A hunt leader could not show fear, or let it linger in his stomach, for others would sense it soon enough, taste that fear and become possessed by it. They would hesitate when an order was given, and...
A lord who does not distribute wealth is a lord who will lose the allegiance of his men,
(n.) The office of a leader.
A newcomer could ascertain the identity of a town's true leaders – which storekeeper was respected, which farmer was listened to other farmers – only through endless hours of subtle probing of reticen...
A prophet is not someone who first had an idea. He is the one to first believe in it and take it to its conclusion.
A visitor asked Lincoln what good news he could take home from an audience with the august executive. The president spun a story about a machine that baffled a chess champion by beating him thrice. Th...
Address the solvable first, instructs the father by way of teaching his son crisis management. That way, he counsels, there is less distraction to tackle more daunting issues.
Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?
Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.
Another great example of the power of vulnerability -- this time in a corporation -- is the leadership approach taken by Lululemon's CEO, Christine Day. In a video interview with CNN Money, Day explai...
Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.
As you start your day, are you wondering what you will reap, or are you wondering what you will sow?
At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he was really the leader of vision and genius which he believed himself to be, o...
Avner had lived too long and become too canny to claim the crown of Israel for himself.
Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors.
But oh, the perils of leadership in a species so anxious to be told what to do. How little they knew of what they created by their demands. Leaders made mistakes. And those mistakes, amplified by the...
Caesar broke the law when he crossed the Rubicon, Frank said. Great leaders have to think out side the box sometimes.
Character in leadership comes down to two questions: Would you trade places with anyone under your command? Do you hold yourself to the same level of accountability as those for whom you bear responsi...
David ran through concrete advantages. And then set aside the practical. The pragmatist was gone, replaced by the poet and mystic.
David was at his best in group settings, soldier enough to join in the raucous jests, king enough to make it matter that he remembered some moments of bravery or sacrifice, and praised each man accord...
Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer.
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