Frances Hesselbein Quotes
The leader for today and the future will be focused on how to be - how to develop quality, character, mind-set, values, principles, and courage.
Organizations exist to make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. And this is the work of effective leaders.
It's not hard work that wears you out, but the repression of your true personality, and I've found a way of working that does not demand that.
The leader builds dispersed and diverse leadership - distributing leadership to the outermost edges of the circle to unleash the power of shared responsibility.
When you see a roadblock or challenge as an opportunity, it is amazing how you are already halfway there.
Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers cannot compete in a highly competitive world.
No matter what business you're in, everyone in the organisation needs to know why
The best part of the character and quality of the leader is expressing who you are in the work you do and how you do it.
Few leaders are born. We learn to be leaders. We learn by working with other people and working through our philosophy.
It is the quality and the character of the leader that determines the results and performance.
If we are to remain mission focused, as we must be if we are to be relevant in an uncertain age, the abandoning those things that do not further the mission is a leadership imperative.
People know that pursuing a mission without achieving results is dispiriting; achieving results without a mission is meaningless.
Key to the societal significance of tomorrow's leaders is the way they embrace the totality of leadership, not just including 'my organization' but reaching beyond the walls as well.
