James M. Kouzes Quotes
The best way to lead people into the future is to connect with them deeply in the present.
If you think you're a leader and you turn around and no one is following you, then you're simply out for a walk.
It always takes a group of people working together with a common purpose in an atmosphere of trust and collaboration to get extraordinary things done.
Leadership is a relationship between those who aspire to lead and those who choose to follow.
Leaders must know where they are going if they expect others to willingly join them on the journey.
A leader with integrity has one self, at home and at work, with family and with colleagues. He or she has a unifying set of values that guide choices of action regardless of the situation.
You must unite your constituents around a common cause and connect with them as human beings.
If we're going to be authentic in our leadership, we will have to be willing to serve, and we have to be willing to suffer.
You can't lead others to places you don't want to go yourself. If you don't feel a burning passion for something, how in the world can you inspire and encourage others to share it?
Only those leaders who act boldly in times of crisis and change are willingly followed.
The word "story" is short for the word "history." They both have the same root and fundamentally mean the same thing. A story is a narrative on an event or series of events, just like history.
