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Entries Tagged as 'Defining Leadership'

To Lead is to Dream Learn Do and Become More

November 15th, 2007 · 2 Comments

John Quincy Adams 
The former US President, John Quincy Adams, who was also the son of the US’s second President, was a man who lived an amazing life and was able to influence several of America’s defining government policies like the Monroe Doctrine, Adams-Onís Treaty, Treaty of Ghent, and, even, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The son of [...]

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Tags: Defining Leadership · Developing Leadership · Diplomacy · Henry Kissinger · John Quincy Adams · Leadership · To Be · To Do · Vision

Defining Leadership with a Quote from Dr Myles Monroe

November 13th, 2007 · 13 Comments

Defining Leadership
Quote about leadership from Dr. Myles Monroe:
“Leadership is the capacity to influence others through inspiration motivated by passion, generated by vision, produced by a conviction, ignited by a purpose.”
Influence
Leadership is about influencing a group or team of people. It is not about power and coercion, although you may influence others to move in a [...]

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Tags: Defining Leadership · Leadership · Myles Munroe · To Be · To Do

Three Different Leaders of the Technician the Manager and the Entrepreneur

November 5th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Michael E. Gerber 
Michael E. Gerber wrote the groundbreaking book, The E-Myth, as a discussion about the obstacles that entrepreneurs encounter in starting a business. One part of the book discusses three different roles in an organization – the technician, the manager, and the entrepreneur. Gerber assigns a definition to each of these roles with a [...]

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Tags: Defining Leadership · Leadership · Leadership vs Management · Management · Micheal Gerber · To Be · To Do