“When you spend time and energy to help leaders reach their potential, retention takes care of itself” - Conaty and Charan

“Feedback is best when it is targeted, constructive, and candid.” - Conaty and Charan

“In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive, and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding.” – Daniel Goleman #leadership

“Trying to get people to comprehend a vision of an alternative future is … a communication challenge of a completely different magnitude from organizing them to fulfill a short term plan.” - John Kotter on #leadershipcommunication

“The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers reaching their potential. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace?” - Max DePree #leadership

“You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow too.” – Sam Rayburn

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. -- Warren Bennis

“The ultimate test of a leader, isn’t the magnitude of his or her ministry, but whether that leader trains other leaders who can sustain the … organization when he or she is no longer present.” - Malphurs and Mancini

“Leaders expand ministry by making more leaders: the growth curve is the leadership curve.” - Malphurs and Mancini

“The job of the leader isn’t just to enlist more followers but to recruit and equip more and better leaders. It’s the leaders’ responsibility to develop other leaders.” - Malphurs and Mancini

On Team Members: “We look for intelligence, we look for initiative or energy, and we look for integrity. And if they don't have the latter, the first two will kill you, because if you're going to get someone without integrity, you want them lazy and dumb.” - Warren Buffett

“Every leader has potential, but not every leader reaches their potential…. The failure of leaders to reach their potential harms not only the leaders themselves, but also the people they lead.” - Etheredge

“[Jesus] intentionally spent the next three years of His life with these leaders growing their faith, character, leadership, and ability to produce more disciples. Jesus was starting off His ministry building a culture of leadership development.” - Mac Lake

“Although leadership is a complex process, almost anyone can develop the skills necessary to lead effectively…. Leaders are developed through learning, experience, and mentoring.” - Hackman & Johnson

“It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” – John Wooden