A Few More Thoughts on Leadership

                    

As long as public office continues to attract takers over leavers, most of us will continue to get taken.

                    

Swagger does not a silverback make.

                 

A politician tells us what we want to hear; a leader, what we will hold against him in the next election.

             

Leadership not reluctant is not.

               

What politicians lack in modesty and imagination they more than make up for in glibness and guile.

On Leadership: Food for Thought

Leadership is one part enlightenment, one part courage, two parts humility, simmered over the steady heat of a compassionate heart.

                    

The true leader runs not for office but from it.

                   

As long as public office continues to attract takers over leavers, most of us will continue to get taken.

                    

Swagger does not a silverback make.