is all about influence - the first person you need to influence is you. - John C Maxwell

You can only go as high on the leadership ladder as your character will allow you. - John C Maxwell

Positive leadership uplifts everyone. All it takes is you: the best version of you. - Unknown

Leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people. - Mahatma Gandhi

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. - Peter F Drucker

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people. - John Rockefeller

The heart of good leadership is sacrifice. If you want to grow an organization - grow leaders. - John C Maxwell

Leadership is the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done. - Vance Packard

Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another. - John C Maxwell

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. - Arnold H. Glasow

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't. - Peter F Drucker

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. - Stephen Covey

Basketball develops individuality, initiative, and leadership. Now get out there and do exactly what I tell you to. - Dick Vitale

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked. Leadership is defined by results, not attributes. - Peter F Drucker

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. - John Buchan

Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence. - Unknown

Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight. - Faye Wattleton

Cut out the free feed for the boss hogs at the public trough and the spill-over they've been leaving us. We'll manage. - Paul Harvey

The workers' and peasants' government proposes to all warring peoples... negotiations leading to a just, democratic peace. - Lenin

A doable goal for me is to finish a marathon under four hours. I'm doing all the training, but the hardest part is eating right. - Sean Astin

The talk you hear about adapting to change is not only stupid, it's dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it. - Peter F Drucker

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy. - Barack Obama

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control. - Tom Landry

One of the most important leadership lessons is realizing you're not the most important or the most intelligent person in the room at all times. - Mario Batall