Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.
One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role - some people can do it, and some people can't.
Leadership is hard to train on.
Leadership is... to make sure you never limit the idea or opportunity.
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.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.
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