When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.
Interpretation
Leadership involves responsibility, not privilege.
This quote by Jack Welch emphasizes that being a leader is not about enjoying power or status, but rather about the duty to help others reach their full potential. It conveys the idea that true leadership is measured by the positive impact one has on their team and community.
In practice
During a team meeting, you can quote this to remind everyone that leadership is about supporting each other's growth.
You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
I wanted to change the rules of engagement, asking for more- from fewer. I was insisting that we had to have only the best people...If you wanted excellence, at a minimum, the ambience had to reflect excellence.
A leader's role is not to control people or stay on top of things, but rather to guide, energize and excite.
Control your own destiny or someone else will.
The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don't like to use the word efficiency. It's creativity. It's a belief that every person counts.
An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.
You have to take ownership and leadership of tomorrow. For that to be possible, you have to strengthen your capacity and widen your vision as a global citizen.
We need to have people up there who can communicate what it feels like, not just pilots and engineers.
If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.
Organizational structures that allow divisions and departments to own their turf and people with long tenure to take root creates the same hardened group distinctions as Congressional redistricting to produce homogeneous voting blocs - all of which makes it easier to resist compromise, let alone collaboration.
Bear Island knows no king but the King in the North, whose name is STARK.
We need leaders, we ourselves need to lead from a place that has the audacity to believe that we ourselves can extend the fundamental assumption that all men are created equal to every, man woman and child on this planet. And we need the humility to recognize that we cannot do it alone.
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