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Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other. -- Stephen Covey
Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure. -- John C. Maxwell
The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure... It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies. -- Barack Obama
The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt. -- Barack Obama
Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. -- Peter Senge
The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country. -- Ed Case
The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination. -- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven from the top are marginally effective - at best. -- Peter Senge
Lead yourself whenever your boss' leadership deteriorates. When your boss doesn't praise what you do, praise yourself. When your boss doesn't make you big, make yourself big. Remember, if you have done your best, failure does not count. -- Mario Teguh
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. -- Colin Powell
Entrepreneurialism, to me, means being able to fail. And I believe that kind of leadership is not necessary only in business, but it's necessary for running countries, too. You've got to be able to believe in something strongly enough that you want to do it even if there's a risk of failure. -- Bernard L. Schwartz
If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The most serious failure of leadership is the failure to foresee -- Robert K. Greenleaf
The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership, -- Chinua Achebe
Sometimes we shrink from leadership because our pride makes us afraid of failure. That's not humility. -- Francis Chan
The learning person looks forward to failure or mistakes. The worst problem in leadership is basically early success. -- Warren G. Bennis
... the truth is that when your people don't tell you what you need to know, it's a failure of leadership. -- Jack McDevitt
The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination. -- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Jeremy Corbyn had shown a catastrophic failure of leadership and must step down to make way for someone with the backbone to confront racism and anti-Semitism. -- Ruth Smeeth

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