The Leadership Revolution: Mastering the Art of Leadership Together
Real Success is finding your life’s work in the work that you love ~David McCulloughThe Leadership Challenge by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner
“What we have discovered, and rediscovered, is that leadership is not the private reserve of a few charismatic men and women. It is a process ordinary people use when they are bringing forth the best from themselves and others. What we’ve discovered is that people make extraordinary things happen by liberating the leader within everyone.”
. . . everything rises and falls
” . . . everything rises and falls on leadership.”
~John Maxwell
We need leaders who—
We need leaders of inspired idealism, leaders to whom are granted great visions, who dream greatly and strive to make their dreams come true; who can kindle the people with the fire from their own burning souls.”
~President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt
–Own the Vision Completely–
“Leaders have to own the vision completely. It must be a perception of a coming reality to which [they] are totally committed.”
~George Barna
Good to Great by Jim Collins
Great leaders have ambition beyond their own personal self-interest. They are not satisfied with personal success only, but focus almost entirely upon furthering the vision of the enterprise.
What Is Leadership? Quotes
“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)
What is Leadership?
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—
Why Leadership?
Many are interested in leadership for what they imagine it can provide them, including:
1. Power
2. Control
3. Perks or Being Served.
But the life of a leader is quite different from such expectations. The life of a leader involves:
1. Giving Power (empowering)
2. Helping others fix problems and move forward
3. Serving others.
Leaders lead for the joy of creating something bigger than themselves.
~From Launching a Leadership Revolution, pg. 7
