… careless about basic things – telling the truth, respecting moral codes, proper professional conduct – who can believe them on other issues?
– James L Hayes
Category Archives: Followership
The idea of…
… a merit rating is alluring. The sound of the words captivates the imagination: pay for what you get; get what you pay for; motivate people to do their best, for their own good. The effect is exactly the opposite of what the words promise
– W Edward Deming
Change will not…
… come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek
– Barack Obama
Try not…
…to become a man of success but a man of value
– Albert Einstein
To get others…
…. to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead
– William Hazlitt
I don’t know…
… what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
– Albert Schweitzer
Leadership consists…
… not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint
– Lewis H. Lapham
If you…
… believe lack of authority prevents you from leading effectively, it is time to rethink your understanding of leadership
– Mike Bonem and Roger Patterson
Courage is…
…. the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others
– Winston Churchill
The price…
… of excellence is discipline; the cost of mediocrity is disappointment
– William Arthur Ward
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