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.

The quote defines leadership as developmental rather than positional: the leader’s job is to elevate performance across the whole group. It rejects a narrow focus on “fixing problems” (only attending to low performers) and instead insists that high performers also need challenge, feedback, and opportunities to grow. Implicitly, it treats people as capable of improvement and views organizational success as the cumulative result of individual progress. The statement also suggests a balanced ethic: compassion and support for those struggling, paired with ambition and higher standards for those already succeeding. Leadership, in this view, is measured by the growth it produces in others.