real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
– Doris Lessing
Tag Archives: Followership
If you want to…..
….. build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Good leadership……
……. is largely invisible.
– Brian Herbert & Kevin Anderson
What lies behind us…..
…….. and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
No general can…..
……. fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
– Philip Armour
There is a…..
….. troublesome humour some men have, that if they may not lead, they will not follow; but had rather a thing were never done, than not done their own way, tho’ other ways very desirable.
– William Penn
He who has…..
…….. learned how to obey will know how to command.
– Solon
Control is …..
….. not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50 percent of your time leading yourself–your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. Invest at least 20 percent leading those with authority over you and 15 percent leading your peers. If you don’t understand that you work for your mislabeled ‘subordinates,’ then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.
– Dee Hock
Those who are ….
….. successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity was not likely to be troublesome on any occasion; but then they betrayed their own interests by unwisely omitting the consideration, that such feelings might exist in the breasts of those whom they had to guide and govern: for they themselves cannot even remember the time when in their eyes justice appeared preferable to expediency, the happiness of others to self-interest, or the welfare of a State to the advancement of a party.
– Arthur Helps
The final test…..
….. of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
– Walter Lippmann
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