- Nov 07, 2020
Leadership Quotes
What it actually takes to lead well.
These leadership quotes come largely from voices in education reform, arguing that leadership, not technology, is what determines whether students succeed, and that building leadership capacity in a country takes sustained investment rather than shortcuts. See our Speeches for longer-form takes on the same theme.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership - if you're right about what you're stubborn about.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leadership does take work. And it should. If you aspire to be a leader, you ought to treat leadership as a craft, you ought to become a student of it, and you ought to work at it. And if you're not willing to work at it, well, you get what you give.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would assert that highly effective leaders are made more than they're born. Every leader I know who's been highly effective has worked hard at it, and they've been students of it. The more you're a student of leadership, the more you figure out what works for you and the more effective you're going to be.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Under Ed Miliband's leadership, we are changing both our party's structures and culture.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been about the power of a woman - accentuating the positive, deleting the negative, whether you're talking her body, her voice or her leadership.
- Necessary
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Presidential leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leadership is happening, but it's not coming from the leaders of the old institutions. Everywhere you look, you see these extraordinary, sparkling new initiatives that are under way.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020