Leading By Example

Example is leadership. - Albert Schweitzer

Behind leadership there is always a person. - Unknown

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

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

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. - Fletcher Knebel

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

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

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

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

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. - Ambrose Bierce

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

To err is human. To blame it on somebody else shows management potential. - Unknown

Be stubbornly committed to your team, but flexible in your leadership style. - Jo Miller

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

You do not lead by hitting people over the head; that is assault, not leadership. - Dwight D Eisenhower

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

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

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

Supporting myself at an early age was the best training for life I could have possibly received. - Lea Thompson

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

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

It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive, but those who can best manage change. - Charles Darwin

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

I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line. - Elvis Presley

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

I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around. - James Beard

Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon. - James L Fisher

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

The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management. - Scott Adams

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

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

Leadership is all about caring, daring and sharing. Caring for people, Daring to Act fearlessly, and Sharing the success with all. - Sujit Lalwani

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

There's only one thing worse than training your staff and having them leave, and that's not training them and having them stay. - Zig Ziglar

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

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

I you can make any leading religion of the world look like complete nonsense, you can be sure of only one thing: you haven't understood it. - Wilfred Cantwell Smith

Regarded simply as a politician, and compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind. - Mahatma Gandhi