Willingham: Leadership
It’s easier to whisper advice from cover, than to risk its merit at the point of attack
played by Peter O’Toole, King Ralph (movie, 1991)
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Colonel (Retired) Aldridge: Leadership
Integrity = Trust = Influence = Leadership. Integrity in a leader results in trust from his followers; leaders that are trusted have influence power over their followers; leadership is the ability to influence followers to do something they would not ordinarily do.
Retired Col Alridge, Air Command and Staff College
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Gennaro Anguilo: Leadership
When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy. In the simplest terms: more rank, more responsibility, more accountability.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Leadership
Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.
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David Marquet: Leadership
Being a leader in service to others is the triumph of deliberate actions, over impulsive reactions.
(“How Great Leaders Serve Others”, TEDxScott AFB, 2012)
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Ph.D. Wess Roberts: Leadership
Leadership is the privilege to have the responsibility to direct the actions of others in carrying out the purpose of the organization, at varying levels of authority and with accountability for both successful and failed endeavors.
(From Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun)
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Michael Ronza: Leadership
Interoperability with our equipment builds synergy... but this takes years and dollars. The quick fix is developing an interoperability of ideas... this takes leadership.
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President Theodore Roosevelt: Leadership
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
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