April Bloomfield Quotes

To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It's about stimulating them. It's about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do that with a purpose.

Leadership is service to others.

Leadership is a position where you want to create the opportunity to inspire people to walk along beside you, not listen to what you say.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

Leadership and partnership go together.

Leadership does not mean domination

I have been tremendously impacted and influenced by my coaches. It's nice to play for people that are going to support you.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power. And I try to model that in all of my interactions.

I just want to be a leader.

That's part of being a leader, being the guy that people look to and making everybody around you better.

Xavier has been the ultimate role model. No matter how far away we are geographically, working together is something we feed off of.

The leadership of Christine Rampone goes without saying. She is the definition of a what a leader is.

Before I became a leader, I thought success was all about building myself up. But then, once I became a leader, I realized that success is about building others up.

What makes a leader great is not the fact that she (or he) has all the answers, but the ability to inspire and empower us to find the answers.

Leadership is more about clarity than it is about control.

My mentor said, 'Let's go do it', not 'You go do it'. How powerful when someone says, 'Let's!'

Choose great people and shine in their shadows

Leaders need to remember that the point of leading is not to cross the finish line first. It's to take people across the finish line with you. For that reason, leaders must deliberately slow their pace, stay connected to their people, enlist others to help fulfill the vision, and keep people going. You can't do that if you're running too far ahead of your people.

When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.

It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.