Category Archives: Followership

He who…

cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader

– Aristotle

Of all sad…

… words of mouth or pen, the saddest are these: it might have been

– John Greenleaf Whittier

Taking charge of…

… your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person

– Warren G Bennis

Followership does not…

… mean changing the rank of followers but changing their response to their rank, their response to their superiors and to the situation at hand.”

— Barbara Kellerman

Effective leaders….

… allow great people to do the work they were born to do

– Warren G Bennis

If a man does…

… not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away

– Henry David Thoreau

You cannot be…

a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too

— Sam Rayburn

Impossible is just…

… a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than believe in the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact; It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration; It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing

– Muhammed Ali

Do what….

….. you can, with what you have, where you are.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Followers are…

… more important to leaders than leaders are to followers

–  Barbara Kellerman