14 thoughts on leadership that will inspire you!

The thoughts are mine. They don't belong to any of the leaders I have read about or witnessed their leadership abilities. But increasingly, I am beginning to believe that leadership outside of political office is more significant than leadership within it. Here are my thoughts: 
1.Progress in leadership can only be measured by significant movement and change. Time and space are variables. Where were you then, where are you now?
2.If you are still where you used to be, your leadership skills ought to be questioned: What's holding you back?
3.Leadership is rooting your goals in reality and engaging your followers in a step by step plan which they see as their own. 
4.Sticking to the plan is the challenge of leadership.Obstacles and distractions should be propellers not cogs. Progress is important.  
5.Leaders who do well should not be victims of self success. Heady, arrogant and conceited. There are still battles to fight, mountains to conquer. Look ahead! 
6.The end is always important, whether you are running a race, creating a product or executing a plan. 7.People may not remember the beginning(they hardly do) but the end is never forgotten. 
Activity is not accomplishment.
8.Legacy is seeing what you have left behind function even better after you have left. 
9.The leading edge is the ability to stand taller, last longer and work harder and smarter than the competition.
10. Once you break the rule of integrity in leadership, those that should follow you will do so with caution
11. If you can change your vision into a cause that touches peoples' lives, thy will follow you. 
12 followers ought to glean strategy, integrity and accomplishment off of their leaders, if they don't why should they follow? 
13 The true principles of leadership help us overwhelm the hostile environment, fix the inept tools and motivate one another to do better. 
14. Every leader has a headache, what makes them  different is the knowledge of the cure!