LEADERSHIP

Here are some excellent quotes and resources on the topic of Leadership

Quotes

"Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious ... think about these things."
— Philippians 4:8... The Bible

Favorite (non-biblical) quote - from Theodore Roosevelt "Man in the Arena"

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, 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, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; 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 cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."

The quote comes from his "Citizenship in a Republic" speech in Paris, 1910. The entire speech is well worth the read.

 

"To stimulate creativity, one must develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition."
— Albert Einstein

 

"The true leader serves. Serves people. Serves their best interests, and in so doing will not always be popular, may not always impress. But because true leaders are motivated by loving concern rather than a desire for personal glory, they are willing to pay the price."

— Eugene B. Habecker
The Other Side of Leadership

 

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." 

— David Brinkley
Television Journalist

 

"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you are right."
— Henry Ford

 

"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand."
— General Colin Powell

 

Legendary Thoughts - Some excellent quotes from legendary leaders like Lincoln, Roosevelt, Macarthur ... organized by topic.

 

Books

Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun
Wess Roberts

Victory Secrets of Attila the Hun
Wess Roberts, Ph.D.

On Leadership
John William Gardner

Theodore Roosevelt on Leadership : Executive Lessons from the Bully Pulpit
James M. Strock

Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence
David Keirsey

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... And Others Don't
Jim Collins

 

Articles

The Focus of Leadership
Michael McKinney

The Persistence of Vision
Michael McKinney

The Problem with Time Management
Vince Thompson

Gerenal Douglas Macarthur's Principles of Leadership
excerpted from John Gartner's book On Leadership

The Top Ten Reasons Projects Fail (Part 4)
Frank Winters on Leadership (and lack thereof)

Sites

The purpose of LeadershipNow is to help build a community of leaders by developing people at all levels of society.

The LeaderShop provides resources for developing leadership skills and for understanding the issues of our times.

Fast Company magazine was founded on a single premise: A global revolution was changing business, and business was changing the world. Discarding the old rules of business, Fast Company set to chronicle how changing companies create and compete, to highlight new business practices, and to showcase the teams and individuals who are inventing the future and reinventing business.

Harvard Business School's "Working Knowledge" publication is an excellent resource for topics like Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Management, Social Enterprise and Strategy

Tom Peters' blog is fun and informative on a variety of issues relating to how and why we work

CalTech Leadership Workshop provides the tools and models to help you as a leader accurately assess the workers, the situation, and yourself

Questia has dozens of books and journal articles on leadership.