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Today’s post is just two light-hearted and slightly comical quotes. The first is from the Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase – Dallas Region, Elaine Agather.
Quote about leadership from Elaine Agather:
“The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.”
The nature or nurture debate is quite common in leadership theory. Basically, is a leader born a leader or is leadership something that a leader learns over a lifetime. I personally tend to lean toward the later, but I do acknowledge that certain personality traits are beneficial for effective leadership. Leadership is definitely an art with only certain facets able to be defined in more scientific approaches.
The second quote is entirely just for laughs from a comedian who is known for his “full” mustache.
Quote about leaders from Julius Henry “Groucho” Marx:
“Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men — the other 999 follow women.”
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2 responses so far ↓
1 Joanne Leith // Sep 12, 2008 at 1:29 am
It’s important that a leader has a good sense of humour, but more important that they can laugh at themselves. I think that the best leaders, with high emotional intelligence, are the ones that can stop and have a good laugh!
2 Jonathan Frye // Sep 12, 2008 at 7:45 am
Hi Joanne,
That is very true. Thank you for your comment.
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