A Quote by Colin Powell
Respect for leaders by followers can't be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.
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Not many of us will be leaders; and even those who are leaders must also be followers much of the time. This is the crucial role. Followers judge leaders. Only if the leaders pass that test do they have any impact. The potential followers, if their judgment is poor, have judged themselves. If the leader takes his or her followers to the goal, to great achievements, it is because the followers were capable of that kind of response.
The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers. ... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.
The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.
the best leaders try to train their followers themselves to become leaders. ... they wish to be leaders of leaders.
Leaders are leaders only as long as they have the respect and loyalty of their followers.
Leaders evoke emotional connections in followers only to the extent that the followers are emotionally needy.
A leader's job is to develop committed followers. Bad leaders destroy their followers' sense of commitment.
All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing. Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders. You have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.
Trust is perhaps the most critical single building block underlying effectiveness. Without trust leaders do not have followers. Without trust, leaders are impotent despite great rhetoric or splendid ideas. Trust rests on the belief among followers that the leader is transparent: What you see is what there is. Trust means followers believe there is no duplicity; no manipulation just to satisfy the leader's ego. Very simply: The effective leader is transparent; that's why that person is trusted.
Leaders have followers. The primary role of a leader is to convey to those followers a sense of purpose, vision, and mission.
There are leaders and there are followers. Followers follow leaders and leaders follow their heart
The new leader is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change.
..leaders should be looked upon as being 'in front', 'sharing' rather than 'showing' the way... it is the followers who save leaders and therefore make them.
Leaders must live by higher standards than their followers.
If you can raise up leaders, you will always have followers, but if you can't raise up leaders, you will only have followers.
Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe the leader will own it.
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