Inspiring Leadership: Learning from Great Leaders by John Adair
By John Adair
Who're the good leaders in background and what can the train us this present day in regards to the nature and perform of management? John Adair has introduced jointly a variety of charges from inspiring leaders, from Machiavelli to Mandela.
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He or she should win respect without courting popularity. • There is a difference between managing – administration, planning and controlling – and leadership. A good leader does those things but transcends them: he or she has the secret of arousing the willing and enthusiastic support of others to the common task at hand. • The story of Xenophon’s assault on the Carduci illustrates another cardinal principle of leadership. Leaders encourage people. They renew spirits, giving others fresh courage to pursue the common course of action.
The Tao principle is what happens of itself’, wrote Lao Tzu. The art of living, then, is more like steering a boat than struggling with an opponent. The image of water, flowing or still in cool, clear ponds, is never far from Lao’s mind. Tzu jan, ‘Nature’, is that which is of itself. It is spontaneous. Everything grows and operates independently, on its own, but in harmony with all. THREE THE SERVANT-LEADER 39 The principle of wu wei, of not forcing things, is a natural corollary to this vision of the world.
Then Chirisophus’s men in the vanguard of the army were able to descend through the mountain pass into a fertile plain beside the Tigris. There they refreshed themselves before facing the fearsome rigours of a winter march amid the snow-covered Armenian highlands. Eventually, in the summer of the following year, the army reached the safety of the Hellespont, the narrow straits dividing Europe from Asia. They owed much to Xenophon who, not long afterwards, became the sole commander of the Ten Thousand.