Top 9 Followership Quotes & Sayings

If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership.

I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.

Leadership requires followership and following is an act of trust, faith in the course of the leader, and that faith can be generated only if leaders act with integrity.

Mr. Bush has squandered the hard-built paternity of 40 years. But so has the party, and so have its leaders. If they had pushed away for serious reasons, they could have separated the party's fortunes from the president's. This would have left a painfully broken party, but they wouldn't be left with a ruined brand,- as they all say, speaking the language of marketing. And they speak that language because they are marketers, not thinkers. Not serious about policy. Not serious about ideas. And not serious about leadership, only followership.

No one really wants to follow you per se. They really don’t. They want to know that, by following you, they are really following a higher principle, a transcendent truth. In spiritual followership, people want to know whether they are being led and influenced by God.

I wanted to be a veterinarian and go to school in Boston. It didn't quite work out that way, and I ended up joining the Navy as a suggestion of my big brother. It was really awesome - and I didn't realize it at the time, -but provided a lot of leadership and followership teamwork opportunities.

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

Building followership and inspiration around female leadership is quite difficult to do.

We don't have a crisis of leadership in Washington. We have a crisis of followership.