The self-discovery of your inherent leadership potential and an understanding of who you are and what you are meant to be are the keys to fulfilling your purpose from existence as a leader.
They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher.
Chavez is not Chavez. Chavez is the people! And the people will not be stopped.
I never thought of myself as the leader. The most important person, perhaps.
I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.
Own the leadership style that makes you you. If you are an empathetic leader by nature, embrace that.
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way.
Being a woman leader is secondary to me - and should be to others.
I've never gotten up in front of a Muslim congregation and played the role of a religious leader, and I decline those invitations because that's not what I am.
Ed Miliband should be out and proud about his abstruse interests, his Master's in Economics, his political obsession, his prioritising of the mental over the physical.
For too long, I equated leadership with a position. I thought leaders were presidents or politicians or celebrities or four-star generals with a horse and sword.
A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values, his basic identity...one must first embark on the formidable journey of self-discovery in order to create a vision with authentic soul.
Your style can be an artistic part of your personal leadership journey.
One of the most important things for any leader is to never let anyone else define who you are. And you define who you are. I never think of myself as being a woman CEO of this company. I think of myself as a steward of a great institution.
I had no plan for that year but it wound up being one of the most important years of my football coaching career. It hit me along the way that I needed to really get at the heart of what's really true to myself. And then I was able to mold it and shape it in the years at SC to become the approach and the concept and the culture that we try to create here at Seattle.
Most people think of leadership as a position and therefore don't see themselves as leaders.
There have been people who said I was a Pat Riley clone. But I don't think that's true. While I did learn a lot from him, I could never be him. I mean, we even dress so differently.
It's very hard to imagine anybody being president when the stuff that's written about them is empty of who they are.
I’m not the woman president of Harvard, I’m the president of Harvard.
If my ambition was to stay a manager the rest of my life, then I'd probably follow what people think managers are supposed to be like, but my ambition was never to be a manager.
I never thought of myself as a woman leader or Latina leader; I just thought of myself as a leader.
Ronald Reagan knew who he was. Barack Obama is still working through that equation politically.
To me, it's about always trying to make decisions that reflect my leadership and who I am.
I don't feel like the 'first,' or the last, or a lady. I am Brigitte Macron!
