“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” – John C. Maxwell  First, be a Leader Today’s quote is a short reminder to anyone in a position of authority – if you want “buy in” for your vision, you first need people to buy into YOU.  In short, you need to be a [...]

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” – John F. Kennedy Leaders are always learning. Yesterday’s quote highlighted the importance of experience as it relates to leadership.  Today’s quote continues by explaining that leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.  One important conclusion to draw from this statement is that a leader should [...]

“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.” – Aristotle  What does good leadership require? There are a number of traits that can improve our leadership capabilities – some are purely learned, others are gained only from experience.  I am a firm believer that being a good leader (in most situations) [...]

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams Am I a Leader? Yesterday’s quote by Eisenhower explained what leadership is.  Today’s quote by John Quincy Adams gives us some indicators to determine whether or not we are leaders.  As one [...]

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower What is Leadership? Continuing this week’s theme of Leadership, today’s quote is Dwight D. Eisenhower’s definition of what leadership is.  What we need to keep in mind is that there probably [...]