No authentic leader lacks manners.

The moments I am a poor leader are the moments I am selfish.

Perfection murders progress, learning, and most devastatingly, leadership.

Authentic leaders do not seek failures, but expect them.

The best leaders don’t have a specific personality; they are authentic to the personality they own and seek to improve it daily.

Lack of patience leads to leadership being completely out of touch with their employees and blinded to what is really going on.

The crux of authentic leadership is to work on oneself, all the while extending the same flexibility and forgiveness to others.

Authentic leaders work to become self-aware of their faults and then fill positions on their team with those who can compensate.

Authentic leaders understand that without intentional recharging productivity wanes and engagement suffers.

Authentic leaders seek ways to be with their team members who are struggling with child care needs.

Authentic leaders make a lot of mistakes. Not intentionally, of course, but they do. Because they try. And then they learn.

Authentic leaders realize it is paramount to create a political environment in which everyone is served at the level they find themselves.

An authentic leader realizes their worth outside of position.

An authentic leader, instead of striving for the supremacy, will seek an understanding heart, to discern between right and wrong.

Greatness never comes from one person doing all the work. Ever.

When leaders fail to consistently uphold standards, employees lose motivation to engage.

The nucleus of leadership is simple: pay attention to others and respond to their needs.

A symbiotic relationship takes intentional, intense, and sometimes messy work to be successful.

An authentic leader works to be with their team and those around them for the betterment of all. Not to simply be commensal.

Regardless of the position a person is called to fill, his or her judgment is not to be regarded as unerring.