Quotes About Followership

Real change rarely comes from the front of the line. It happens from the middle or even the back. Real change happens when someone who cares steps up and takes what feels like a risk. People follow because they want to, not because you can order them to.

Great leaders create movements by empowering the tribe to communicate. They establish the foundation for people to make connections, as opposed to commanding people to follow them.

If everyone tries to lead all the time, not much happens.

Remember that it is far better to follow well than to lead indifferently.

You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.

The time has come when the whole world must be concerned about me. From now on, American Christianity must follow me.

La folla è un gregge che non può fare a meno di un padrone».

People are just more willing to follow someone they like and trust.

If you lead, we'll be behind you, one House leader said, but we'll be way behind you.

Focusing on effective leadership without focusing on a willingness to follow is like studying clapping by studying only the left hand.

leadership can only be understood as the complement of followership.45 Focusing on leadership alone is like trying to understand clapping by studying only the left hand. They point out that leadership is not even the more interesting hand; it's no puzzle to understand why people want to lead. The real puzzle is why people are willing to follow.

leadership can only be understood as the complement of followership.45 Focusing on leadership alone is like trying to understand clapping by studying only the left hand.

What the country faces is not a crisis of leadership but a crisis of followership.

Uncritical followership and habits of silent obedience give rise to the corruptions of power, or sometimes simply to avoidable catastrophes. For

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

If people are really narcissistic or have a need to be seen as more than they really are, or to be admired as having it all together, then they cannot be followed and trusted by others.

Germans followed far too easily. Only a few dared to lead with all of the others, like ants in the mound, blindly fell into line.

If I am the leader of my Clan, and my word is law, why should I concern myself with what my Clanmates think? My duty is to lead them; theirs is to follow.

The Christian life is not about leadership but "followership," not about becoming more and more but less and less.

It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead.

Passionless leaders cost everyone who follows them.

The first follower is what transforms the lone nut into a leader," and in a startup, that first follower is usually a cofounder.

the first follower is what transforms the lone nut into a leader.

They who set an example make a highway. Others follow the example, because it is easier to travel on a highway than over untrodden grounds.