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There are no office hours for leaders.
Sep 10, 2025
Leaders grow; they are not made.
Any great and inspiring leader or organization that ever existed set out to do something completely unrealistic.
Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.
The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.
People imitate their leader. Lead by example.
Leadership is not a license to do less. Leadership is a responsibility to do more
Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.
A poor leader will tell you how many people work for them. A great leader will tell you how many people they work for.
At the heart of great leadership is a curious mind, heart, and spirit.
Great leadership is not attained by pursuing greatness but by persevering through great tests.
Great leaders make people feel important.
Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won't make a company successful.
Spotting talent is one of the essential elements of great leadership.
Great leadership usually starts with a willing heart, a positive attitude, and a desire to make a difference.
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.
Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.
Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes.
Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.
A leader should not take credit when things go right if they are not willing to accept responsibility when things go wrong.
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader.
Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.
He's very competitive and knows what he wants. He has developed toughness in character and that is what is needed for Indian cricket. Ganguly has proved to be one of the best captains. He has now acquired great leadership qualities.
Good leaders don't tell people what to do, they give teams capability and inspiration.
The important word there is inspire. The key difference between managers and leaders is that managers tell people what to do, while leaders inspire them to do it. Inspiration comes from three things: clarity of one's vision, courage of their conviction and the ability to effectively communicate both of those things.
How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a group.
Real leaders like Lee Iacocca see vast possibilities and sell their dreams to their companies, their employees, their funding sources, their government and their buying public.
Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate but rather a flame which is kept burning in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says Lets GO!
People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.
To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!
Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.
The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.
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.
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
The boss depends on authority; the leader on goodwill.
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
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.
Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant.
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
As Ive progressed in my career, Ive come to appreciate -- and really value -- the other attributes that define a companys success beyond the P&L: great leadership, long-term financial strength, ethical business practices, evolving business strategies, sound governance, powerful brands, values-based decision-making.
Leaders don’t complain about what’s not working. Leaders celebrate what is working and work to amplify it.
Leaders aren't born they are made.
Leaders are not born, they're made.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
Leaders don't look for recognition from others, leaders look for others to recognize.
It is clear that through the partnerships between Global Cool and the International Indian Film Academy, Indian cinema has the potential to provide great leadership by exciting its enormous and enthusiastic audience to do their bit to save the planet
Great leadership isn’t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they galvanize the wills of the willing; they draw clarity from the spigot of chaos.