Take charge. To lead. Time is of the essence. The fish rots from the head.

“A leader is a dealer in hope.” -Napoleon Bonaparte

“A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” -Arnold H. Glasow

“A leader is admired, a boss is feared.” -Vicente del Bosque

“The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers he gives, but by the questions he asks.” -Simon Sinek

“Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I’ll show you a poorly uniformed leader.” -Robert Baden-Powell

“A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.” -Ralph Nader

“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” -Henry Kissinger

“A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn’t go by yourself.” -Joel A. Barker

“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” -Jack Welch

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” -John C. Maxwell

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
-John Quincy Adams

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
-Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Leaders instill in their people a hope for success and a belief in themselves. Positive leaders empower people to accomplish their goals.”

“The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.”
-Theodore M. Hesburgh

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
-John F. Kennedy

“A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.”
-Jim Rohn

“The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.”
-John Maxwell

There were three reactions to the student going off topic and talking about real problems at the University. The first was to try and talk over and louder than the student, the second was to block the student and push him away from the microphone and the third was to let the student speak, which is what happened.