Another great example of the power of vulnerability — this time in a corporation — is the leadership approach taken by Lululemon’s CEO, Christine Day. In a video interview with CNN Money, Day explained that...

It is no longer just engineers who dominate our technology leadership, because it is no longer the case that computers are so mysterious that only engineers can understand what they are capable of. There is...

I’d always follow Nixon’s orders, but you can’t order somebody to be happy.

[Ella Baker]’s second defining characteristic was her dislike of top-down leadership… ‘She felt leaders were not appointed but the rose up. Someone will rise. Someone will emerge’. It was an attitude Baker shared with some...

If you can give the wisdom of life to a child; teach to love all regardless of what they believe in, that life is a precious gift to all, judgments of hell and heaven are...

If life is music, I sometimes feel as though I was born on the off-beat of the song, and I love it. As Christian numbers reportedly decrease in America, my love for Christ feels as...

Leaders think it’s possible. They inspire followers to believe in the same good news and it becomes a blessing to them. Leadership is all about inspiring people to believe in what becomes profitable to them!

Our relations seemed poor to me, and I wasn’t surprised that the US intelligence picture in the Horn of Africa was weak. Much of what I read consisted of recycled news headlines repackaged as intelligence....

Don’t take purposeless people as your leaders. Their life is like an empty book with a nice cover paper and you have attempted to buy it. Of which use will it be to you for...

A bold attitude is what true leaders use to crash down failure before they venture with their visions!

This is what you can do to be called a true leader; know the truth, love the truth, speak the truth and repeat the cycle over and over again and again! Let the truth reign!

Men love women who are courageous for it means they can go all the way with him in his pursuit of his good dreams and intentions.

God rewards every act of obedience to His Will.

Your crown is in the place that has the least crowd

Courage is vehemently contagious, but it must be started by someone who brought it with him.

What makes a good leader? I ask myself this every day, and then as I begin to list off characteristics I realize I’m describing myself. Am I the ideal leader? Let’s just say that if...

By connecting and being part of a community with a shared vision and goals, we can create great things.

Never embarrass a student in front of others. Embarrass yourself often to relieve the tension, but do not paint them into a corner.

You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.

Leadership is leading the way, guiding the way, living the way…

People want guidance, not rhetoric. They need to know what the plan of action is, and how it will be implemented. They want to be given responsibility to help solve the problem and authority to...

It’s not just picking the right friends. It is being the right friend.

Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others.

A leader is heard, a great leader is listened too.

Leadership meant knowing how to distill complexity into a comprehensible message to reach the hearts as well as the minds of the larger world.

If you want to do a few small things right, do them yourself. If you want to do great things and make a big impact, learn to delegate.

May we graciously accept our responsibility.

All his life, he had found his way out of difficult situations by determining what people wanted and then convincing them that he was the best one to provide it. Then he’d go ahead and...

He was not ill-fitted to be the head and representative of a community which owed its origin and progress, and its present state of development, not to the impulses of youth, but to the stern...

How are things with you, sir?””Fine.” He says it flat.”Coffee black. BLT.”Now my heart tells me this guy needs more in life, so I take a short. “You ever had a cheese burger with grilled...

You Either Trust Someone or You Don’t

Some are born leaders, some achieve leadership, and some have leadership thrust upon them. Which of these are you, or would you rather not bother?

The real heart of strategy is the strategist.

No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don’t have.

Your comfort zone is not that comfortable.

Added pressure and responsibility should not change one’s leadership style, it should merely expose that which already exists.

But a society in which pluralism is not undergirded by some shared values and held together by some measure of mutual trust simply cannot survive. Pluralism that reflects no commitments whatever to the common good...

To lead from the front you must get off your behind.

How ought we to love God, Father?” he asked in a whisper.”By loving men, my son””And how ought we to love men?” “By trying to guide them along the right path””And what is the right...

Because discipline is misunderstood or not as valued as it has been, the United States—and some might argue the world—is experiencing a cultural leadership crisis.

Leadership is applicable to all facets of life: a competency that you can learn to expand your perspective, set the context of a goal, understand the dynamics of human behavior and take the initiative to...

Virtue should always be colmingled with humor.

Today my goal is to be more productive than I was yesterday, and tomorrow more productive than today.

Malicious or not, strong leaders always attract others.

It’s not that I had more important things to do or that I didn’t want to help with whatever problems were interfering with her students being successful—rather, it’s this horrible truth that life has taught...

Freedom is not doing what we want, but what we should.

Self leadership requires us to lead and motivate ourselves. But it looks a heck of a lot like schizophrenia during a ropes course.

Great Leadership sometimes requires taking a step backward in order to take a leap forward.

Stamp your performance with excellence.

The point of criticism is to build you as a leader and a dimension to reflect.