Too many people talking about “leadership” talk only in terms of change.  They measure leadership by all they change.

However, sometimes leadership means, and the tougher task of leadership is, resisting change.  For not all change is beneficial, and not all change is progress.  Sometimes the needed leadership is saying “no.”

Sometimes the best leadership is saying “no.”

Great Britain’s former Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has said:  “The art of leadership is not saying ‘yes,’ it’s saying ‘no.’”

Mahatma Gandhi once said:  “A ‘no’ uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a ‘yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.”