1. THEODORE ROOSEVELT ON LEADERSHIP Responsibility

2. Responsible Leadership I Leaders should focus all energy on the job at hand, without regard to their own future prospects. –Greater service in the present. –More worthy of future leadership. Seek leadership on their own terms. Leaders should visibly love their people more than their own positions. –Prove love through actions.

3. Responsible Leadership II The key to leadership is commitment to service. –Build a life based on service. –Avoid a career based on advancing up a series of positions. Leaders should seek to deserve success, not seek success.

4. LEADER AS TEACHER AND LEARNER Leader must continue to learn if he/she is to be able to teach. –Seek information, knowledge, and experience wherever it can be found. Strive for balanced mental and spiritual nourishment. Develop powers of observation and listening. –Yields insight.

5. LEADERS AND MISTAKES Choose to interpret mistakes and misfortunes and move on. –Do not dwell on them. Mistakes are learning opportunities. Acknowledge errors and apologize. –Move on One should not dwell on a misfortune or unavoidable mistake, where nothing can be done to rectify the situation. Renewed action can establish a boundary separating the past from the present and future.

6. LEADERSHIP AND ACTION Intelligent forethought and decisive action. –Hallmark of effective leadership. Forethought is the raw material of decision making. Advance the goals of those whom the leader serves. Action gives example. –Most potent of all things. –An almost infinite reach across space and time.