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If you are someone who dislikes, condemns and rejects new ideas, you aren’t fit to lead.Israelmore Ayivor
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You can’t give what you don’t have. To lead people in a better way, mingle with them in body. But in knowledge, be far ahead of them!Israelmore Ayivor
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A leader’s meal is that unstoppable desire to stay late to see his dreams achieved. They never give up.Israelmore Ayivor
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A leader’s goal is to remain relevant even when time changes.Israelmore Ayivor
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If you hate to think, you are not different from some who is peeing on his academic certificates. The goal of education is to help you to think and lead.Israelmore Ayivor
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You can be in your room and lead people. Just develop your potentials and publicize them and you will see people looking for your product. That is influenceIsraelmore Ayivor
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Self-leaders are still true leaders even if they have no known followers. True leaders inspire by the influence of their characters and general self-made brands. Leadership is defined by the virtues of one's behaviour.Israelmore Ayivor
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Self-leaders do not look for followers because they are busily pursuing their influencial dreams that followers will trace and ask for. Followers look for influence and that can be obtained from self-leaders.Israelmore Ayivor
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A young child is a leader to an elderly person once his purpose has a faithful, sincere and trustworthy influence on people. Leadership is not restricted to position and age; it is self-made and influencial. Everyone has this self-leadership quality.Israelmore Ayivor
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The concept of leadership is abused by people who think a person becomes a leader when he grows grey hair, put into a position and expected to function. Everyone has a leadership potential carried within in a specific area of his or purpose. Leadership is universal and built on trust.Israelmore Ayivor
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You can’t wake up one day and suddenly become a leader. You first discover that specific thing God created you for, develop it into something specific that the world will need, and then you have already leading started leading.Israelmore Ayivor
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Leaders say "no" to corruption. Anyone playing a role in governance, and is not ready to do this is not a leader.Israelmore Ayivor
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It is as simple as that. Birds fly because they have wings and so when you can’t grow the wings, you can’t be called a bird. Leaders make impacts because they create new ideas and so if you can’t think of any new innovative ideas, you can’t be a leader.Israelmore Ayivor
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Until you fall in love with positive change, becoming passionate about improving the status quo, you won’t become a leader.Israelmore Ayivor
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Contrary to popular opinion, leadership is not a reserved position for a particular group of people who were elected or appointed, ordained or enthroned. Leadership is self-made, self-retained, self-inculcated and then exposed through a faithful, sincere and examplary life.Israelmore Ayivor
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A true leader is still a leader even when he takes up servants' duty, provided he maintains a human face and added integrity to his self-retained qualities.Israelmore Ayivor
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You can lead if you can serve. You can serve when you can love. You can love when you are graced. The truth is that God knows love will be needed in volumes, this is why he made his grace abundant. Leaders are lovers. Misleaders are haters!Israelmore Ayivor
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If you are an aspiring leader and you have not yet gone through any trouble, prepare for one. It is by going through the hard times that you become harder against the storms of life.Israelmore Ayivor
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Leadership is about taking people from a good place to a better place where they would not regret to be.Israelmore Ayivor
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A leader is a thorn in the flesh of oppressive people. They never feel comfortable when a leader stands up.Israelmore Ayivor
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A leader’s goal is to improve on upon the past and if your goal is to remain where you are, doing the same things you have done times and times again, you can’t lead.Israelmore Ayivor
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It is not just about what you can do that will make you a leader. It is about how well you can do it.Israelmore Ayivor
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Self-leadership is about digging out your hidden endowment and making them known and useful to those who need it most.Israelmore Ayivor
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Live an exemplary life as a leader. When you are gone, you will still lead from the grave because your influence, impacts and inspirations will become and information for the living.Israelmore Ayivor
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Leaders know where they can function better. They don’t cry over what they cannot do.Israelmore Ayivor
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Who you are when you have no power to say anything, and who you become when you have power to say everything will determine whether you are a leader or not.Israelmore Ayivor
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Management informs. Leadership applies. The effective managers inform accurately. Effective leaders apply wisely.Israelmore Ayivor
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Everyone in the organizations is very important. From the sweeper to the security officer; from the messenger to the manager, everyone doing well at his post is a leader. The organization becomes a leading one when it’s made up of people leading in their roles.Israelmore Ayivor
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Bridges take people across rivers. Leaders take people across ignorance. With a leader, the destination of a journey is sure.Israelmore Ayivor
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People either build a castle or a dungeon. The former by their virtues, pull people into positive edifices with gainful impression. The later by their vices, push people into negative huts with painful oppression.Israelmore Ayivor
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Words do less than 10 things, but actions do more than 10 thousand things. Leaders don’t talk in vain; they follow with actions.Israelmore Ayivor
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Leaders find something to die for, not something to live on. If you haven't found something to die for yet, you can't lead.Israelmore Ayivor
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Teamwork is the best ever investment. If I make 3 and you make 5, together we will not make 8. We will make 15. Leaders build active teams.Israelmore Ayivor
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Leaders motivate people to understand that they can do better than they’ve already done and go farther than they’ve reached.Israelmore Ayivor
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Leaders do not die with their music on their tongues unsung. They provide services that make them unleash their God-given potentials!Israelmore Ayivor
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When the positive mind takes the lead, the legs are safe to follow without any shaking!Israelmore Ayivor
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You may abuse your energy when you do not know what it is meant to help you carry. An undiscovered self is an easy way to rob the world of leadership impacts.Israelmore Ayivor
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You are likely to lose the heat of your passion irrespective of how hot it was when you surrender yourself to a leader with lukewarm attitude.Israelmore Ayivor
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You can’t perform well in what you don’t love to do well. You can lead in what you can’t perform well. To lead well, be sure where you are, is where you supposed to be!Israelmore Ayivor
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Environment provides us with many cultures. From each we identify our beliefs that give us our values. From our values we pick up our choices and our choices bring out our character. Our characters make us to lead!Israelmore Ayivor
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As a leader, you have to disbelieve what you can’t do. It’s by so doing that you can believe in what you can do. It’s only by disbelieving that it can fly that the horse keeps galloping!Israelmore Ayivor
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Leader discover themselves through a continuous fellowship and relationship with their sources of their life and wisdom. Self-discovery is the key to true leadership!Israelmore Ayivor
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Your vehicle of leadership is fueled by your willingness to learn. You can't lead if you can't learn!Israelmore Ayivor
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Before someone will get the guts to monitor your life, he must get the keyboard of humility. To be a humble person, is a priority in leadership!Israelmore Ayivor
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The major factor that makes a great leader to fail emerge from the decision of people who surround him/her.Israelmore Ayivor
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You can’t lead people to where you’ve not been yourself. When you all get stranded, you need the knowledge of someone who knows the way!Israelmore Ayivor
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Leadership is an art expressed by the demonstration of characters worthy of immitation, emulation and inspiration. It is neither a title nor a postion.Israelmore Ayivor
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Leadership potential is in everyone; we all have it, but we all don't know it until we have a direct individual encounter with the Holy Spirit of God. The principal source of leadership influence is the Holy Spirit.Israelmore Ayivor
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A mere motivator sees potentials in people and tells them to take actions. A true leader sees the same potentials in the same people and influences them to optimize them under his God-lead inspirations.Israelmore Ayivor
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It is not about whether you call yourself a leader or not. It is about what you have to show to people as a leader. Leadership is contagious, you carry it and share it.Israelmore Ayivor
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Every true leader is in the business of God. The good news is that God’s business does not yield loses. Most leaders fail because they claim to be in a business whose owner they never know!Israelmore Ayivor
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You remain a follower for life when you pay for what people do while nobody pays you for what you do. Do something impressive and become a leader!Israelmore Ayivor
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If you haven’t found yourself yet, it’s difficult to help someone to discover himself. False leaders make more false leaders!Israelmore Ayivor
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It’s unfair to see managers buying brand new cars for themselves when the salaries of their workers still remain unpaid! Good leaders are not selfish thinkers!Israelmore Ayivor
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Leadership is about inspiration with character, not manipulation with position!Israelmore Ayivor
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The reason why nothing happens is because nothing was done. Something will happen when something is done. Leaders take actions!Israelmore Ayivor
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The worst ever offence you can commit against your time is to think that “time spent making plans is time being wasted! ” Leaders don’t think that way!Israelmore Ayivor
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To a leader, reputation is an option, but true character is a necessity!Israelmore Ayivor
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Honour comes and goes, influence comes and stays, but none of them safeguards us against danger than the mentor of true leadership; Jesus Christ!Israelmore Ayivor
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Never be anxious about maintaining the position you occupy. Be anxious about maintaining your good character and you will never lose your leadership influence!Israelmore Ayivor
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Leaders don’t settle for less. When you do so, you rob humanity of what you are supposed to deliver!Israelmore Ayivor
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You break the legs of your leadership chair when you chase after other people’s assignments instead of pursing yours!Israelmore Ayivor
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Service introduces you to the leadership throne. Service to mankind is the vision on which leadership is mounted. You serve and in your service, you train more leaders by becoming an example!Israelmore Ayivor
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The bottom line is that you can’t lead the person you can’t serve!Israelmore Ayivor
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There is greatness in everyone already. The job of the leader is not to put greatness in anyone. The job of the leader is to make people discover and exploit the greatness already existing in them!Israelmore Ayivor
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Leaders fail when they begin to fall in love with negative mindsets of other people!Israelmore Ayivor
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True leaders are ready to sweat when making rehearsal, than to cry tears when actually practicing. To save the tears, be ready to sweat!Israelmore Ayivor
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Leadership is not a raw gift given to a group of people. It is the product of any type of gift everyone one has. It therefore means, any kind of gift is a leadership gift!Israelmore Ayivor
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To know the purpose of a product, you must pay attention to what the manufacturer said about it. What God said about you is that you must have dominion over all other creation. Just pay attention and take the lead!Israelmore Ayivor
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Sometimes it is difficult to different between leaders and misleaders. However, with the measurement of true service to mankind, the evidence is very clear!Israelmore Ayivor
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The fact that a seed is viable is not a proof that it’s going to bear good fruits. Some good seeds are destroyed by bad soils. So is leadership; everyone was born to lead, but not all become leaders!Israelmore Ayivor
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Everyone can be a leader irrespective of their age, race, creed, nationality or political affiliation. Once you can figure out your talents and optimize them very well, at the right place and at the right time, you are a leader.Israelmore Ayivor
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Leadership is built on true character! You lose your leadership when you fake your character. The degree of leadership potential a person can expose will depend on how potent he can maintain his true character!Israelmore Ayivor
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Good leaders always bring about transformation... Bad leaders only maintain and preserve long standing mediocrity!Israelmore Ayivor
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One of the most common areas where we fail is when we begin to think that genetic make-up of a person determines how far he can lead". Leadership is learnt and practiced!Israelmore Ayivor
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A leader without a clear vision and plans only abuses his power because visions, dreams and plans are the fulcrum along which the loads of success will spine by your own efforts. And where power is abused, there is manipulation instead of inspiration.Israelmore Ayivor
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If the problems you have this year are the same problems you had last year, then you are not a leader. You are rather a problem on your own that must be solved.Israelmore Ayivor
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Yes. Oh no! I don't subject myself to a leadership that does not break new territories! It is the job of leadership to succeed in landing its limbs on new grounds.Israelmore Ayivor
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Authority confined in you does not make you a leader. It is the authority created by you that makes you influence people with your purpose.Israelmore Ayivor
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Ballot papers do not define leaders. Leadership is defined by conviction, vision, passion and inspiration.Israelmore Ayivor
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Your title is what you are; your visions are who you are. When you know who you are, then you will know where you can be useful most.Israelmore Ayivor
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The fact that people are in positions does not justify the means that they are leaders. A leader can be blind and to know this, check his sense of vision.Israelmore Ayivor
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A “self-leader” is the positively influence you have on yourself and on others without any influence with your titles and positions. You must be able to lead yourself before you can lead others.Israelmore Ayivor
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Nobody is rewarded for occupying a position, but for becoming effective in the position occupied. If you occupy a position, you must have the weight of influence in order to matter!Israelmore Ayivor