Focus on Leadership Quotes

“Dee Hock. Chapter: Leadership and the Chaordic Age.
Competition and Cooperation are not opposites. They amplify each other when held in the proper balance. 314.
At bottom we have an institutional and leadership problem. 318.
But this I do know with certainty: It's far too late, and things are far too bad for pessimism. We might as well get a smile on our face and get on with it. If we caused the problem, we can cause the solution—if we have the will and the courage and we care enough. In times like these, it's no failure to fall short of realizing all that we might dream. The failure is to fall short of dreaming all that we might realize. 319”
― Larry C. Spears, Focus on Leadership: Servant-Leadership for the Twenty-First Century

“David S. Young, Chapter: Foresight, the Lead that the Leader Has. Through foresight we help congregations shape an incremental, measurable three-year plan. This is a very artistic process. I use a triangle and have the church members put their vision on the top, the strengths on the lower angle, and the need on the other angle. I put foresight in the center.”
― Larry C. Spears, Focus on Leadership: Servant-Leadership for the Twenty-First Century

“Lee Gruenfield, novelist: It's human nature, this propensity in the face of the profound to be distracted by the trivial.”
― Larry C. Spears, Focus on Leadership: Servant-Leadership for the Twenty-First Century

“Robert Greenleaf: If caring is needed to protect an institution, what are the requirements necessary to make it work? First, the sense of purpose and objective. Second, the talent to manage the process for reaching new objectives. Finally, and let me surprise you by emphasizing this third need, we need people who care about the institution. A deep sense of caring for the institution is required for its success.”
― Larry C. Spears, Focus on Leadership: Servant-Leadership for the Twenty-First Century

“Robert Greenleaf: Caring for persons, the more able and the less able serving each other, is the basis for leadership, the rock upon which a good society is built. In small organizations, caring is largely person to person. But now, most caring is mediated through institutions—often large, complex, powerful, impersonal, and not always competent, sometimes corrupt.”
― Larry C. Spears, Focus on Leadership: Servant-Leadership for the Twenty-First Century

“Antonio Machado (Spanish poet): Your walking, your footprints are the road and nothing else; there is no road, walker; You make the road by walking.”
― Larry C. Spears, Focus on Leadership: Servant-Leadership for the Twenty-First Century

“Henry Moore: You need to hold questions that cannot be fully completed or lived out within the span of your lifetime.”
― Larry C. Spears, Focus on Leadership: Servant-Leadership for the Twenty-First Century