“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
~John F Kennedy

“The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.”
~Eric Hoffer

To lead people, walk beside them…
As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence.
The next best, the people honor and praise.
The next, the people fear;
and the next, the people hate…
When the best leader’s work is done the people say,
“We did it ourselves!”
~Lao-tsu

“The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on… The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.”
~Walter Lippmann

“People ask the difference between a leader and a boss… The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.”
~Theodore Roosevelt

On July 17, 2008, Al Gore challenged the United States to do the right thing in the same spirit that John F. Kennedy challenge us to go to the moon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAnQ1cFA_zM&eurl=http://www.leadershipjot.com/2008/07/27/al-gore%e2%80%99s-challenge-to-america/

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Today is the day that 40 years ago Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. I don’t like to refer to these circumstances as anniversaries, because an anniversary is a good occasion like in marriage. The assassination of a leader is a dark circumstance in our nation’s history.

Bobby Kennedy, as he was known, was the younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and served as US Attorney General during his brother’s administration. From 1965 until his assassination, was a US Senator from New York. In the early morning hours of June 5th, 1968, he won the California Democrat Primary and after giving his speech he was shot in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.

Bobby Kennedy stood for issues of civil rights, racial and economic justice, against the Vietnam War, and supporting foreign policy of non-aggression.

Quote about failure from Bobby Kennedy:
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”

Blogging about failure on a website about leadership may strike some as odd, but I find it important for leaders to understand the role that failure plays in developing leadership potential.

Below are articles that I have written about failure:

• 3-Steps for How to Respond to Failure
• Achieve Success in a New Year
• Committing to not Fail and Learning to Succeed
• Learning from Failure through Interest and Focus with Donald Trump and Winston Churchill
• Persevering and Success after Mistakes and Failures with Peter Drucker and John Maxwell
• Quote about Success and Failure from Sir Winston Churchill
• The Story about a Leader who Failed much but Succeeded in Greatness

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