Full-Time

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber. - Sir Winston Churchill


Leadership is not a part-time job.

Ho Hum

When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally. - Lao Tzu


Sometimes no applause is a good thing.

Tyrants

... the tyrant also has those who associate with him in a humble spirit, which is a work of flattery. Hence tyrants are always fond of bad men, because they love to be flattered, but no man who has the spirit of a freeman in him will lower himself by flattery; good men love others, or at any rate do not flatter them. Moreover, the bad are useful for bad purposes; 'nail knocks out nail,' as the proverb says. It is characteristic of a tyrant to dislike every one who has dignity or independence; he wants to be alone in his glory, but any one who claims a like dignity or asserts his independence encroaches upon his prerogative, and is hated by him as an enemy to his power. Another mark of a tyrant is that he likes foreigners better than citizens, and lives with them and invites them to his table; for the one are enemies, but the others enter into no rivalry with him.  - Aristotle


Use this to size up your country's leaders.

Go Team Go!

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team. - Lee Iacocca

  Take a walk with a prospective team leader before you hire them for the job.

Director

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. - Max Lucado 

You've got to know where you're going in order to lead.

Rank

Managers want authority. Leaders take responsibility. - Seth Godin


The difference between a Drill Sargent and a General.

Good Posture

Help others get ahead. You will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders. - Bob Moawad


It's hard to slouch with someone standing on your shoulders.

Leadership

Leadership is action, not position. - Donald H. McGannon


Put your money were your mouth is. The founders of our country did.

Following the Leader

One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you. - Dennis A. Peer


Any crackpot can raise a following of a bunch of crackpots.

Discipline Must Come Through Liberty

Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined. - Maria Montessori


Though she was thinking about the education of children, I think that the same is worth considering about employees.


(Other posts on Management)

Keep Your Head Up

It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground. - James H. Boren


....and not possible to see your vision of the future from there either.


(Other posts on Leadership)

Forest or Trees

Some folks can't see the forest for the trees. Other folks can't see the trees for the forest. - Lyle


They that can see the big picture as well as examine the minutia deserve to be the boss.


(Other posts on Management)

Needed or Cherished?

Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished. - John Gray 

Think of this when dealing with personal relationships but also in business relationships.

(Other posts on Work) 

Narrative is Linear

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid. - Thomas Carlyle 

You are always more believable if you put your money where your mouth is.

(Other posts on Persuasion) 

Build Your Dream

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery 

Given the opportunity, people will build their dream.

(Other posts on Motivation) 

Beginning Attitude

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. - William James 


If it is a team effort be sure everybody has a positive attitude before starting - this may be the most difficult part of the task.


(Other posts on Achievement)  

Leadership, Day to Day

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. - Thomas J. Watson 


Use this to find new leaders in your crew.


(Other posts on Leadership) 

Lead by Being Average?

We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen. - Barack Obama 


What a novel way lower immigration rates! Make our country just as crappy as all the others.


(Other posts on Leadership) 

Coping

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. - George Santayana 


So when trying to convince someone prepare them to be able to cope with your idea.


(Other posts on Persuasion) 

The Successful Boss

He isn't a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities. - William Feather 


Bosses are not totally successful until they have nothing to do but put their feet up and think.


(Other post on Leadership)