Pastoral Resources

When you have a clearly open homosexual scout leader, the scouts are going to talk about it. And they're not there to learn about that. They're there to learn about what it means to be loyal and trustworthy and thrifty.

To its great credit, Wimbledon has been a leader in bringing about change and improvement in the sport.

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

My point is cutting spending shouldn't be reliant on the debt limit though. It's something we have to do. The good news for America is, leaders in both parties, the president, believe that we have to have significant deficit reduction. So the intent is there. And I think what America is going to demand is that our leaders come together.

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.

There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party.

Everyone matures. When I was Newt's age, I thought I had the right answer to things. The baby-boomers as political leaders are still on trial by the American people.

Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.

The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader - the CEO.

If your goal is anything but profitability - if it's to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader - you'll hit problems.

I'm quite modest. I don't want to tell people I'm a leader.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.