“Leading Lights” is published in the
Empower session of The Hindu on Wednesday’s. I am attempting to repost the
quotes for ready reference.
Mastery in work and in life is about committing
yourself to being excellent in everything you do, no matter how small and no
matter if no one is watching. Do you practice excellence in your most private
moments?.......... Robin Sharma
The deeper your relationship with others, the more
effective will be your leadership. People will not follow you if they do not
trust you, and before someone will lend you a hand, you must first touch their
heart……Robin Sharma
To help others develop,
start with yourself. …………Marshall Goldsmith
Character creates
consistency, and if your people know what they can expect from you, they will
continue to look to you for leadership……John Maxwell
Take the emotional temperature of those listening
to you. Facial expressions, voice inflection and posture give clues to a
person’s mood and attitude…..JohnMaxwell
A leader is one who knows
the way, goes the way, and shows the way………John Maxwell
A great leader’s courage
to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position…..John Maxwell
Earn the right to be
heard by listening to others. Seek to understand a situation before making
judgments about it………… John Maxwell
Effective leadership is
not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not
attributes………..Peter Drucker
No institution can
possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be
organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed
of average human beings…….Peter Drucker
Management by objectives works if you first think
through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't…….. Peter Drucker
I suppose leadership at
one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people…..MohandasGandhi
Leadership is getting
someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve………TomLandry
Power consists in one’s
capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, leading by reason and a
gift of cooperation……..Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Effective leadership is
putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out……….StephenCovey
In the last analysis,
what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do………StephenCovey
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success;
leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall…………..Stephen R. Covey
Excellence is a better
teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound
and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary……….WarrenG. Bennis
Power flows to the man who knows how.
Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them…………Elbert Hubbard
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
I’ve never found an
important decision made by a great organization that was made at a point of
unanimity. Significant decisions carry risks and inevitably some will oppose
it. In these settings, the great legislative leader must be artful in handling
uncomfortable decisions, and this requires rigor……..Jim Collins
Your success in life
isn’t based on your ability to simply change. It is based on your ability to
change faster than your competition, customers and business…………Mark Sanborn
Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost
the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s
amazing what they can accomplish…………SamWalton
You do not lead by
hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership……… DwightD. Eisenhower
The ear of the leader
must ring with the voices of the people……….Woodrow Wilson
Power consists in one’s capacity to link his
will with the purpose of others, leading by reason and a gift of cooperation…….ThomasWoodrow Wilson.
A real leader has the ability to motivate others to their highest level of achievement; then gives them the opportunity and the freedom to grow…….Buck Rodgers
Feedback is the breakfast
of champions……….Ken Blanchard
There’s something unique
and different that makes a leader, and it’s not about creativity or courage or
integrity…. A leader’s job is to rally people toward a better future………….MarcusBuckingham
The only real training
for leadership is leadership…………..Anthony Jay
Leadership and learning
are indispensable to each other……. John F. Kennedy
The very essence of
leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet……….TheodoreM. Hesburgh
Good leaders make people
feel that they’re at the very heart of things, not at the periphery………Warren G.Bennis
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them
greatly and they will show themselves great………Ralph Waldo Emerson
You don’t have to hold a
position in order to be a leader…….Anthony D’Angelo
One of the greatest
talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others………..Frank
Tyger
If you wish others to
believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them………Harvey
Mackay
No man will make a great
leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it……….AndrewCarnegie
A good objective of
leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those
who are doing well to do even better…….Jim Rohn
Vision comes alive when
everyone sees where his or her contribution makes a difference…….Ken Blanchard
Giving people
self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then
they will act……..Jack Welch
It is hard to look up to
a leader who keeps his ear to the ground……James Boren
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and
under-led…..Warren G. Bennis
Excellence is a better
teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly
profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary. ………WarrenG. Bennis
Leadership is unlocking
people’s potential to become better…….Bill Bradley
A leader certainly needs
a clear vision of the organisation and where it is going, but a vision is of
little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and
commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable…..Claude Taylor
A good leader takes a
little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the
credit……Arnold Glasgow
The price of greatness is
responsibility……..Winston Churchill
The day soldiers stop
bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them………GeneralColin Powell
A dream is just a dream.
A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline….Harvey Mackay
Treat a man as he is and
he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become
as he can and should be……..Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Leaders don’t create followers;
they create more leaders……Tom Peters
The simple act of paying
positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity………TomPeters
Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the
great…….John D. Rockefeller
If someone listens, or
stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, extraordinary
things begin to happen…….Loretta Girzartis
Ask your team, they know
the answer…..Chuck Carlson
There are some people
that live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there
are those who have a plan to make one into the other. ………Douglas
Everett
A man who wants to lead
the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd…………… Max Lucado
If your actions inspire
others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader………..John
Quincy Adams
Lead and inspire people.
Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but
people must be led………. Ross Perot
Become the kind of leader
that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position………..Brian
Tracy
A leader is best when people barely know he exists,
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say we did it ourselves………..
Lao Tzu
Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but
with effort. Full effort is full victory……….. Mahatma Gandhi
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a
follower……… Steve Jobs
The very essence of leadership is that you have to
have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet………Theodore M. Hesburgh
Leadership and learning
are indispensable to each other…… John F. Kennedy
When the creative impulse sweeps over you grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it , because momentum is a rare gift.....Justina Chen
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just......Abraham Lincoln
Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future, challenge the improbable and attain the impossible......William Arthur Ward
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but its own talents .........Eric Hoffer
It is (often) the quiet gesture which carries themost significance ---- the one which suddenly directs the symphony........Mary Anne Radmacher
When you give appreciation in order to get something -- its manipultion and perole sense it. Appreciate genuinely ......Marilyn Suttle
You say I started out with practically nothing, but it isn't correct. We all start with all there is , it's how we use it that makes things possible......Henry Ford.
Every day is a journey filled with twists and turns. Every day, if you smile, you will feel alive. my son......Santosh Kalwar
Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy....General H Norman Schwarzkopf
The best executive is 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
Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.......Immanuel Kant
Because a thing seems difficult for you , do not think it is impossible for anyone to accomplish.......Marcus Aurelius
It is never too late to be who you might have been........George Eliot
If you ar the master, be sometimes blind; if you are the servant, be sometimes deaf.....R Buckminster Fuller
The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work....Agha hasan Abedi
Good Management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.....John Fockefeller
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.....Jane Fonda
If you don't wake up in the morning excited to pick up where you left your work yesterday ,you have not found your calling yet.....Mike Wallace
Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it cant be done...Life is too short to think small.....Tim Ferriss
Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.......Confucious
A good manager is a man who is not worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him...H S M Burns
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke her resents.....Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it: the tree is the real thing......Abraham Lincoln
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make not decision and escape all responsibility....... Brooks Atkinson
Designing your product for monetisation first and people second will probably leave you with neither........Tara Hunt
Good design can't fix broken business models........Jeffrey Veen
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Lets love turbulence and use it for change....Ramsay Clark
In the field of observation chance favors only the prepared mind....Louis Pasteur.
