Quotes about
leadership.
Eight lines about leadership from You Are Capable of More by Chris Sund. Put one on a wall, open a meeting with one, or keep one somewhere you will see it on the days you need it.
From Chris
Most people think leadership begins when someone gives them responsibility. A promotion, a title, a team, some authority. It begins much earlier than that. Long before leadership is recognized by anyone else, it is revealed in the choices you make when nobody is watching.
Confidence is not built in big moments. It is built in kept promises.
Before you ever lead another person, you are already leading yourself. The only question is whether you are doing it intentionally.
Good intentions can make you feel like you are moving forward while you are standing still.
Leadership does not require you to be the smartest person in the room or to have all the answers. It requires you to bring the best out of the people around you.
Leadership stopped being about titles and promotions and became about character, service, and personal growth.
Being the hardest worker in the room didn’t automatically make me the leader people wanted to follow.
People may follow instructions, but that doesn’t mean they believe in where you’re trying to take them.
I wasn’t waiting for motivation anymore. I was waiting for myself.
Where these lines
come from.
Lead Before You Are Asked
Principle eight. Leadership starts with how you lead yourself, and every kept promise is a deposit.
Read the Principle →How to Lead Before You Get the Title
What leadership looks like before anybody gives you authority.
Read It →How to Lead People Who Used to Be Your Peers
The first leadership job most people get, and the hardest.
Read It →Every line has
a chapter behind it.
You Are Capable of More: A No-Excuses Guide to Becoming Your Best Self. Ten principles, one chapter each, with the stories and the reasoning that make these more than nice sentences.
When I’ve got something worth sending.
Just a story or an idea I picked up that I think will help you.
Sometimes that’s twice in a month. Sometimes it’s not for a while.