John Wayne acted like a Leader

What an icon of leadership. Wayne is good for a lot of leadership oriented quotations. I know after a great acting career, he spent many years giving commencment addresses at graduations and universities. I'm sure some of this material comes from those speeches, but some comes from his movies too. He is a great character that we can all learn from. The following are some great quotes attributable to this desparato:

• Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway. John Wayne
  

• If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?' John Wayne

• If you've got them by the ['pportant appendage] their hearts and minds will follow. John Wayne
  
  
• Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid. John Wayne
  
  
• Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much. John Wayne
  
  
• Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday. John Wayne
  
  
• Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. John Wayne

Are you a Leader in Theory or in Practice?

Leadership development inevitably includes a discussion of both leadership theory and practice. But the past few weeks, I've observed a very interesting phenomenon in leaders that I work closely with: that many effective leaders tend to use primarily just one of the two skillsets, displaying very different styles of leadership. I've discovered that some tend to be what I call "Thinkerleaders" and others tend to be "Doerleaders".

To generalize, the Thinkerleaders seem to have the ability to communicate in terms of theories or "possibilities". These are the blue sky builders, idea-men; they are full of lots of insight and understanding about formulas and approaches I can take to help push the envelope of what is possible.

Doerleaders tend to be in-touch with the day-to-day challenges of execution and are very good at assessing risk in the execution of any given business plan, or strategy because they have hands-on knowlege and are willing to think about pros-and cons concurrently. Many times they've been in the trenches, and have sound knowlege of implementation steps and the ripple effects that result from a broken process and/or poor communication. They also often perhaps do not explore deeply, certain possibilities that they feel may include too much risk.

Thinkerleaders talk, and Doer leaders walk. Do you agree with this generalization -in general? Please read more....