“We define leadership . . . as a skill of influencing people to work enthusiastically toward goals identified as being for the common good.”
~James C. Hunter

“The successful leader gets superior performance from ordinary people.
~Al Kaltman

“The leader’s job is to provide an empowering environment that enables employees to serve their customers and provides them the training, education, and support they need.”
~Bill George

“Leaders provide a mental picture of a preferred future and then ask people to follow them there.”
~Andy Stanley

“Leadership is getting others to want to do something that you are convinced should be done.”
~Vance Packard

“Leadership is mobilizing others toward a goal shared by the leader and followers.”
~Garry Wills

“Leadership is ultimately about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen.”
~Alan Keith

“A leader is one who mobilizes; one whose focus is influencing people; a person who is goal driven; someone who has an orientation in common with those who rely upon him for leadership; and someone who has people willing to follow them,” and “Leadership is the process of motivating, mobilizing, strategically pursue a vision from God that a group jointly embraces.”
~ George Barna

“I consider leadership to be the exercise of one’s special gifts under the call of God to serve a certain group of people in achieving the goals God has given them toward the end of glorifying Christ.”
~Kenneth O. Gangel

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”
~Dwight D. Eisenhower

(Quotes taken from Launching a Leadership Revolution by Chris Brady and Orrin Woodward, pg. 5)

Take a minute to share your definition of what leadership is— or share ‘words’ that you feel describe a leader.

Here is a start:  trustworthy, other-focused, team player, taking responsibility, integrity.

I look forward to hearing from you—