People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.
It takes a leader to know a leader, grow a leader, and show a leader.
All leaders are learners. The moment you stop learning, you stop leading. I learn as much as I can, from as many as I can, as often as I can.
Growing other leaders from the ranks isn't just the duty of the leader, it's an obligation.
The worst mistake a leader can make is to mentor no one, choose no successor and leave no legacy.
But the question is to find and rear leaders that are really one with the masses. This can only be accomplished by the masses, the political parties and the Trade Unions, by means of the most severe struggle, also inwardly.
In the army, we do two things every day. We train our soldiers, and then we grow them into leaders, because frankly, we don't hire out. We grow our own leaders.
One of the lessons of leadership worth emphasizing is that you want to get to know other great leaders and take their advice. At some point in your development, it's only people who've been in the seat of having to be leaders who can help you in a deep way.
To be the best next-generation leader you can be, you must enlist the help of others. Self-evaluation is helpful, but evaluation from someone else is essential. You need a leadership coach. Coaching enables a leader to go further faster.
If your a leader, do everything you can to grow yourself and create the right environment for others to grow.
Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.
I can grow as a leader only if I'm willing to accept feedback.
Leaders develop their styles as they interact with their constituencies. They move toward the style that seems most effective in dealing with the mixture of elements that make up their constituencies.
The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.
The greatest leader is not someone who is the only leader. The greatest leader is one who inspires others to be leaders.
Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future... I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches... facilitate learning.
If you really want to be a successful leader, you must develop other leaders around you. You must establish a team.
Perhaps the central task of the leader of leaders thus becomes the development of other leaders.
Leadership is not defined by the exercise of power but by the capacity to increase the sense of power among those led. The most essential work of the leader is to create more leaders.
My personal view is that organisations have a capacity to throw up extraordinary leaders to suit the occasion.
It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass.
The true mark of a Christian leader is trying to build up other people. Raise up other leaders!
A great advantage of a large corporation is supposed to be the large pool of talent in which its leaders can find and groom high achievers and successors.
You don't become an effective leader by default.
I spend a lot of my time trying to help leaders build cultures of productive givers.
