The Leadership of Muhammad Quotes

“Those occupying leadership roles who completely lack integrity are what we call 'Blind shepherds'. They are not really 'bad' leaders, because they are not leaders at all: they are misleaders.”
― John Adair, The Leadership of Muhammad

“Humble people know their limitations: they know what they know, and they know what they do not know; they know what they can do or be, and they know what they cannot do or be”
― John Adair, The Leadership of Muhammad

“There is the authority of position and the authority of knowledge - 'Authority flows from the one who knows.' But sharing in hardship confers upon a leader something quite rare - moral authority.”
― John Adair, The Leadership of Muhammad

“Integrity is the noblest possession.
-Latin Proverb.”
― John Adair, The Leadership of Muhammad

“We know now that someone in a leadership role has three core and overlapping functions: to achieve the tasks, to hold a group together as a unity, and to meet individual needs.”
― John Adair, The Leadership of Muhammad

“In the harsh conditions of Arabia it was necessary for leaders and followers to live and work together side by side. Therefore leadership was never hierarchical. A leader was among the people, not over them. p 58”
― John Adair, The Leadership of Muhammad

“The pure-bred mare is not shamed by its trappings. p56”
― John Adair, The Leadership of Muhammad

“No Bedouin wished to be outdone in showing kindness to a guest in his tent - or to be shamed by the charge of not being open-handed or magnanimous. p 55”
― John Adair, The Leadership of Muhammad

“Apart from the qualities of muruwaa - courage, generosity, integrity, fairness, and honor or good reputation - a Bedouin chief needed practical wisdom, for he needed to be a skilled negotiator, to be able to resolve quarrels between his followers before they got out of hand, and to deal with allies from other tribes" p54”
― John Adair, The Leadership of Muhammad

“I have always endeavored to listen to chat each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes my own opinion will simply represent a consensus of what I heard in the discussion" (Mandela - p 31)”
― John Adair, The Leadership of Muhammad