Tag Archives: Followership

There are two…

… ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish

– Warren G. Bennis

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

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