8,953 Quotes About Leadership







  • Author Christopher Peterson
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    The leader exists to help others in an unbiased and unassuming way, nourishing any and all followers (“The wise leader is like water”).

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  • Author Christopher Peterson
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    Models of leader attributes that dominated in the early part of the 20th century emphasized leader traits. Several surveys and reviews of this literature identified a number of dispositional qualities that distinguished leaders from nonleaders, including intelligence, originality, dependability, initiative, desire to excel, sociability, adaptability, extroversion, and dominance. However, no single personal quality was strongly and consistently correlated with leadership.

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  • Author Christopher Peterson
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    Leadership reflects an orientation to promote, direct, and manage social action. This orientation is grounded in a need for dominance and constructive power. The effective engagement of leadership processes follows from high self-confidence and from significant cognitive and social capabilities.

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