Servant Leadership Teaches Us That You Have

If Knowing Yourself And Being Yourself Were As Easy To Do As To Talk About, There Wouldn't Be Nearly So Many People Walking Around In Borrowed Postures, Spouting Secondhand Ideas, Trying Desperately To Fit In Rather Than To Stand Out.

Judgment Without Character Is Expediency... Or Worse.

The Most Dangerous Leadership Myth Is That Leaders Are Born - That There Is A Genetic Factor To Leadership. This Myth Asserts That People Simply Either Have Certain Charismatic Qualities Or Not. That's Nonsense; In Fact, The Opposite Is True. Leaders Are Made Rather Than Born.

This Is More Than Just Having A Vision. You Can See The Difference In The Often-cited Way In Which Steve Jobs Brought In John Sculley To Take Over Apple. At The Time, Sculley Was Destined To Be The Head Of Pepsico. The Clincher Came When Jobs Asked Him, "how Many More Years Of Your Life Do You Want To Spend Making Colored Water When You Can Have An Opportunity To Come Here And Change The World?"

Good Leaders Make People Feel That They're At The Very Heart Of Things, Not At The Periphery.