Your followers are interested in going where you have gone before. Take them where you have been and let them know what took you there. They’ll learn by your example.
~ Israelmore Ayivor
People who praise a leader even when he is doing the wrong things are the main reasons why his fall is near.
Whether it is in business life or in political roles, leaders rise up to offer the solutions to problems society faces. They act with the right actions at the right time.
Leaders don’t fall in love with mediocrity. The status quo isn’t their desire to maintain but to improve.
The courageous attitude of a leader awakens the dormant attitude of followers. The dormant attitude of a leader weakens the passionate attitude of followers. Leadership determines everything.
To know if someone can speak offensively or politely, don’t give him poem to recite; don’t give him a song to sing. Just engage him in an argument and you will know it for yourself who he is.
People easily become familiar with what you teach them practically than what you tell them verbally. Action fixes images in their minds and they can carry those images for a long period.
A leader does not only discover what people can do better. He teaches, guides and mentor them to do it exceptionally well. When a seed comes into contact with a leader, fruits are produced.
Management informs. Leadership applies. The effective managers inform accurately. Effective leaders apply wisely.
Leaders are farmers, they cultivate human beings by adding values to them till they are fully grown as successful people for harvesting.
The leader who listens is the one society needs most. They don’t force their commands on people. They pay attention to their demands and set the pace for the change that society truly needs.
When you are a person people can trust, they will call on upon you, love to be around you and work with you.
The growth of an organization is not dependent on the number of employees in its register. It is dependent on the number of employees who show dedication and commitment to the vision of the organization.
Leadership is about taking steps while management is about drawing the map on the steps to take. Managers simply plan, leaders simply execute!
The public personality of a leader is not what really matters. What he does out of the open stage really tells more about him than anything else.
Leadership is about focus and concentrations. To be in focus, choose a clear direction. To concentrate, remain in that direction!
Leaders heal, they don’t kill. They unite, they don’t disintegrate.
Everyone has a kind of limitation respectively. Leaders don’t allow their own to obscure them in a small corner.
By means of positive imaginations, leaders bring the future to the present so that they can work on it before setting off to enter it.
Everyone in the organizations is very important. From the sweeper to the security officer; from the messenger to the manager, everyone doing well at his post is a leader. The organization becomes a leading one when it’s made up of people leading in their roles.
The simplest way to silence your critics as a leader is to do what they claim you can’t do. However, be careful they don’t set you up to take fatal risks to please their criticisms.
Leaders are deep thinkers. They don’t relax for problem to lay eggs before they attempt dealing with them.
You can’t lead people if you can’t lead yourself. Self-leadership qualities qualifies you to become a co-operate leader.
Between a plan and it’s achievement is a leader in the middle. With his one arm he makes the plan. With the other one he carries them through.
Leaders know the great deal of productivity that comes out of a strong self-esteem. They help others to develop this esteem so that productivity can increase.
A leader does not lose focus because he wants to please his followers.
Leaders show examples. They have something to offer and they’ll offer it by the process of how they got it. Anyone who has no examples to show may not lead better.
The real character of leaders does not show in fair weathers. When the sun of life begins to go hot, you will see for yourself some leaders are already melting off!
The time it takes to fall from the top of a mountain to the floor it shorter than what it takes to climb from the floor to the top. Only leaders with character can maintain their trusts.
The speed at which progress rolls is not determined by the number of people who started pushing it, but by the number of people who are passionate to hold on doing so.
Leaders are lovers of change. Without change, growth is static. To lead, you have to appreciate change; else change will depreciate you!
The common goal of leaders is to increase the value and productivity of people. Leaders inspire others to do better than they would have done when not inspired.
The most essential requirement for leaders is neither age nor gender. It is neither certificates nor positions. It is the character that reveals trust and exemplary life.
People can destroy people, People can also decorate. The former are misleaders, the latter are leaders.
If you fall into a pit, you need a ladder, not a hoe. You must climb up and not dig up. Leaders discover the right way out of limitations.
Leaders create influence with the clays of criticism others throw at them. They don't take offence, they take corrections.
A leader who sows confidence will reap excellency and legacy. A leader who sows fear will reap stagnancy or complacency.
People can push people down, People can also push people up. The former are misleaders, the latter are leaders.
Leaders decorate the world, character is their paint. They live exemplary life and make the world better than they found it.
Leaders do not conform; they reform. If you conform, you are nurturing mediocrity. If you reform, you are breeding change.
