Benjamin Hooks, Retired Director of NAACP
If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.
If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
I believe in the revolution of empowerment.
Our chief want is someone to inspire us to be what we know we could be.
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I’ve learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you, they will magnify your power to lead.
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.
Too often, we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.