Leadership A to Z

"Leadership is always a social, or group, activity that involves getting other people to do the right things."

"True leadership has two primary, and equally important, dimensions: Alignment and Adaptability."

"The task of a leader is to communicate clearly and repeatedly the organization's vision, strategy, goals, and objectives, and to communicate its values, mission, purpose, and principles."

"By focusing on the big picture, leaders know what the details should look like when they see them."

"Effective leaders understand that there are some things that every leader must do in order to create followers and to create aligned and adaptive organizations."

"Although every effective leader is sensitive to the importance of early wins, the great ones don't immediately realize their agendas."

"A useful rule of thumb in all leadership situations is to underpromise and overdeliver."

"Leaders must both appreciate that followers have legitimate differences and, at the same time, transcend those differences by identifying a common end that all parties will view as desirable."

"To be effective, today's leaders must forgo the self-satisfaction that comes from playing Captain Bligh and learn the art of team leadership."

"Leaders understand that if you respect followers, they will respect you."

"The two basic, and opposing, approaches to change?change management and strategic leadership?start from different premises. "

"Because measures of this year's profits don't reveal much about such important long-term considerations, sophisticated corporations also attempt to measure the quality of leadership."

"Leadership begins with listening and ends with creating the conditions under which followers can realize their true needs and highest aspirations."

"A leader can care about _both_ people and profits."

"Leaders understand that their role is to achieve a goal through the efforts of other people."

"Leaders have three basic challenges."

"Great teachers prepare the next generation to assume the responsibilities of leadership."

"Trust is an outcome of leadership actions and behavior: Hence, leaders can't _do_ trust."