JLBC Lesson 1-4 Introduction to JLBC Leadership

JLBC Lesson 1-4 Introduction to JLBC Leadership

I. What is said by others about JLBC leadership?

Notable Quotes:

A. Leadership is an Example

JLBC Cadets “The best example of leadership is leadership by example.” –Jerry McClain

JLBC Cadets “Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.” –Albert Einstein

JLBC Cadets “The difference between a boss and a leader is that a boss says, ‘Go!’ while a leader says, ‘Let’s go!’” –E. M. Kelly

JLBC Cadets “Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.” –Thomas J. Watson

“A leader knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”

–John Maxwell

B. Leadership is Character

JLBC Cadets “The greater a man is in authority above others, the more they ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to rule who is not better than the governed.” –Publius Syrus

C. Leadership is Influence

JLBC Cadets “Leadership is influence—nothing more, nothing less.” –John C. Maxwell

“A leader influences a specific group of people to move in a God-given direction.” –J. Robert Clinton

JLBC Cadets “The only test of leadership is that somebody follows.” –Robert K. Greenleaf

“Leaders don’t force people to follow; they invite them on a journey.”

–Charles S. Lauer

JLBC Cadets “Leadership is the desire and ability to inspire individual achievement, while a leader is just an individual at the top of the heap worried about his own.” –Keith Mullen

“Leadership is the art form of getting someone else to do something you want to be done because they want to do it.” –Dwight D. Eisenhower.