Reuel J. Khoza Quotes

b. 1949

Reuel Jethro Khoza (born 1949) is a South African businessman, author and leadership thinker known for his work on African humanism, Ubuntu, corporate governance and ethical leadership.

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"The power to lead is the product of support for a person whose actions bespeak solidarity with the needs and aspirations of the many."

"Leaders are not just born to the role. They are born, then made—and sometimes unmade—by their own actions."

"Leadership is about sense and sensing, about thought and feeling, about insight into and harmony with the followership."

"The leader cannot stand alone but must stand with the followers."

"Trust is earned through alignment with followers."

"Leadership is relational, not positional."

Reuel Jethro Khoza discussing the relational nature of leadership in Attuned Leadership (2011)

"An ethic of service lies at the heart of Attuned Leadership."

"Connectedness, compassion, integrity, humility, reasonableness and the determination to be effective predicated on knowledgeability are the keys to attuned leadership."

"A leader who is not in tune with the followership soon becomes a leader in limbo."

"Ubuntu posits a collective existence."

"Leadership is achieved, not given."

"If you want to achieve in life, you cannot allow yourself to be part of the human flotsam in a sea of circumstances. You've got to be goal-directed. You've got to head in a given direction and marshal all the forces to support that."

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Reuel J. Khoza (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.