{"id":5704,"date":"2021-04-07T02:25:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T02:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5704"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:02","slug":"leadership-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5704","title":{"rendered":"LEADERSHIP LESSON"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The internet is littered with &#8220;leadership quotes&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I looked through some recently and found:<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. \u2014Max DePree<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You manage things; you lead people. \u2014Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. \u2014Jack Welch<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. \u2014John Maxwell<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. \u2014Peter Drucker<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230; and a million more.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve learned about leadership (mostly from watching other leaders), and it&#8217;s not going to appear on a motivational poster:<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;When you step into leadership, a huge target gets painted on your back.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Does that strike you as overly cynical? Or realistic?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The internet is littered with &#8220;leadership quotes&#8221;.\u00a0 I looked through some recently and found: The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. \u2014Max DePree You manage things; you lead people. \u2014Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper Before you are a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5705,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704\/revisions\/5705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}