James Hunter
James Hunter
Grammy Award-winning British soul and R&B singer who has worked as a solo artist as well as with Howlin' Wilf & The Veejays.
ProfessionSoul Singer
Date of Birth2 October 1962
responsibility rights leader
It is a shame that so many leaders spend their time pondering their rights as leaders instead of their awesome responsibilities as leaders.
want needs servant-leadership
Slaves do what others want. Servants do what others need.
people leader never-forget
we must never forget that people buy into the leader before they buy into a mission statement.
self joy servant-leadership
Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.
letting-go leader forgiving
Forgiving behavior is dealing with situations as they arise in an assertive manner and then letting go of any lingering resentment. As the leader, if you are not able to let go of the resentment, it will consume you and render you ineffective.
liars people leader
...leaders who do not hold their people accountable to a set standard are, in effect, thieves and liars. Thieves because they are stealing from the stockholder who pays them to hold people accountable, and liars because they pretend that everything is OK with their people when in fact everything is not OK.
leader servant-leadership servant
Who then is the greatest leader? The one who has served the most.
garden leader growth
As leaders we do not create growth. The best we can do is create an environment that is conducive to growth. It is like planting a garden. You do not cause the seeds to grow. To grow is their natural purpose in life.
company nice purpose sole
The sole purpose of the company was getting me recorded. It was extraordinarily nice of them.
difficult flattering object
Those comparisons are so ludicrously flattering that they are difficult to object to.
call modern music retro
I'd just call it modern music done in a retro way, that's all.
objection
Most people's objection was that I was in my 40s. There was nothing I could really do about that.
bit coolest dragged finally found girlfriend moments outside picture pilgrimage second sonny tenor town until
I have an old picture of Sonny Til and the second tenor from the Orioles outside the Earle Theatre. It was such an atmospheric picture, I dragged my girlfriend around town on a bit of a pilgrimage until I finally found it. That was one of my coolest moments so far.
bubbling career edge excitement kept quite seemed twenty
It seemed like my career was always on the edge of something. Twenty years of bubbling under and not quite erupting kept up the excitement for me, I guess.