Leadership Proverbs
August 12th, 2008 | by Ed |I found it interesting to see Bill Hybels latest book Axiom: Powerful Leadership Proverbs, because I too am a collector of proverbs, axioms, and pithy sayings that communicate a volume of truth in a short saying–not only about leadership but about life.
Along the way, I’ve picked up a number of leadership proverbs that have helped me in my own leadership. So here’s a dozen of my favorites:
- A position only gives you subordinates, not followers.
- A leader is the first person through the minefield.
- Leadership is cultivating in people the willingness to follow you into something new for the sake of accomplishing something great.
- Beware the seduction of the secondary.
- Leaders comfort the aflicted and afflict the comfortable.
- You teach what you know but you impart who you are.
- A person who is one step ahead of others is called a leader; a person who is ten steps ahead of others is called a martyr.
- Even if you’re drowning, act like you planned it that way.
- Never trust someone who doesn’t walk with a limp.
- Leave nothing to chance, then leave everything to God.
- There are no great people, just ordinary people who serve a great cause.
- Someone who is putting on his armor shouldn’t boast like someone who’s taking it off (1 Kgs. 20:11).