Tag Archives: Followership

Leadership is…..

…… the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.

– Bill Hybels

True leadership…..

…. cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned. It comes only from influence, and that can’t be mandated. It must be earned.

– John Maxwell

Leadership is not….

…… a starring role. True leadership describes unified action of leaders and followers working together to jointly achieve mutual goals. It is collaborative.

– Gilbert Fairholm

Great leaders inspire…..

….. they maintain a hopeful attitude, even in the face of discouraging setbacks, constant criticism and abundant opposition. People don’t follow discouraged leaders. They follow those who persist with hope.

– Rick Warren

The leader continually……

……. passes on the vision to those who come around, knowing that dreams, if presented right, are contagious.

– John C. Maxwell

Life is the leader’s…..

……laboratory, and exemplary leaders use it to conduct as many experiments as possible. Try, fail, learn. Try, fail, learn. Try, fail, learn. That’s the leader’s mantra. Leaders are learners. They learn from their failures as well as their successes, and they make it possible for others to do the same.

 – James Kouzes & Barry Posner

Perhaps those who are ….

…..best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who … have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.

– J K Rowling

Leadership is defined …..

….. not by the scale of the opportunity but by the quality of the response.

– Chris Lowney

“I must…..

….. follow the people. Am I not their leader?”

– Benjamin Disraeli

Do not follow…..

…….. where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

– Harold McAlindon