Inspiring Leadership Statments

Here is some inspiration from very successful people.

“It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”  (Douglas Adams)

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.“  (John Quincy Adams)

“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.”  (Andrew Carnegie)

“Management works in the system. Leadership works on the system.”  (Stephen R. Covey)

“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him….But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, “We did it ourselves.”  (Lao Tzu)

“I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.“  (Talleyrand)

“A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.”  (Russell H. Ewing)

“Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.”  (Warren Bennis)

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”  (John Fitzgerald Kennedy)

‘The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”  (Theodore Roosevelt)

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”  (Peter F. Drucker)

“Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.”  (Thomas Watson)

‘Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men — the other 999 follow women.“  (Groucho Marx)

“You do not lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.”  (Dwight D. Eisenhower)

Google Wave, it's going to change the world!

I heard about Google Wave when it was anounced after the I/O conference in Austalia.  I went to the web site and checked it out then.  But the video wasn’t up yet and I didn’t quite understand what they were trying to do.  I just went back and watched the video a couple of days ago, and now I am seeing  what they have developed at Google is truly amazing and revolutionary.  One of the really cool things is how open it is because they know and want people to start to get creative with the uses.  I think google has built a system and has the right philosophy and so it can thrive in the universe.  I already have plans for how I am going to use this At work, with my friends, With the scout troop I work with.  I am really looking forward to getting a chance to take a look.

looking over the communication in my life I spend a lot of time just making sure everyone is understanding.  I think, at least, electronically,  Wave will help us get to the point of understanding faster.  Therefore making communication more efficient.  I know this is going to make my life more productive.

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Get Ready for Google Wave – It will change the World!

It may be a little early to be predicting the future. But I believe Google Wave will quickly change the way people communicate on the internet. Check it out here. http://bit.ly/AHgzw

Social Media is becoming a new marketing tool

Check out this article from the Wall Street Journal

Business Week is syncing the comments on its social-networking site to Twitter, making it among the first major media companies to harness the popularity of the microblogging service.