Thoughts on leadership

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Last Updated: Mar 30, 2022, 11:54 IST1 min
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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. —Jack WelchAmerican business executive

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? —Benjamin DisraeliBritish statesman

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A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a moulder of consensus. —Martin Luther King, JrAmerican activist

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. —Warren BennisAmerican scholar

Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the Earth, you are a great leader. —Indra NooyiIndian-American business executiveHe who has never learnt to obey cannot be a good commander. —AristotleGreek philosopher

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves. —Lao TzuChinese philosopher

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat. —Jean-Paul SartreFrench novelist

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. —John UpdikeAmerican novelist

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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people. —Mahatma GandhiFreedom fighter

Some people feel, you make your case, if they listen to you, fine, if they don’t, that’s it. That’s not what leadership is. Leadership is trying to continue to make a case. —Anthony FauciAmerican immunologist

First Published: Mar 30, 2022, 11:54

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