Leadership Quote from Harold Geneen:
“Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.”

To Be

Not only will everything you say be held against you, but everything that you do will be held against you as well.  That is why leadership requires content of character.  Leadership has to stem from the very fiber of your being, from the depths of who you are.  You cannot merely give lip service and call that leadership.  You have to back up what you say with what you do. 

To Develop

To be a leader, you have to develop your leadership potential.  Your leadership potential is the ability that you possess to be a leader at the moments when your leadership is required.  If leadership is through a statement of confidence when times are tough, your statement will mean very little if those who hear it either do not believe you as a question of integrity or do not trust you as a suspicion of competence.

To Think

Once of the simplest ways to develop your leadership potential is to learn to think as a leader.  Allow your thoughts to guide you in the correct actions and correct words.  To improve your thoughts of leadership, I recommend learning a few quotes from notable leaders.  A good quote contains a nugget of the theories and concepts of leadership and that nugget may be all that your conscious needs to feed to your unconscious to develop your leadership responses.

To Lead

Being a leader means practicing leadership and, that, of course, is the only way to lead.  You cannot wait for the right moment or wait until you have developed your responses.  Every moment contains an opportunity.  As you develop your leadership potential than you will develop your ability to perceive the best responses at every moment.  Don’t let a moment pass by without projecting your leadership.

You cannot purport leadership; you have to be a leader.

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