Quotes About Followership

Our sense of identity is in large measure conferred on us by others in the ways they treat or mistreat us, recognize or ignore us, praise us or punish us. Some people make us timid and shy; others elicit our sex appeal and dominance. In some groups we are made leaders, while in others we are reduced to being followers. We come to live up to or down to the expectations others have of us.

Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.

If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.

True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.

The only test of leadership is that somebody follows.

A good leader makes a good follower.

If you think you're a leader and you turn around and no one is following you, then you're simply out for a walk.

He that thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk.

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

The first follower is actually an underestimated form of leadership in itself. … The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader.

Real leadership is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow.

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.

True leadership must have follower-ship. Management styles can vary, but even an autocrat needs people who believe and simply don't follow from fear.

I must follow them. I am their leader.

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

The crowd will follow a leader who marches twenty paces ahead of them, but if he is a thousand paces ahead of them, they will neither see nor follow him.

The leader finds the dream and then the people. The people find the leader and then the dream.

To lead people, you must follow behind.

Christ manifests his divine leadership in your sincere followership. Christ's followers become true leaders because Christ is the model of true leadership.

You cannot lead those who do not want to follow.

You cannot lead and follow a herd at the same time.

I've got to follow them - I am their leader.

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

Senior management is simply a flag bearer when a business decision is made. It is of no use unless others follow the flag. —Eiji Toyoda, former chairman of Toyota