If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
No one really wants to follow you per se. They really don’t. They want to know that, by following you, they are… — Mel Lawrenz Copy Share Image
The ability to make hard truths palatable is one that every long-lived co-leader has mastered. — David A. Heenan Copy Share Image
“Leadership obeys the principle of Hooke's law to the very bone. It explains: When an elastic material is stretched, it returns to… — Richmond Akhigbe Copy Share Image
Learning the secrets and skill of great No.2s remains the surest path to becoming No. 1. — David A. Heenan Copy Share Image
Leadership requires followership and following is an act of trust, faith in the course of the leader, and that faith can be… — Lawrence M. Miller Copy Share Image
From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top. — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
My name should not be made prominent. It is my ideas that I want to see realized. The disciples of all the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
True leadership must have follower-ship. Management styles can vary, but even an autocrat needs people who believe and simply don't follow from… — James D. Robinson III Copy Share Image
If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Mr. Bush has squandered the hard-built paternity of 40 years. But so has the party, and so have its leaders. If they… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
We don't have a crisis of leadership in Washington. We have a crisis of followership. — Jonathan Rauch Copy Share Image
A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
If I had to reduce the responsibilities of a good follower to a single rule, it would be to speak truth to… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
