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Leadership
• "The truth is that no one factor
makes a company admirable.
But if you were forced to pick
the one that makes the most
difference, you'd pick
leadership.“
(Warren Gamaliel Bennis, an American
scholar, organizational consultant and
author)

Leadership - Warren Bennis

 The Institute for Strategic Change reports that the
stock price of companies perceived to be
well-led grew 900 per cent over 10 years
versus 74 per cent for companies
perceived to lack good leadership

Leadership
• An effective leader is not someone who is loved or
admired. He or she is someone whose followers do the
right things. Popularity is not leadership

Popularity is not
leadership
• Leadership is influence
Nothing more nothing less

• Learn to say 'no' to the

good so you can say 'yes'
to the best.
21 irrefutable laws of
leadership
(John C. Maxwell; Author, speaker who has
written many books)

Leadership- John C. Maxwell

The Five Levels of Leadership
A Look at Why People Follow Their Leaders
The Five Levels of Leadership
I. Position:
Rights - People follow you because they have to.

II. Permission:
Relationships - People follow because they want
to.
III. Production:
Results - People follow because of what you have
done for the organization/team.
The Five Levels of Leadership

IV. People Development:

Reproduction - People follow because of
what you have done for them.

V. Personhood:
Respect - People follow because of who you are
and what you represent.
If your
actions inspire others to
dream more,
learn more,
do more and
become more,
you are a
leader.

Adams; John Quincy Adams was an American statesman who

served as the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829

Leadership - John Quincy Adams

Leadership is about Vision
Ability to Create a Bond
Make people work together
• Drive and passion (the element book)
• Desire to lead
• Integrity
• Self confidence
• Intelligence
• Job relevant knowledge

How to become a Leader?

• Create vision
• Build team
• Allocate task
• Develop people
• Motivate followers

Who is Leader
My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's
most influential persons may surprise some readers and
may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in
history who was supremely successful on both the religious
and secular levels.

(The 100, a Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History by

Michael H. Hart)