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Issue 2009-02 - Great Quotes On Leadership

One of my favorite magazines is Readers Digest.  There are a wide variety of short stories and interesting snippets.  Despite the huge number of ads in each issue, I look forward to getting my monthly issue and keeping it in the smallest room of the house <g>. 

In the latest issue I found some pretty profound nuggets on leadership as quoted by some of the greatest leaders in both the public and private sectors.  A few of them were profound enough that I thought I would send them out to you (with proper attribution, of course) so you might be able to get just one nugget to help you be a better leader.   

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers. - General Colin Powell

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse. - Adlai Stevenson

The person who knows "how" will always have a job.  The person who knows "why" will always be his boss. - Diane Ravitch

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people.  There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership. - John Updike

Inventories can be managed, but people must be led. - H. Ross Perot

Being powerful is like being a lady.  If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. - Margaret Thatcher

Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation. - Doris Kearns Goodwin

You have to have a vision.  It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully.  You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. - Rev. Theodore Hesburgh

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. - Governor Jennifer M. Granholm of Michigan

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.  If you think about that, you'll do things differently. - Warren Buffet

Let us realize that engagement and detachment aren't opposite - the more engaged we become, the more detached we will have to be. - Deepak Chopra

When things go wrong in your command, start searching for the reason in increasingly large circles around your own two feet. - General Bruce Clarke

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