“Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.”
Managing, Chapter Six (Leadership), p. 99.
Don Soderquist “ The Wal-Mart Way: The Inside Story of the Success of the World's Largest Company https://books.google.com/books?id=mIxwVLXdyjQC&lpg=PR9&dq=Don%20Soderquist&pg=PR9#v=onepage&q=Don%20Soderquist&f=false, Thomas Nelson, April 2005, p. 9.
On Leading Well
“Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.”
Managing, Chapter Six (Leadership), p. 99.
“Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have.”
Kitchen Confidential (2000)
Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
“Relational skills are the most important abilities in leadership.”
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
Variant: Responsibility is the most important ability that a person can possess.
Source: Developing the Leaders Around You: How to Help Others Reach Their Full Potential
University of Colorado Leeds School of Business Commencement Address (2013)
Helen D. Hume (2010) The Art Teacher's Book of Lists. p. 304.
“Saying no is its own leadership capability. It is not just a peripheral skill.”
Popular Quotes, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, Twitter
(1921, p. 10); Diemer quotes the ASCM committee
Factory organization and administration, 1910
“A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.”
A Poet's Advice (1958)
Context: Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel …
the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.
To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.