July 9, 2025
Leaders must have vision, creativity, and the ability to influence others to follow and support them into uncharted and often risky territory.
July 8, 2025
The person you throw under the bus today could be driving it tomorrow.
July 7, 2025
You have to be odd to be number one.
July 6, 2025
Every responsibility you get, make it a pocket of greatness. If you do that, you are more likely to die of indigestion from too much responsibility than starvation from too little.
July 5, 2025
Leadership: The capacity and will to rally people to a common purpose together with the character that inspires confidence and trust.
July 4, 2025
Before you say you can't do something, try it.
July 3, 2025
Being American is more than a pride we inherit; it's the past we step into and how we repair it.
July 2, 2025
How does a project get to be a year late? One day at a time.
July 1, 2025
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
June 30, 2025
It's teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage. Both because it's so powerful and so rare.
June 29, 2025
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
— Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
June 28, 2025
The future promises only one thing: uncertainty. New challenges we face are going to make the old challenges look like a walk in the park. Hire someone to grow into those challenges with you.
June 27, 2025
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
June 26, 2025
If we hope to achieve racial equality in this country, we need leaders who are authentic, committed, and engaged; leaders from all different realms who use their voices and platforms to effect systemic change.
June 25, 2025
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to list to the needs of others.
June 24, 2025
I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.
June 23, 2025
Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
June 22, 2025
When it comes to life, the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or you take them with gratitude.
June 21, 2025
The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable.
June 20, 2025
Knowing what must be done does away with fear.
June 19, 2025
I learned that things are never as complicated as we imagine them to be. It is only our arrogance which seeks to find complicated answers to simple problems.
June 18, 2025
You either lead by example or you don't lead at all. You have to go first as a leader. That's what it takes to get others to follow your lead.
— Barry Z. Posner and James M. Kouzes
June 17, 2025
It's fine to celebrate success but it's more important to heed the lessons of failure
June 16, 2025
Great leaders never stop clarifying expectations, and they never stop mentoring.
June 15, 2025
Bravery is not a quality of the body. It is of the soul.
June 14, 2025
If you seek to lead, invest at least 50 percent of your time leading yourself--your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, and conduct.
June 13, 2025
Leaders don't inflict pain, they share pain
June 12, 2025
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
June 11, 2025
It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.
June 10, 2025
This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don’t wait.