Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers ...

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

— Colin Powell

Given the challenges and adversity we face in business and life today, Jon Gordon provides a clear road map to navigate the negativity and…

— Tom Gegax

Most great leaders are also great communicators. Great leaders have learned how to persuade so their objectives can be reached. The most powerful device…

— Nancy Duarte

One of the things that are consistent amongst all great leaders is they're a great teammate that is invested in the guys around them…

— Sean McVay

Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes…

— Walt Whitman

Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.

— John F. Kennedy

Great leaders and great organizations are good at seeing what most of us can’t see. They are good at giving us things we would…

— Simon Sinek

Good leaders set vision, missions, and goals. Great leaders inspire every follower at every level to internalize their purpose, and to understand that their…

— Colin Powell

“Great leaders don't make excuses. They make things better. They are not unrealistic or blind to the difficulties they face. They simply are not…

— Henry T. Blackaby

Most experts and great leaders agree that leaders are made, not born, and that they are made through their own drive for learning and…

— Carol S. Dweck

“Great leaders are great storytellers. These leaders know that they must tell powerful stories to engage and enlist their followers. They know that storytelling…

— Nick Morgan

“This book is really about the making of a great leader. In my own research and writings over many decades, I have concluded the…

— Uday Mahurkar

It's a very simple thing on the make-or-break decision, it's the guy, and that's what separates the great leaders and great successes, and if…

— Donny Deutsch

We always want our leaders to be great leaders.

— Dean Devlin

I think you can improve on that natural ability with training and exposure to great leaders of the past and to management theories.

— Colin Powell