Exceptional Leadership Inspires the Best Effort in Others

Musings on leadership from the Leaders on Leadership blog.

Their masthead quote is a thought provoking quote from that often-quoted President, Theodore Roosevelt: "People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. . . . The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives."

Check out the entry titled "Exceptional Leadership Inspires the Best Effort in Others. Exceptional leadership, therefore, is leadership that inspires people to give their best effort. Although, for a leader, being productive and having good time management skills are important and necessary, they are not sufficient. Having good judgment becomes increasingly important the higher in an organization we rise, however it too is insufficient for truly effective leadership. Exceptional leadership is about relating to people in such a way as to inspire them to give their best effort – for themselves, their organization, their community, their family, and/or their world."

Think about of board of education, our borough council, and our other leaders. How many of them are leaders, and how many of them are drivers?