Leading By Example

Example is leadership. - Albert Schweitzer

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

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

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown. - Charles de Gaulle

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training. - Robert Baden-Powell

The only way I can get a leading-man role is if I write it. - John Cleese

Management is a practice where art, science, and craft meet. - Henry Mintzberg

Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer. - Leo Rosten

The true test of leadership is how well you function in a crisis. - Brian Tracy

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

Creative minds have been known to survive any sort of bad training. - Anna Freud

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

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. - Tony Blair

The best time management strategy: don't find the time, find the why. - Chris Guillebeau

Being positive in a negative situation is not naive, it's leadership. - Ralph Marston

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. - Ralph Nader

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. - Harold S Geneen

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

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

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

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed. - A.J. Liebling

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

Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself. It's about advancing your team. - John C Maxwell

Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win. - Tom Fleming

Leadership is all about influence and everything rises and falls on leadership... everything. - John C Maxwell

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

Diabetes is a great example whereby, giving the patient the tools, you can manage yourself very well. - Clayton Christensen

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

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve. - Tom Landry

It's because you're scared that there's danger.
But could she manage not to be scared anymore? - Johanna Verweerd

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

Many training programs and often schools focus on just a skill or a kind of work competency. That's only half the equation. - Gerald Chertavian

I hated every minute of training, but I said, "Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion." - Muhammad Ali

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work. - Agha Hasan Abedi

Finance functions lose the potential to steer their organizations to success when they defer performance management to other functions. - Jack Alexander

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. - Stephen Covey