The leader has to

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. Eric Hoffer

Leadership is the art

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Half a century ago,

Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens. David Cameron

The day soldiers stop

The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. Colin Powell

Leadership is solving problems.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. Colin Powell

If you want to

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You’ve got to think

You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. Alvin Toffler