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Friday, August 08, 2003

 

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Peter F. Drucker

Thursday, August 07, 2003

 

We must see power - and leadership - as not things but as relationships. We must analyze power in a context of human motives and physical constraints. If we can come to grips these aspects of power, we can hope to comprehend the true nature of leadership - a venture far more intellectually daunting than the study of naked power.

James MacGregor Burns
Leadership

Wednesday, August 06, 2003

 

As there is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust, so there are other qualities in human nature, which justify a certain portion of esteem and confidence. Republican government presupposes the existence of these qualities in a higher degree than any other form.

James Madison
Federalist, No. 55

Tuesday, August 05, 2003

 

As the postindustrial paradigm becomes more and more accepted in mainstream thought and practice, leadership will lose its Lone Ranger or Pied Piper of Hamlin image--the idea that there is one person who is out in front taking charge, and everyone else is following, more or less blindly, toward leader-initiated goals. As the new school of leadership takes hold, we will be less willing to agree that Lee Iacocca single-handedly turned Chrysler around or that Peter Ueberroth single-handedly took charge of the summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles and made them the rousing success that they were. Such leadership relationships-those involving one leader and numerous followers--become less and less possible and more and more improbable as we move to a postindustrial era.

Joseph C. Rost
Leadership for the 21st Century

Monday, August 04, 2003

 

Some people waste too much time on a lot of unimportant things, don't you think?

Georgia O'Keefe