Organisations often appoint leaders for their IQ. Then, years later, sack them for their lack of EQ (Emotional Intelligence). Common Purpose argues that in the future they will promote for CQ – Cultural Intelligence.

When a leader buys his own excuses, he also, unfortunately, sells them to his team.

Helping those less fortunate than us is a blessed opportunity to show thanks for the gifts of life that we ourselves enjoy.

Great is a great one whose great ones are great

Why did Africa let Europe cart away millions of Africa’s souls from the continent to the four corners of the wind? How could Europe lord it over a continent ten times its size? Why does...

Success cannot resist the temptation of consistency and persistence.

The mind is a storehouse with great capacity, but is often filled with dubious knowledge and meaningless trivialities. In truth, much of this – though at times interesting and entertaining – is of insignificant value.

Like creating a masterpiece, quitting is an art: you have to decide what to keep within the frame and what to keep out.

In every age there comes a time when a leader must come forward to meet the needs of the hour. Therefore, there is no potential leader who does not have the opportunity to make a...

He (LBJ) played on their fears as he played on their hopes.

When you practice leadership,The evidence of quality of your leadership, Is known from the type of leaders that emerge out of your leadership

If you’re a boss, and not a leader, your time is limited.

Qualifications or not without gratitude you not qualified enough to be a leader.

Pop leadership abuts pop psychology, and is very destructive. In no other serious domain of human endeavor (surgery, playing the violin) is the subject distilled down to nice-sounding aphorisms that mean nothing.

Your Results will only change when you change your mindset, thinking and actions.

For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45).

For him (JFK) as he imagined of the British aristocracy, policies were less important than character traits such as dignity, courage, and honor. They did not pose as angry young men, but brought an almost...

Decisions of character come from understanding that they are accountable to God only, not to family, spouses, religious leaders, corporations, public opinion or your own ego.

When you see someone do what no one else is doing take notice. Something truly special is about to happen. Not only will they be lifted up, they will lift up those around them as...

IDEALISM is not passé..It can cause the unprecedented…We need more IDEALISTS, more DREAMERS, more DOERSOne person to ‘walk the other way’ is enough to cause a storm

It works…conditioning your mind to see something positive in anything! Anything that happens to you, anything said to you, anything said about you.I have the choice to INTERPRET it in a way that is positive.Surefire...

Do not try to lead men who are unwilling to follow you; if their heart is not in it, you will never find the old spirit or the old courage.

Intellectuals are rarely successful as leaders. They are so trapped in their ideals that they cannot venture out in the real world to win and lead.

if you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the 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

A leader is a planter—a planter of ideas, seeds of change, and a vision for justice

Emperors are not made from cowards; they are made from those who take great risk where there stands to be even greater gain.

ABC of a wonderful life: A man of the right ATTITUDE is GOOD; A man of the right ATTITUDE+the correct BEHAVIOR is BETTER; But, a man of the right ATTITUDE+the correct BEHAVIOR +an upright CHARACTER...

Never stop asking questions. Always take time to reflect and find answers. Stop, Think and Use Your Brain!

Attitude is the mind-set, the kind of thoughts you process and meditate on, to generate the kind of feelings you have towards life, people and issues. This is what makes you do what you do...

Reprogram your life and mind-set by replacing the bad with the positive, the weakness with the strength.

Do not seek success just for the sake of succeeding or for self-gratification. Seek a life of impact and significance.

Cease from envy, prejudice and unhealthy competitiveness. Never abandon your own mission and brand to pursue the seemingly exciting mission or vision of another.

Most characteristics associated with leaders are masculine: dominance, authority, assertiveness, and so forth.

Might without right makes blight

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...

A good leader is one who reveals to you your own potential and then inspires and shows you how to reach your potential.

The more positive you are the more people want to be around you and the less positive you are…well, just reverse it!

I believe it is the duty of each of us to act as if the fate of the world depended on him. Admittedly, one man by himself cannot do the job. However, one man can...

To foster a solution mindset, tell employees that you are not interested in who or what caused the problem. You are only interested in hearing how we plan to go beyond the problem.

Don’t be a pleaser of people just because of the fear of the losing your position. You cease to be a true leader when you do so!

Leadership is not a raw gift given to a group of people. It is the product of any type of gift everyone one has. It therefore means, any kind of gift is a leadership gift!

If the cost of naming the enemy is diplomatically or politically unacceptable, then the war is not likely to go well.

The leader’s job is to show the way. The bottom line is that you can’t tell anything about the condition of the way if you’ve not traveled on it yourself!

Two main definitions of a true leader; His presence is noticed and his absence is felt…!

Your words are powerful so what you say goes a long way to either establish or destroy you; this is why you should say things that God has said concerning you, not things that situations...

You don’t need to go running from pillar to post looking for what God looks like.

The difficulty was not that of following a moral principle at personal cost; the difficulty was that of knowing what to do when there is more than one principal, and when the principles clash.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on.” Walter Lippmann.

Rest and comfort are two different things. Rest is a planned temporary time to refresh and refocus the leader. Comfort is when you settle into unproductive routines and accept satisfactory or unsatisfactory results.

When man is finally able to see himself and the world around him with clear cognition, he finds a picture far more pleasant. Visible in unmistakable clarity and devastating detail is man’s failure to be...