Tag Archives: Truth

I don’t want…

…any “yes-men” around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs

– Samuel Goldwyn

What makes a…

good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not. Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination

~ Warren G. Bennis

The best people…

…. possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed

– Ernest Hemingway

If I had to…

… reduce the responsibilities of a good follower to a single rule, it would be to speak truth to power

– Warren Bennis