To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.
You don't lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.
I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.
The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.
The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
Force always attracts men of low morality.
Longer Version:
An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels. For this reason I have always been passionately opposed to systems such as we see in Italy and Russia to-day.
I am not in favour of quotas. Just put the best person into the job. It is not about gender; it is about experience, leadership and vision.
