The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My feeling is if you're going to be a leader, you have to carefully assess where people are and where people want to go.
There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.
Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been.
A leader's job is not to do the work for others, it's to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done, and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.
Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.
To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.
The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.
A leader in any place must ask himself who he identifies with, with which values, and towards what goals.