Chapter 4. Leadership

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

—Peter F. Drucker, Father of Modern Management

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head; that’s assault, not leadership.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

The role of an architect is, by its very nature, founded upon the concept of leadership.

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