“The difference between can and cannot are only three letters. Three letters that determine your life's direction.” — Ramez Sasson
Program Overview: Powerful Thoughts—How to Master Self-Talk
Limited Time Only: for $55 USD for 30-day access to the course. You can get a full refund anytime during the first two-weeks. Optional coaching and mentoring available at a special rate of $75 per hour.
This is a Self-Paced Class—you can access it at your own pace for 30 days. You gain access to: six videos, 15 articles, four application assignments.
“Riches, mediocrity and poverty begin in the mind.” — Ramez Sasson
The Definition of Leadership
As part of one's process of leadership development, one needs to define leadership. Coming up with a leadership definition is surprisingly difficult. There is even a fair amount of confusion in the business schools where we see many professors act as though leader and manager are the same role.
A Dictionary Definition
Function: noun 1 : the office or position of a leader; 2 : capacity to lead 3 : the act or an instance of leading — Source: Merriam-Webster On-line
Leadership Definition 1
"My
definition of a leader . . . is a man who can persuade
people to do what they don't want to do, or do what they're
too lazy to do, and like it." — Harry
S. Truman, 1884-1972, Thirty-third President of the United
States, Miller, More Plan Speaking
Leadership Definition
2
"You
cannot manage men into battle. You manage things; you lead
people." — Grace
Hopper, Admiral, U. S. Navy (retired), Nova ( PBS TV), 1986
Leadership Definition
3
"The
superior leader gets things done with very little motion.
He imparts instruction not through many words but through
a few deeds. He keeps informed about everything but interferes
hardly at all. He is a catalyst, and though things would
not get done well if he weren'tt there, when they
succeed he takes no credit. And because he takes no credit,
credit never leaves him." — Lao Tse, Tao
Te Ching
Leadership Definition
4
"Leadership occurs when one person induces
others to work toward some predetermined objectives." — Massie
Leadership Definition
5
"Leadership is the ability of a superior
to influence the behavior of a subordinate or group and
persuade
them
to follow a particular course of action." — Chester Bernard
Leadership Definition
6
"Leadership is the art to of influencing
and directing people in such a way that will win their
obedience,
confidence,
respect and loyal cooperation in achieving common objectives." — U. S. Air Force
Leadership Definition
7
"The feminine leadership style emphasizes cooperation over competition; intuition as well as rational thinking in problem solving, team structures where power and influence are shared within the group . . . interpersonal competence; and participative decision making." — Marilyn Loden, Founder and president, Loden Associates, Management Review, December 1987
Leadership Definition
8
"The first job of a leader is to define
a vision for the organization.... Leadership of the capacity
to translate vision into reality." — Warren Bennis, President, University
of Cincinnati, University of Maryland symposium, January
21, 1988
Leadership Definition
9
"The ultimate test of practical leadership
is the realization of intended, real change that meets
people’s enduring needs." — James MacGregor Burns
Leadership Definition
10
"Managers have subordinates—leaders
have followers." — Murray Johannsen
Leadership Definition
11
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." — John Quincy Adams quotes (American 6th US President (1825-29), eldest son of John Adams, 2nd US president. 1767-1848)
Leadership Definition
12
"I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done." — Henry Ford
Leadership Definition
13
"Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down. Respect for one's superiors; care for one's crew." — Grace Hopper, Admiral, U. S. Navy (retired), Speech, Washington, D. C., February 1987
Leadership Definition
14
"As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; the next, the people hate." — Lao Tse, 604-531 B. C., Chinese philosopher and founder of Taoism, Tao Te Ching
Leadership Definition
15
"A manager takes people where they want to go. A great leader
takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought
to." — Rosalyn
Carter
A
Final Word . . .
"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 them 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; who spends
himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end
the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if
he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his
place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither
victory or defeat." — Theodore
Roosevelt, American President
The Foundation Course on Transformational Leadership
Six Modules:
• The Transformational Leadership Style
• The Transformational Mindset
• Increasing Your Influence
• Increasing Self-Mastery
• Getting Skilled at Skill Development
• Your Skills Assessment: Making the Transition
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