Quotes About Followership

If you wouldn't follow yourself, why should anyone else?

When people follow a leader because they have to, they will do only what they have to. People don't give their best to leaders they like least. They give reluctant compliance, not commitment. They may give their hands but certainly not their heads or hearts.

Only a leader who has followed well knows how to lead others well. Good leadership requires an understanding of the world that followers live in. Connecting with your people becomes possible because you have walked in their shoes. You know what it means to be under authority and thus have a better sense of how authority should be exercised. In contrast, leaders who have never followed well or submitted to authority tend to be prideful, unrealistic, rigid, and autocratic. "Civilization

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

People who think they're leading but have no one following them are only taking a walk.

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

Being put in charge is not the same as being a leader.

El que piensa que dirige y no tiene a nadie siguiéndole, sólo está dando un paseo.

Leading from behind doesn't work.

I don't see myself as a leader, I just feel that everything I say, people are listening and people are doing.

Little leading makes much following.

Cooperation with others. Perception, experience, tenacity. Know when to lead and when to follow.

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

You don't get people to follow you by demanding it with your words. You do it by commanding it with your example.

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men, the other 999 follow women.

A leader who cannot shoulder the blame is not someone we will follow blindly into battle. We instinctively question that individual's character, dependability, and loyalty to us. And so we hold back on our loyalty to him or her.

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

Io non ci ho mai tenuto a diventare un capo" rispose Grania. "Sono sempre andata dove volevo andare, e quando mi guardavo indietro vedevo che gli altri mi stavano seguendo.

It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one. Those who have followed the assertive idiot rather than the introspective wise person have passed us some of their genes. This is apparent from a social pathology: psychopaths rally followers.

un líder es como un pastor que permanece detrás del rebaño y permite que los más ágiles vayan por delante, tras lo cual, los demás les siguen sin darse cuenta de que en todo momento están siendo dirigidos desde detrás.

Men are loyal when you lead from the front.

and immediately they left the boat and their father and followed Him.

And at once they left their nets and followed Him.