Quotes about Leadership

When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."

America is stronger because of President Obama's leadership, and I'm better because of his friendship.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

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.

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

The issue is never, "Are you qualified?" The issue is always, "Are you called?

You can't make a difference without making waves, and some people in the boat won't like it. So be it. Rock the boat anyway.

Going all in is following in the footsteps of Jesus wherever they may lead us

Don't just go out and do what Dick Eastman or your spiritual hero did. That's a spiritual cop-out. Copycat spirituality is short lived.

There is a theory in organizational development called appreciative inquiry that I subscribe to as a leader and a parent. Instead of exclusively focusing on what's wrong and trying to fix it, you identify what's right and try to replicate it. Appreciative inquiry is playing to people's strengths. It's catching people doing things right. It's celebrating what you want to see more of. And it's bragging about people behind their backs.

One of the mistakes we make as parents and as leaders is this: we do everything within our power to create emotional and relational and spiritual biospheres. We avoid conflict. We mitigate risk. We minimize discomfort. We sidestep sacrifice. Then we wonder why people grow to a certain stature and stop. We wonder why leaders fall.