leadership-characteristics

Profitability. Growth. Quality. Exceeding customer expectations. These are not examples of values. These are examples of corporate strategies being sold to you as values.

Most managers have plenty of emotional commitment to give to their jobs. If they can be convinced it__ safe and sensible to give it.

One cannot lead well until one learns to follow well.

Instead of waiting for a leader you can believe in, try this: Become a leader you can believe in.

Try not to take this the wrong way, but your brain is smarter than you are.

This is your one and only precious life. Somebody__ going to decide how it__ going to be lived and that person had better be you.

Having margins in your life strips away external voices and allows that person to remember and honor the true self within.

When you don__ have time to do your job, that__ a good indication you__e playing the wrong game.

Your company really has to work for you before you__l really work for your company.

There will be plenty of other problems in the future. This is as good a time as any to get ahead of them.

Effective leaders are good spotters. They are on the lookout forpotential leaders. They have the ability to look beyond other__ deficiencies tosee their possibilities.

The economy is in ruins! Bottom line? Good management will defeat a bad economy.

True leadership is not defined by notoriety, power, prestige, status, or job title...

The purpose of leadership is to change the world around you in the name of your values, so you can live those values more fully.

In the future, we should anticipate seeing more hybrid wars where conventional warfare, irregular warfare, asymmetric warfare, and information warfare all blend together, creating a very complex and challenging situation to the combatants; therefore it will require military forces to posses hybrid capabilities, which might help deal with hybrid threats.

Authentic leadership is leading adaptively from your core, choosing who you__e most inspired to be to serve the greatest good in this moment.

Authentic leadership is about leading from the core of who we are to inspire each of us to our best contribution toward a shared mission.

The answer from yesterday is not as critical as the questions about the future.